# Specialist Midwife for Safeguarding Children > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Barts Health NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-midwife-for-safeguarding-children/d7549ddf-52ea-4a9e-b839-9d2fe45840da - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-midwife-for-safeguarding-children/d7549ddf-52ea-4a9e-b839-9d2fe45840da.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Barts Health NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Midwife - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inc - **Contract type:** 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.) - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-07T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-22T11:21:16.408Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Barts_Health_NHS_Trust/Maternity/Maternity-v8032764 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8032764?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below. ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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. ## Responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge and understanding of Domestic Violence, including relevant legislation, national policy and professional standards - In depth understanding of the complexities related to child protection ### Experience **Essential** - Evidence of continuous professional development Knowledge and understanding of Statutory Midwifery Supervision - Significant experience in managing Child Protection issues - Experience of undertaking audits and implementing/monitoring action plans - Evidence of previous teaching experience - Experience in working closely with external partners, i.e. CCG and Local Authority in relation to safeguarding ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Midwife on NMC Register at band 6 or above - Supported Learning in the Clinical Environment - Relevant Child Protection training - Mentorship qualification **Desirable** - Safeguarding Supervision course attended ## Documents - [our values and behaviours (pdf, 334.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1119) - [candidate information pack (pdf, 549.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2446) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 832.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10320444) - [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 92.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1120) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.