Band 7 Team Leader Birth Centre

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust

Band 7 Team Leader Birth Centre

The closing date is 20 January 2026

Kingston Birth Centre is an extremely popular choice for women with a straightforward pregnancy. Amongst the South West London Trusts, our Birth Centre remains open, with consistently high birth numbers and excellent feedback as a testament to our excellent midwifery care and facilities.

The post holder will be responsible for providing clinical excellence and managerial leadership for the Birth Centre within Kingston & Richmond Maternity Services. To provide women and babies with a high quality, safe midwifery care, throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period.

The post holder will be a highly visible champion of midwifery lead care through demonstration of excellent clinical knowledge and practice.

The role of the Birth Centre Team Lead is to support the Matron for Birth Centre and Consultant Midwife to ensure women are provided with personalised care. They must act as a leader and effective role model to staff, promoting healthy outcomes from women and babies within Kingston Maternity Services.

The care will be evidenced based and holistic in meeting women's individual needs and the midwife will be expected to work autonomously within the guidelines and sphere of professional practice.

The post holder will regularly audit achievements and initiate projects to improve the service provided on the Birth Centre.

Kingston is proud of its strong multi-disciplinary (MDT) culture. We provide a well evaluated, in-house MDT programme, and staff have the opportunity to attend external study days or enrol for academic modules at our local higher education institutes.

If you are a passionate midwife with excellent communication skills and a drive to provide high quality care to women, please apply to join our multi professional maternity team.

Please be aware that this post requires you to work a mixture of day and night shifts, weekends and bank holidays.

You will be required to travel, therefore a valid driving license and access to a vehicle would be desirable.

Development and staff wellbeing

Your growth and personal happiness matters to us. After all, we can't expect the best from you if we don't invest in your development and nurture your wellbeing. From the moment you join us, we're committed to fostering your professional and personal development with a supportive, empowering environment. Whether you're just starting your career or looking to advance further, we provide you with the tools and opportunities you need to succeed.

We actively support colleagues to take part in research, quality improvement and innovation, whatever their role or level in the organisation.

To support your wellbeing, we offer an extensive range of resources, including on-site staff nursery at Kingston Hospital, wellbeing practitioners, regular wellbeing classes, dedicated staff physiotherapist, comprehensive occupational health services, 24/7 employee assistance programme, and a range of other support and activities.

We also take every opportunity to thank and recognise the work our teams do, through weekly "shoutouts" and patient feedback, monthly and staff awards.

These words are important reminders, but it's our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring values to life in their work.

• Inclusive
• Inspiring

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information and also the person specification for this role.

• Registered midwife with current NMC registration
• Evidence of ongoing education

• Relevant experience as a band 6
• Experience in managing a ward or equivalent area
• Management of people

• Ability to demonstrate leadership
• Demonstrates understanding of role boundaries
• Ability to coordinate and liaise within a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience in clinical audit

• Experience in low and high risk care
• Practice evidence based care

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust

£53,751 to £60,651 a year pa. Inclusive of HCAS (Outer) pro rata