Deputy Lead Midwife - Quality Assurance, Governance And Compliance

Are you an experienced and motivated midwifery leader with a passion for quality, safety and continuous improvement?

We are seeking an exceptional Deputy Lead Midwife to play a pivotal role in shaping and strengthening maternity governance across our services. Working closely with senior maternity leaders, you will help drive the quality and safety agenda, ensuring women, babies and families receive the highest standards of care. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategic improvement programmes, support regulatory compliance, embed learning from incidents and reviews, and champion a culture of excellence across our maternity services.

We are looking for an experienced registered midwife with strong leadership skills, excellent governance knowledge and the ability to inspire multidisciplinary teams to deliver meaningful change. You will be a credible and collaborative leader who is passionate about improving outcomes, enhancing patient experience and supporting staff to achieve their best.

In return, you will join one of the UK's leading maternity services within an internationally renowned NHS Trust, offering opportunities for professional development, innovation, research and system-wide influence.

• Support the Lead Midwife Quality Assurance, Governance & Compliance on monitoring standards of a range of clinical governance, clinical effectiveness, audit and patient safety activities, in liaison with other multidisciplinary professionals and functional heads within the Safety and Effectiveness team.
• Support the Lead Midwife for Quality Assurance, Governance & Compliance to provide an oversight of the strategic and operational delivery of all aspects of quality assurance pertinent to the business of clinical governance in maternity that is safety centric, as well as demonstrating good quality governance is understood and practised across all professional groups within maternity services.
• Hold responsibility for the development, coordination, and ongoing monitoring of a comprehensive maternity action plan, incorporating all actions and recommendations arising from internal reviews, external investigations, audits, inspections, and regulatory reports, ensuring timely implementation, oversight, and assurance of progress.
• The post holder is responsible for ensuring effective governance systems are in place across maternity and particularly guideline, clinical audit, risk management, training and Maternity Incentive Scheme (MIS).

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Environmental sustainability:
Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment

Band:
Band 8a

Salary: £66,274 to £73,496 a year pa inclusive

Contract:

Permanent

Working pattern:
Full-time

Closing date: 11 November 2026

• NMC registered midwife
• Degree level education or equivalent experience
• Trained in Root Cause Analysis
• Ability to analyse aggregated management systems
• Leading and developing a team
• Understanding of clinical effectiveness and audit procedures
• Experience of risk management, audit process, and shared learning
• Midwifery clinical experience/can demonstrate credible midwifery knowledge
• Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands
• Understanding of principles of safety, quality assurance and…