Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 284-25-6968739-DWCC
- Employer
- Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birmingham Women's Hospital
- Town
- Birmingham
- Closing
- 14/02/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 11/03/2025
Employer heading
Director of Midwifery
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.
Job overview
Are you a passionate and experienced Senior Midwifery Leader seeking a pivotal leadership role in shaping the future of Maternity, Neonatal and Gynaecology and Fertility services? Birmingham Women’s & Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional individual to serve as Director of Midwifery to lead our services at our Women’s Hospital.
This is a key leadership position focused on delivering outstanding Midwifery and Nursing care across our Perinatal, Gynaecology and Fertility services and driving the highest standards of care for women, birthing people and their babies. You will lead on the professional, strategic, and clinical development of the midwifery and nursing workforce, ensuring services are safe, personalised, and aligned with nationally recognised best practice.
Main duties of the job
What We’re Looking For:
- An experienced and visionary midwifery leader with a track record of success in senior leadership roles.
- A strategic thinker with exceptional communication and relationship-building skills.
- Proven ability to influence at regional and national levels while delivering excellence in operational and clinical settings.
- Commitment to inclusion, diversity, the values of the NHS and a passion for recognising and positively impacting health inequalities
What We Offer:
This is a unique opportunity to join a leading Trust, one of two Women’s Hospitals in the country, working with a dedicated team to influence and shape the future of our Women’s Hospital’s services locally, regionally, and nationally.
If you’re ready to make a lasting impact on the lives of women and their families, we want to hear from you.
Apply now to join our team and lead the way in midwifery excellence.
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered midwife with the NMC
- Educated to Masters Level in a healthcare related subject
- Evidence of on-going Continuing Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Holds a recognised management or leadership qualification
Knowledge / Experience
Essential criteria
- A track record of successfully leading a midwifery service in a complex organization
- Evidence of implementing significant organisational change
- Knowledge of health and social care structures and policy at national, regional and local level
- Evidence of strong and positive leadership behaviours
- Evidence of working across boundaries, influencing and developing staff and working with multiple stakeholders
- Proven experience in the implementation of corporate and professional strategies
- Proven experience in the implementation and monitoring of quality tools
- Demonstrable experience of improving patient experience and patient safety
Desirable criteria
- Experience developed in a Head of midwifery role that recognises highly developed and complex levels of knowledge, to inform in-depth responses to complicated and unpredictable problems and situations
- Senior safeguarding leadership experience
Professional / Managerial / Specialist Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of resource management
- Evidence of delivery of audit and research based nursing/midwifery practice
Personal Skills / Abilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to work in a climate of rapid change and uncertainty
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Daljit Athwal
- Job title
- Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
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