Specialist Midwife for Vulnerable Women & Safeguarding

Job summary

**This vacancy is currently only open to Internal applicants from Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust**

We are seeking a motivated, enthusiastic, and experienced midwife with specialist knowledge in safeguarding to join our team as a Specialist Midwife for Vulnerable Women and Safeguarding.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in strengthening safeguarding practice and supporting birthing individuals and their families across Worcester and Malvern. You will be based within the Cathedral Community Midwives Team and work closely with the Named Midwife for Safeguarding, Named Doctor, Integrated Safeguarding Team, locality specialist midwives, and wider safeguarding partners.

Your work will be central to ensuring a safe, responsive, and robust safeguarding service, with a focus on protecting those most at risk of abuse and serious harm.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be a registered midwife with significant clinical experience
• Have extensive knowledge of safeguarding legislation, policies, and best practice
• Demonstrate experience working with vulnerable families and complex social situations
• Be confident engaging in multi-agency working and partnership collaboration
• Possess strong communication, leadership, and organisational skills
• Be passionate about improving outcomes for women, babies, and families

Main duties of the job

As a Specialist Midwife, you will:

Act as a visible and accessible safeguarding expert, supporting staff and promoting best practice across the organisation

Provide specialist advice and guidance to midwifery and multidisciplinary teams on safeguarding concerns

Embed the principles of Think Family and Safeguarding is Everyone's Business across all areas of practice

Work collaboratively with internal and external partners to ensure a coordinated, multi-agency safeguarding response

Deliver safeguarding supervision in line with Trust Policy and Procedure, supporting staff in managing complex and high-risk cases

Promote a culture of continuous learning, professional curiosity, and reflective practice

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Details

• Date posted: 10 July 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: C9365-26-0493
• Job locations: Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5 1DD, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose:

Act as a visible and accessible safeguarding expert, supporting staff and promoting best practice across the organisation

Provide specialist advice and guidance to midwifery and multidisciplinary teams on safeguarding concerns

Embed the principles of Think Family and Safeguarding is Everyones Business across all areas of practice.

Work collaboratively with internal and external partners to ensure a coordinated, multi-agency safeguarding response.

Deliver safeguarding supervision in line with Trust Policy and Procedure, supporting staff in managing complex and high-risk cases.

Promote a culture of continuous learning, professional curiosity, and reflective practice.

Act as a visible, accessible safeguarding expert, providing leadership, support, and promoting best practice across the organisation.

Deliver specialist safeguarding advice and guidance to midwifery staff and the wider multidisciplinary team, ensuring safe and effective management of complex cases.

Champion and embed the principles of Think Family and Safeguarding is Everyones Responsibility across all areas of practice.

Work collaboratively with internal and external partners, including health, social care, and statutory agencies, to ensure a coordinated and effective multi-agency safeguarding response.

Provide safeguarding supervision in line with Trust policy and procedures, supporting staff in decision-making and the management of high-risk and complex safeguarding concerns.

Promote a culture of continuous learning, professional curiosity, and reflective practice, enhancing safeguarding awareness and competence within the workforce.

Take lead responsibility for the safeguarding caseload across the Worcester and Malvern localities, ensuring robust oversight and timely interventions.

Represent the Trust at Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), Strategy Meetings, and Child Protection Conferences, producing clear, concise, and evidence-based reports.

Prepare and submit court statements in accordance with legal requirements and court directives.

Work collaboratively with locality Specialist Midwives for Vulnerable Women and Safeguarding, ensuring consistency of practice and shared learning across services.

Key Duties:

To provide support, advice, education and maternity care for vulnerable women.

The Specialist Midwife will take the midwifery lead for the area of safeguarding children and vulnerable women.

The Specialist Midwife must ensure that policies and guidelines for the specialty are up to date and based on the latest evidence.

The Specialist Midwife must act as a resource for other members of the multi-disciplinary team and be able to demonstrate knowledge and competence in the specialist role.

The post holder must facilitate an environment of learning to promote the development of midwives as well as the service.

To work alongside other disciplines and agencies, to provide holistic care for the women and their families.

The Specialist Midwife must ensure that she/he maintains clinical and managerial competence through continued learning and be able to give evidence to support his/her continued practice.

General Duties:

To provide the midwifery specialist lead for vulnerable women and safeguarding children.

To attend case conferences, core groups and other appropriate meetings.

To provide alerts for the maternity unit, to ensure a plan of care is upheld.

To ensure that there are appropriate policies and guidelines to deliver a high standard of care to women and their babies, protecting the needs of the vulnerable.

To set, monitor and audit standards for vulnerable women and safeguarding children.

To provide the annual statistics required in relation to vulnerable women and safeguarding children.

To promote the agenda of national and local policies ensuring care is evidence based.

To ensure that women receive evidence based information.

To provide a safe therapeutic environment for women and their babies, conducive to their physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs.

To assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care.

To provide training to midwives and students either on an individual basis or as groups on vulnerable women and safeguarding children.

To establish internal and external networks within the profession to promote midwifery and your specialist role in order to meet the holistic needs of vulnerable women and their children.

To establish close working relationships with external agencies involved with vulnerable groups.

To take the lead for safeguarding supervision with teams.

To implement any actions arising from CQC safeguarding inspections.

Lead provision of care for teenage mothers

Professional:

To provide professional leadership and act in a consultative capacity for vulnerable women and safeguarding children.

To act as a role model and mentor to staff.

To ensure that there is effective communication between professionals and women.

To meet the statutory requirements of PREP and maintain and develop professional competencies and collate evidence for revalidation.

To be conversant with professional developments that affects the delivery of care.

To abide by the NMCs Code of Conduct, Midwifery Rules and other guidance.

To facilitate referral and maintain close working relationship with Family Nurse Partnership.

Managerial Duties:

To report incidents using datix system.

To be involved in investigating incidents in relation to safeguarding children and vulnerable women.

To provide within the maternity unit, a safe therapeutic environment that meets the needs of vulnerable women and their children.

To ensure that policies, guidelines and protocols are adhered to.