Job overview
The Specialist Midwife for Trauma‑Informed Care provides expert leadership in embedding trauma‑informed principles across maternity services, ensuring that emotional safety, empowerment, trust and choice are central to all care. The role leads, coordinates and delivers a structured trauma‑informed debriefing service for women and birthing people following traumatic or distressing events, offering skilled psychological and emotional support within a safe and compassionate framework.
Working closely with the multidisciplinary team, the postholder brings specialist insight, drawing on complaints, incidents, feedback, outcomes and governance reviews to identify themes and drive improvement.
A key part of the role is meaningful co‑production with women, birthing people, families, staff and partners such as the Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP).
This role includes participation in the Manager on Call rota to meet service needs out of hours. It also includes an expectation to support clinical workload as required and to maintain clinical credibility in practice.
Main duties of the job
Leads service developments aligned to trauma‑informed care, ensuring maternity pathways reflect best practice and contemporary evidence.
* Triangulates learning from complaints, incidents, service‑user feedback, audits, education, governance reviews and clinical outcomes to identify themes, risks and opportunities for improvement.
* Produces high‑quality thematic reports based on analysis, evaluation and research, ensuring findings clearly inform service development and quality improvement.
* Analyses complex information, interpreting and comparing a range of options to support sound clinical and operational decision‑making, particularly in areas requiring specialist judgement around complex midwifery concerns.
* Plans, organises and coordinates complex activities, multi‑disciplinary meetings and improvement projects that require adjustment and ongoing review.
* Uses computer software to develop and generate statistical reports, data summaries, queries and visual outputs to support audit, evaluation and service assurance.
* Monitors service progression, identifying emerging risks, evolving priorities and workforce or system pressures, escalating concerns appropriately.
* Observes personal duty of care in relation to the safe and effective use of equipment and resources, ensuring compliance with required safety standards.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provides and receives highly complex, sensitive and sometimes contentious information requiring empathy, reassurance, negotiation and motivational skills.
Overcomes barriers to understanding and acceptance, especially during highly emotive or distressing circumstances.
Presents complex, sensitive or contentious information to large groups of MDT staff e.g. Safety & Quality and communicates complex midwifery issues to large groups e.g. Maternity Education Days.
Provides specialist advice to colleagues and external agencies.
Contributes to whole‑service learning by sharing emerging themes, risks and insights across teams.
Knowledge, Training & Experience
* Professional/clinical knowledge acquired through midwifery training to degree level or equivalent experience.
* Post‑registration, plus further study or equivalent experience in Trauma‑informed Care (or equivalent) at a postgraduate diploma level.
* Specialist knowledge across a range of procedures underpinned by theory.
* Applies trauma‑informed practice principles, psychological safety frameworks and national recommendations.
* Maintains a contemporary knowledge base reflecting emerging themes, national reports, maternity transformation priorities, and safeguarding guidance.
Person specification
* Registered Midwife. Degree/Diploma in Midwifery.
* CPD in Trauma‑informed practice or equivalent.
* Experience supporting women after traumatic events.
* Involvement with governance processes.
* Post‑graduate diploma in Trauma Informed Care/ Counselling or working towards.
* Teaching experience.
* Audit and Quality Improvement experience.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
* Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).
* Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues.
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