Head of Midwifery

• Weekly Hours / Programmed
  
  Activities:
  
  37.5
• Salary Band:
  Band 8c
• Staff Group:
  Nursing and Midwifery Registered
• Contract Type:
  Permanent
• Job Area:
  Midwifery

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

NHS Band 8c Salary:£79,504 - £91,609 per annum

Hours per Week: full time 37.5

Contract Type: Permanent

Are you a visionary and strategic Registered Midwife with the passion and expertise to lead high-quality, safe, and compassionate maternity services? Do you champion women, families, and staff while driving continuous improvement and innovation?

If so, we invite you to join our team as Head of Midwifery, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of maternity care.

In this senior leadership role, you will lead the delivery and transformation of maternity services, ensuring care is safe, personalised, evidence-based, and responsive to the needs of women and families. You will empower and develop the workforce, fostering a culture of compassion, inclusion, and excellence.

You will work collaboratively across the organisation and with system partners, including close partnership with the Isle of Wight through established collaborative arrangements, supporting cross-site working and shared service improvement.

• As Head of Midwifery, you will be accountable for the delivery of high quality, safe maternity services, ensuring effective staffing, patient flow, and optimal clinical outcomes while maintaining a visible and supportive leadership presence within clinical areas.
• You will lead on clinical governance, embedding robust risk management processes, continuous quality improvement, and a strong safety and Just Culture that promotes openness, learning, and psychological safety, ensuring services are evidence-based and aligned with national standards. Working closely with the Director of Midwifery and senior teams, you will drive strategic and annual service planning, contribute to transformation and financial sustainability, and ensure performance targets are met through monitoring, improvement planning, and data-driven assurance.
• You will lead workforce planning and development, supporting recruitment, retention, education, and staff wellbeing, while ensuring effective implementation of HR policies and fostering an inclusive and motivated workforce.
• In addition, you will collaborate with system partners to co‑produce services with women and families, ensuring their voices shape maternity services. Participation in the senior midwifery on‑call rota is required, providing expert leadership and in doing so, you will help deliver a maternity service that is safe, equitable, personalised, and responsive, underpinned by compassionate leadership and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
• Management qualification or equivalent experience in leadership qualification or evidence of working toward this.
• Post graduate qualification in a Health‑related subject.
• Evidence of Continual Professional development.
• Experience and/or teaching qualification.
• Published work in a clinical or health care area.
• Mentoring/Coaching Qualification.

• A clear understanding of leadership and team dynamics, including what factors make a successful organisation.
• Highly developed leadership skills, including demonstrable transformational style.
• Strong team player.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• An understanding of all staff groups and agencies/stakeholder across the health community.
• Strong…