Senior Midwifery Practitioner – Perinatal Mental Health Specialist: 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.

Job Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team for an enthusiastic and knowledgeable midwife.

Are you passionate about perinatal mental health? Do you want to enhance your skills in supporting the mental health of women and birthing people throughout their maternity journey? Are you committed to providing personalised and compassionate care to women, birthing people, and families with complex social needs?

Our maternity service embodies the Trust Values, placing women, birthing people, and their families at the heart of our care and we strive for excellence in everything we do, continually improving and working together. Our maternity team is dedicated to delivering safe, high-quality, and efficient care, regardless of background or needs, providing you with extensive experience across the entire pregnancy journey.

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

  • 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: 18 October 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.