Overview
Are you an experienced midwife motivated and ready for your next development opportunity? If so, there has never been a more exciting time to join the Senior Midwifery team and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a forward‑thinking, dynamic and pro‑active Midwifery Ward Manager on Ward 314/315 – Maternity Ward on the Royal Derby Hospital site.
Responsibilities
* Provide leadership and motivation for a busy team of Midwives and Support Workers.
* Work alongside the existing Senior Midwife to manage a 61‑bedded mixed antenatal/postnatal and transitional care ward.
* Maintain an effective and coordinated approach to ward management by demonstrating excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* Take overall responsibility and accountability for ensuring women, babies and families receive safe, clinically effective, women‑centred care across the whole maternity care pathway.
* Offer expert midwifery clinical advice, operationally support and manage teams and services to deliver high‑quality, effective and compassionate care.
* Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver care to women and babies within acute clinical environments whose needs are complex.
* Support the delivery of midwifery care flexibly across the service, using a range of service models, including continuity of carer.
* Ensure compliance with local, Trust‑wide and national policies, procedures, values and behaviours.
Benefits
* Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development.
* On‑going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
* Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes.
Key Facts
* We see on average 4,810 OP appointments a day.
* We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2,077 per week.
* An average of 1,115 patients are seen in A&E across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
* Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
* Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
* We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
* We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
* UHDB is a research‑active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
Closing date of applications: 20 January 2026
Interview date: 2 February 2026
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