Lead Midwife

Lead Midwife

The closing date is 02 March 2026

To build on the current practice of achieving healthy birth outcomes for babies who are born at University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust, and to enable implementation of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle Version 3 (SBLCBv3) and Maternity Care Bundle.

Lead and facilitate a programme to enable the delivery of the SBLCBv3 and Maternity Care Bundle within UHNM which encompasses:

• Reducing smoking in pregnancy
• Risk assessment, prevention and surveillance of pregnancies at risk of Fetal growth restriction (FGR)
• Raising awareness of reduced fetal movement (RFM)
• Diabetes in pregnancy
• VTE
• Pre hospital and acute care
• Epilepsy in pregnancy
• Maternal mental health
• Obstetric haemorrhage

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.

Please see attached job description for full description of main responsibilities.

Further information can be obtained by contacting the recruiting manager.

• Full UK NMC PIN number
• Evidence of masters level study

• Minimum 2 years band 6 experience within UK maternity services
• Understanding of Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle
• Experience of delivering training / teaching
• Experience of maternity governance e.g Risk, Datix, PMRT
• Experience with audits

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.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust