Job overview
We have an exciting cross-site opportunity to join us as a Band 8b Consultant Midwife for intrapartum care
Our maternity team provides a forward-thinking environment, offering comprehensive and high-quality care to women and their families. Our team are committed to promoting woman-centred, individualised care to a diverse population.
1. We care for approximately 4,300 women annually across our two sites, utilising digital maternity systems.
2. Comprehensive Service Offering: Includes assisted conception, community services, obstetric-led labour wards, birth centres, specialist midwifery teams, and home birth team.
3. Positive Feedback: Women and families consistently report positive experiences, highlighting the quality of care provided. The 2024 Maternity Benchmark survey demonstrated ESTH performed above average, particularly in postnatal care.
4. Active Improvement Culture: Ongoing improvement projects that aim to enhance service delivery and workforce development.
5. Collaboration with Local Maternity Systems
The successful candidates will benefit from access to extensive in-house training and professional growth opportunities; working in as part of our welcoming, and supportive team; and being at the forefront of midwifery service provision.
If you're ready to advance in your career or seeking a fresh opportunity, we'd love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
At Epsom and St Helier we pride ourselves in offering flexible working arrangements, a robust in service training package and a positive working culture.
6. Provide expert clinical leadership across intrapartum services, supporting and advocating for midwives in complex and sensitive clinical situations while spending at least 50% of time in direct clinical practice.
7. Lead the development of personalised care plans for women and families, particularly where needs fall outside standard guidance, working collaboratively with obstetric and multidisciplinary teams.
8. Design, deliver, and evaluate the intrapartum education and training strategy, ensuring learning reflects national recommendations, incident themes, and best practice.
9. Act as a professional role model and ambassador for midwifery, providing consultancy internally and externally and representing the Trust at regional and national forums.
10. Lead service development and quality improvement, including specialist pathways (e.g., breech, outside-criteria planning) and digital transformation initiatives.
11. Promote effective governance, audit, and research, supporting evaluation of practice, preparation for external inspections, and expansion of midwifery-led research.
12. Provide professional leadership and line management, supporting staff development, performance management, and safe coordination of intrapartum activity.
Working for our organisation
ESTH is a family of nearly 8000 colleagues, serving a population of over 490,000 people in south west London and north east Surrey. Nearly 900,000 patients come to our hospitals for treatment every year. We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life.
As teaching hospitals working alongside our partnered universities, we play a vital role in the education and development of midwives, doctors and other health professionals. Benefits to working for ESTH are vast, including career development, community, staff benefits, staff wellbeing services, transportation incentives, on-site nursery (STH) and our accredited Simulation Centre.
After years of collaboration with St. Georges, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021, creating GESH. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the supporting document which details further information of the Consultant Midwife for Intrapartum Care role.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
13. Registered Midwife with active UK NMC Pin
14. Masters or working towards
15. Health related diploma/degree
Desirable criteria
16. Professional Midwifery advocate qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
17. Experienced clinical practitioner (Minimum 5 years post registration experience)
18. Extensive managerial and leadership experience
19. Evidence of staff management
20. Experience of financial and budgetary management
Desirable criteria
21. Experience of working in variety of models of care delivery
22. Experience of working at Band 8a or equivalent
Communication and relationship skills
Essential criteria
23. Management of large and diverse team
24. Evidence of service development and successful change
25. Excellent interpersonal skills
26. Ability to engage team in achieving goals and objectives
27. Evidence of undertaking research and audit
28. Demonstrates skills and experience in operational management and clinical leadership.
Desirable criteria
29. Experience in Digital Maternity systems (eg. Badgernet, iClip)
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential criteria
30. Flexible in working patterns to meet need of service
31. Effective delegation skills
32. Willing to accept additional responsibilities
Planning and organisation skills
Essential criteria
33. Ability to work in a highly demanding and fast paced environment
Your recruitment team
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Your application
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References
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Closing date
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Shortlisting
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Application feedback
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Safeguarding and DBS Checks
We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. For roles with direct access to these groups, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required. All staff are expected to understand and uphold their safeguarding responsibilities as part of their role.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
NameAnnabelle KeeganJob titleDirector of MidwiferyEmail addressTelephone number07721 741553Additional information
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS VACANCY WILL AUTOMATICALLY CLOSE ONCE REACHES APPLICATION CAPACITY THEREFORE MAY CLOSE BEFORE THE CLOSING DATE.