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Job overview
Are you a passionate midwife dedicated to making a difference to our families with complex social needs?
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Midwife to join our complex social factors team here at The Royal London Hospital. The role involves championing the welfare of women, babies and their families when they need it most.
You need to have a passion for complex social factors and be committed to ensuring safeguarding procedures are adhered to in the clinical setting. You must also be able to lead teaching sessions, share learning, empower colleagues and consider refreshing ways to improve safeguarding training compliance across maternity.
The applicant must also be confident in their safeguarding knowledge in order to support and advise appropriately, while working in line with local and national standards.
You will provide woman focused and family centered midwifery care within a community and hospital setting. You’ll work in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary teams, enhancing and promoting the health, wellbeing and safeguarding of mothers and their babies.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is the Specialist Safeguarding Midwife based at The Royal London Hospital. The post holder will be supported by a team of midwives who provide enhanced midwifery care to vulnerable families to ensure safety and compassion during their pregnancy journey.
The Specialist Midwife for Safeguarding will support all activities necessary in maternity services to ensure that the organisation meets its responsibilities to safeguard and protect children and young people.
The Midwife will identify and co-ordinate the provision of multidisciplinary care for socially vulnerable women through support, advice and training for staff dealing with complex child protection issues. The post holder will provide high quality, effective midwifery care that is evidence based and woman centred.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Applying for this NHS job
This advert is for Specialist Midwife for Safeguarding Children with Barts Health NHS Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Midwife role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inc. The contract type is 10 months (Although this position is a 10 months fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 10 months.). The application deadline is 07 Jun 2026.
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