A Vacancy at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, visionary Consultant Midwife to join our team at Sherwood Forest Hospital.
The role of the consultant midwife is to provide expert clinical care and leadership within the maternity service. By working in collaboration with the Head of Midwifery, Clinical Director and wider perinatal senior team, the Consultant Midwife will ensure there is effective leadership, education and training, practice and service development and research/evaluation within the maternity service.
The successful candidate will be an expert, autonomous practitioner of midwifery, a role model for midwives, a lead for midwifery research and practice development, and a reference for multi-professional colleagues. The Consultant Midwife will function as an expert midwifery advisor internally and externally.
Apply now to join our team and make a difference in healthcare!
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To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Sunday 4 May 2025
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