Senior Midwifery Practitioner – Community Team 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.

Please see below for detailed job description of the role.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking an experienced, motivated and compassionate midwife to join our community services team as a community team lead.

This is an exciting opportunity for an inspiring leader who is passionate about promoting excellence in midwifery practice, supporting and developing staff, and driving continuous improvement within community maternity services.

You will play a key role in ensuring women, birthing people and families receive safe, personalised and evidence-based care throughout their maternity journey.

As a community team lead, you will provide professional, clinical and managerial leadership to midwives, maternity support workers and students, promoting excellence in practice and supporting staff development.

You will work closely with the maternity leadership team and multidisciplinary colleagues to drive quality improvement, clinical governance and service development across community maternity services.

This role requires flexibility, the ability to travel between community hubs and sites, and a valid driving licence with access to a vehicle.

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

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

Trust Vaules and Behaviours

Essential

  • Patients First
  • Always Improving
  • Working Together

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: 31 August 2026

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