Consultant Midwife: Sponsorship Available

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

About the Role

The Consultant Midwife is an expert clinical practitioner, professional leader and strategic partner who will shape the development of safe, personalised, equitable and evidence-based maternity care across Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Working across the four pillars of expert practice; professional leadership and consultancy; education and workforce development; and service development, research and evaluation, the postholder will maintain a visible clinical contribution and provide authoritative advice in complex and uncertain clinical circumstances.

The postholder will work with women, families, staff, multidisciplinary partners and the Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership to identify priorities, co-produce improvement and ensure that service redesign responds to lived experience, clinical evidence and variation in access, experience and outcomes. They will support implementation of learning from national maternity and neonatal reviews, local reviews, incidents, complaints, audit and research, and will build workforce capability for innovation and sustained improvement.

About You

You will be an experienced senior midwife with a strong track record of leadership, service improvement and staff development. You will demonstrate credibility, compassion and resilience, with the ability to influence at senior level and lead teams through change while maintaining high standards of care.

Main duties of the job

Role Summary

Provide expert, autonomous clinical leadership in complex and uncertain maternity care, offering advice on clinical decision-making, escalation, referral and transfer of care. Maintain a visible clinical presence of up to 50% of the role, supporting women with complex needs and enabling midwives to practise confidently and autonomously. Champion equitable, culturally responsive care, challenging bias and addressing variation in access, experience and outcomes.

Provide strategic professional leadership, working across organisational boundaries to drive service redesign, innovation and continuous improvement. Work with women, families, the MNVP and system partners to co-produce improvements and ensure lived experience, safety, workforce and outcome data inform service development. Contribute to maternity strategy, regional and national networks, deputise for the Director of Midwifery and participate in the on-call rota.

Lead education and workforce development, working with higher education, governance and improvement teams to translate learning into practice and strengthen clinical judgement, leadership and improvement capability.

Lead audit, evaluation and evidence-based practice, using clinical, workforce, experience and disaggregated perinatal data to identify variation and improvement priorities. Promote research participation, evaluate the impact and equity of service changes, and disseminate learning and best practice.

Person Specification

Professional registration and CPD

Essential

  • Evidence of CPD alongside professional registration
  • Senior Leadership experience
  • Extensive HR policy and management use
  • Demonstrable quality improvement experience

Desirable

  • Masters degree or working towards
  • Leadership/management qualification

Education

Essential

  • Educated to degree or relevant experience
  • evidence of CPD

Clinical experience

Essential

  • Experience at 8a matron level or leadership role
  • Clinically credible

Desirable

  • experience in all service areas

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: 18 October 2026

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