Senior Midwifery Practitioner – Recruitment and Retention Lead: Sponsorship Available

University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust

Job summary

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Job Title: Senior Midwifery Practitioner – Recruitment and Retention Lead

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Purpose for Fixed Term: Short term funding

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Senior Midwifery Practitioner – Recruitment and Retention Lead Midwife. This role offers the opportunity to lead and influence initiatives that attract, develop and retain a skilled, compassionate and diverse maternity workforce.

At UHS we know that excellent care for women, birthing people, babies and families starts with excellent staff experience. We are committed to creating an environment where our colleagues feel valued, supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. As our Recruitment & Retention Midwife, you will play a key role in making this vision a reality.

This is a highly visible role where you will engage with staff at all stages of their careers, helping to ensure that maternity remains a great place to work, learn and develop.

You will use staff feedback, workforce data and organisational priorities to develop innovative approaches that improve retention, enhance staff wellbeing and strengthen workforce sustainability.

This is a fixed term opportunity for a 12 month period of 30 hours per week.

Person Specification

Qualifications, knowledge and experience

Essential

  • 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 with the ability to demonstrate significant experience in midwifery practice and responsibility for managing a clinical team
  • Have ability to network, initiate and develop sound relationships with senior colleagues within and external to the Trust
  • Expert clinical skills relevant to speciality and achievement of all midwifery competencies
  • Synthesise information quickly and able to communicate and escalate

Desirable

  • Experience of writing protocols, guidelines and integrated care pathways
  • High dependency course
  • Team leadership role
  • Evidence of audit
  • Experience of leading change management programmes
  • Examination of the newborn qualification
  • Willingness to teach practice in a formal setting
  • Understanding of local and national NHS initiatives

Trust Values

Essential

  • Patient First
  • Working Together
  • Always Improving

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 29 September 2026

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