Specialist Midwife - Local Maternal Medicine

Job summary

Leeds Teaching Hospitals are offering an exciting opportunity to join our Maternal Medicine Team as Maternal Medicine Specialist Midwife. We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated individual who can support delivery of expert, individualised care for pregnant women/ birthing people with medical conditions that pre-date or arise during pregnancy. The post holder will play a key role in coordinating specialist clinics and MDTs, ensuring seamless collaboration across obstetric, medical, and multidisciplinary services. You will be instrumental in developing personalised care plans, supporting women, birthing people and families through complex pregnancies with compassion and clinical excellence. This role involves providing both inpatient and outpatient monitoring, ensuring continuity, safety, and high-quality outcomes. You will also be pivotal in the implementation of the maternal care bundle, driving improvements in clinical standards, and patient experience across the service.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a passionate and skilled midwife with experience in caring for women with complex medical conditions in pregnancy. The post holder will have excellent communication, leadership, and organisational skills, with a strong commitment to woman-centred care. A proactive approach to quality improvement, with the ability to support the implementation of the maternal care bundle to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities. Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About us

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.

Details

• Date posted: 07 July 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 001473
• Job locations: Cross Site, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7TF, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

For questions about this job, contact:

Name - Debbie Scott Position - Maternal Medicine Consultant Midwife Email - debbie.scott14@nhs.net Shortlisting Date: Monday 27th July (subject to change) Interview Date: Monday 3rd August (subject to change)

Job Summary

Leeds Teaching Hospitals are offering an exciting opportunity to join our Maternal Medicine Team as Maternal Medicine Specialist Midwife. We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated individual who can support delivery of expert, individualised care for pregnant women/ birthing people with medical conditions that pre-date or arise during pregnancy.

The post holder will play a key role in coordinating specialist clinics and MDTs, ensuring seamless collaboration across obstetric, medical, and multidisciplinary services. You will be instrumental in developing personalised care plans, supporting women, birthing people and families through complex pregnancies with compassion and clinical excellence.

This role involves providing both inpatient and outpatient monitoring, ensuring continuity, safety, and high-quality outcomes. You will also be pivotal in the implementation of the maternal care bundle, driving improvements in clinical standards, and patient experience across the service.

Why you should join our Team

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of 2 Maternal Medicine Centre’s within the Yorkshire and Humber maternal Medicine Network, with more than 8500 birth per year. We work closely with Obstetricians and Physicians from different specialities to deliver joint clinics, including Cardiac, Haematology, Renal, Rheumatology, Epilepsy and Gastroenterology.

As a relatively new team, this is fantastic opportunity to continually codevelop a service to meet the needs of the people using it.

What you will bring to the role

We are looking for a passionate and skilled midwife with experience in caring for women with complex medical conditions in pregnancy. The post holder will have excellent communication, leadership, and organisational skills, with a strong commitment to woman-centred care. A proactive approach to quality improvement, with the ability to support the implementation of the maternal care bundle to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities.

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our Trust values

The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.

We are….

Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind

Our Trust priorities

Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time

Our priorities:

People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.