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Job overview

Are you an aspiring Director of Midwifery?  Looking for a part-time opportunity to progress your skills?  Are you a motivated and dynamic experienced senior midwife, keen to develop and ready for your next exciting opportunity?  We have a fantastic opportunity to join our fast evolving midwifery leadership team as the Deputy Director of Midwifery for Governance.  This is a part-time role due to internal secondment and initially is for 11 months.  Experience is required for this senior and pivotal role within our Maternity, Neonatal and Gynaecology team.  

There has never been a more exciting time to join the Midwifery Leadership Team here at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust.  We are seeking someone really special to join our fast paced, progressive team at a time when we have invested in our leadership team significantly over the last 2 years.  We need you to complete the picture and want to support your development and aspirations within a cohesive and supportive leadership team. 

Main duties of the job

We are a large and fast paced maternity service,  we work in partnership with women, families and external stakeholders to deliver innovative care and we strive to deliver exceptional care at all times.   Central to our service are safety and a positive patient experience.  We work closely with our LMNS to progress transformation of maternity services with the aim of continuous improvements in outcomes for mothers and babies.

The service provides high quality, evidence based care to around 6500 women and babies per year in Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire. Our maternity unit comprises of a Consultant led unit, with Midwife Birth Centre and level 3 NNU. At the County site, the women diagnostic centre also houses the Freestanding Midwife Birth Unit plus day care services for maternity and gynaecology.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. 

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.