Lead Maternal Medicine Midwife

Are you an experienced midwife with strong leadership skills and a passion for delivering high-quality, person-centred care?

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a motivated and dynamic individual to join our team as the Lead Midwife for Maternal Medicine. This Band 7 role offers a unique chance to develop and demonstrate leadership within antenatal services, working closely with the wider maternity leadership team to ensure the smooth and effective running of maternal medicine services.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will provide visible, supportive leadership for the Maternal Medicine Team, ensuring the safe, effective, and compassionate delivery of antenatal care aligned with national standards and trust priorities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and deliver midwifery care for pregnant people with complex medical conditions.
• Act as a key contact for clients throughout their pregnancy journey antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal supporting informed choice and personalised care.
• Collaborate with obstetricians, specialist midwives (including diabetes and maternal medicine), and the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure continuity and coordination of care.
• Lead day-to-day operations, including staffing, workload prioritisation, and escalation of concerns.
• Drive service improvements to enhance patient experience and reduce health inequalities.
• Support the professional development, wellbeing, and retention of midwifery staff.
• Work within the local MMN to seek input of external specialists and ensure the safe and efficient progress of clients through services across the MMN

About us

Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.

CUH provides more than 100 specialist services and is home to the borough's only Emergency Department and 24/7 maternity services, including a labour ward, midwifery-led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team.

Purley War Memorial Hospital (PWMH) in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery.

Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after for people of all ages across Croydon and our Children's Hospital at Home cares for children with long-term conditions without them having to come to hospital.

We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification. Please speak to Claire Cox if you would like to know more about this role.

Person Specification Education and experience

• NMC registrant
• substantial post-registration clinical experience
• Experience in antenatal complex care or Maternal medicine
• understanding of national drivers and research based practice
• MSc in midwifery
• Practice assessor
• Experience working in a variety of clinical settings including either ANC or community
• Understands current national agenda
• Has experience of managing people
• Can conduct clinical audits and present the findings
• Has successfully implemented a change or QI project
• ACP or non medical prescriber
• counselling skills

skills and abilities

• IT skills - able to use Excel, word, MS teams and powerpoint
• Can operate as part of MDT
• excellent time management and organisational skills
• presentation and public speaking skills
• motivated to develop clinical skills
• has experience of people management
• understands and is aware of Trust policies

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Antenatal clinic, Maternity Department, Croydon University Hospital

£53,751 to £60,651 a yearper annum, pro rata incl HCA (Outer)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

243-RB-HM

Job locations

Antenatal clinic, Maternity Department, Croydon University Hospital