Senior Midwifery Practitioner – Birth Environments Coordinator
The closing date is 24 June 2026
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust offers this role.
Main duties of the job
As part of our commitment to the ongoing professional development of midwives, we are offering this opportunity for experienced midwives to enhance their leadership and organisational skills as Band 7 Birth Environment Coordinators.
We are looking to recruit coordinators across both intrapartum pathways, our obstetric‑led labour ward and our midwifery‑led Broadlands Birth Centre, with training provided for each area.
Job responsibilities
You will be responsible for the acute oversight and intrapartum care provision for women and birthing people in Southampton, operating 24 hours a day, year‑round. UHS is a tertiary level maternity service with a level 3 neonatal intensive care unit specialising in extremes of prematurity, fetal cardiac and surgical patients.
We are looking for midwives who are passionate about high and low risk care, and who are ready for the next step in their clinical and leadership development.
As a Birth Environments Coordinator, you will support the existing Labour Ward Coordinators and Broadlands Birth Centre Shift Leads, flexible midwives who bring a wide range of midwifery expertise across all areas of the maternity service, NEST midwives who deliver case loading care to vulnerable women and birthing people, and preceptee midwives currently consolidating their training following qualification.
What you will do: As a dynamic and enthusiastic leader, you will support and develop your team, act as a clinical expert and resource for the multi‑disciplinary team, and act as a professional advocate for both staff, women and birthing people on Labour Ward and Broadlands Birth Centre. You will maintain a comprehensive understanding of the broader service implications for the ongoing management of effective patient flow throughout the intrapartum environments.
The successful candidate will be: an excellent communicator adaptable to different audiences; flexible and adaptable in coordinating intrapartum environments; a positive role model with self‑awareness and personal resilience; an effective negotiator with strong problem‑solving and influencing skills.
Trust Values and Behaviours
* Patients First
* Always Improving
* Working Together
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
* Registered Midwife on relevant part of the NMC register
* Significant clinical experience
* Evidence of continual professional development
* Associate/mentorship qualification or equivalent experience
* Relevant and recent clinical experience or the ability to demonstrate significant experience in midwifery practice and responsibility for managing a clinical team
* Expert clinical skills relevant to speciality and achievement of all midwifery competencies
* Experience of writing protocols, guidelines and integrated care pathways
* High dependency course
* Team leadership role
* Evidence of audit
* Experience of leading change management programmes
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.
Depending on experience £49,387 to £56,515 per annum, pro rata
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