Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 214-W&C-7121398
- Employer
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- King's Mill Hospital
- Town
- Sutton in Ashfield
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Consultant Midwife- Clinical Effectiveness and Innovation
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, visionary Consultant Midwife to join our team at Sherwood Forest Hospital.
The role of the consultant midwife is to provide expert clinical care and leadership within the maternity service. By working in collaboration with the Head of Midwifery, Clinical Director and wider perinatal senior team, the Consultant Midwife will ensure there is effective leadership, education and training, practice and service development and research/evaluation within the maternity service.
The successful candidate will be an expert, autonomous practitioner of midwifery, a role model for midwives, a lead for midwifery research and practice development, and a reference for multi-professional colleagues. The Consultant Midwife will function as an expert midwifery advisor internally and externally. This will include acting as an ambassador for the Trust's maternity and neonatal services, raising the profile of Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust as a maternity and neonatal centre of excellence internally and nationally as required by the Director of Midwifery/Divisional Director of Nursing and/or Chief Nurse.
Apply now to join our team and make a difference in healthcare!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Working for our organisation
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Experienced Midwife with experience in a senior leadership role
- In depth understanding of maternity and neonatal national agendas
- Portfolio of evidence to demonstrate significant achievement in maternity care particularly with regards to leading service redesign
- Demonstrable ability to lead and drive teams of significant size
- Experience in setting up new functions/systems for entire divisions
- Experience of successfully delivering large scale projects which impact multiple staff groups and service areas
- Ability to manage the translation of strategic intent into operational reality
Desirable criteria
- In depth knowledge of programme and project management tools and techniques
- Knowledge and understanding of the provider health systems financial and commissioning processes
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered Midwife
- Educated to masters level or with an equivalent level of specialist training and experience
Desirable criteria
- Independent non medical prescriber
- Professional Midwifery Advocate
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Evidence of commitment to Continued Professional Development
- Evidence of leadership development
Desirable criteria
- Published in professional journals
- Presentations at local, regional and national events
- Evidence of contribution to original research
Skills and experience
Essential criteria
- Understand, disseminate and present complex information in a variety of formats, using both verbal and written disciplines
- Ability to develop business cases required to facilitate service change
- Political astuteness
- Well-developed negotiating and influencing skills
- Effective levels of critical thinking skills, problem solving ability and creative thinking to stimulate action
- Effective problem solver
- Organisational development and change management skills
- Ability to draw effective and speedy solutions from conflicting priorities
- Ability to assess risks, anticipate difficulties and address them
- Confident in providing direction with an ability to lead teams of considerable size
- Demonstrable relationship management skills
- Proactive and able to work autonomously as part of different teams
- Visionary and transformational thinker
- High personal resilience to operate in highly pressurised environments on an ongoing basis and a commitment to deliver
- Ability to inspire colleagues and bring about change
- Strong analytical, numeric and critical reasoning skills
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate personal integrity, energy and resilience
- Able to deliver competing priorities to time on tight deadlines
- Able to convey a passion for service change
- Able to travel independently to King's Mill Hospital and occasionally other venues in the county
- Able to work in line with the Trust Values and Behaviours framework
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Ayre
- Job title
- Head of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07909918688
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