NHS Jobs
Job role: Consultant Midwife
Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 251-FCSS7621-MIDW
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About the Job:
- Provide expert, autonomous clinical leadership in complex and uncertain maternity care, offering advice on clinical decision-making, escalation, referral, and transfer of care.
- Maintain a visible clinical presence of up to 50% of the role, supporting women with complex needs and enabling midwives to practice confidently and autonomously.
- Champion equitable, culturally responsive care, challenging bias, and addressing variation in access, experience, and outcomes.
- Provide strategic professional leadership, working across organizational boundaries to drive service redesign, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Work with women, families, the MNVP, and system partners to co-produce improvements and ensure lived experience, safety, workforce, and outcome data inform service development.
- Contribute to maternity strategy and regional and national networks, deputize for the Director of Midwifery, and participate in the on-call rota.
- Lead education and workforce development, working with higher education, governance, and improvement teams to translate learning into practice and strengthen clinical judgement, leadership, and improvement capability.
- Lead audit, evaluation, and evidence-based practice, using clinical, workforce, experience, and disaggregated perinatal data to identify variation and improvement priorities.
- Promote research participation, evaluate the impact and equity of service changes, and disseminate learning and best practice.
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