37.5 hours per week
Permanent
Salary: £64,455 - £74,896 per annum
Closing Date: 17th September 2025
Interview Date: TBC
- This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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Are you ready to shape the future of maternity care?
We’re looking for an exceptional Consultant Midwife to help lead a transformative journey in maternity services at George Eliot NHS Trust and the wider foundation group.
Your Impact
- This isn’t just a job, it’s a legacy. You’ll influence policy, shape care, and empower midwives and the wider MDT to meet the evolving needs of our community.
As a dynamic and visionary leader, you’ll champion high-quality, evidence-based care for over 2,000 women and babies annually. Working within a committed multidisciplinary team, you’ll help design and deliver innovative midwifery models while ensuring the workforce is skilled, empowered, and future ready.
What You’ll Do
- Guide and Strengthen midwifery's role in the national quality and safety agenda.
- Lead service development through professional leadership, research, and training.
- Support vulnerable women through continuity of care.
- Collaborate with safeguarding and specialist midwives to address health inequalities, teenage pregnancy, domestic violence, smoking cessation, mental health and promote the public health agenda.
- Show a commitment to maternity transformation through education, practice development, and evidence-based innovation
- Serve as one of the Trust’s maternity ambassador, representing excellence locally and nationally
- Co-lead professional elements of the maternity transformation programme
- Support clinical governance, patient experience, and continuity of care agendas strategic partnerships within the LMNS and with the Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership
Who You Are
- A confident expert across all areas of maternity care
- A strategic thinker and compassionate leader.
- Passionate about supporting individualised care.
- Someone who truly understands the impact of midwifery at every stage, preconception, antenatal, postnatal, and beyond
Here At George Eliot Our Vision To ‘excel At Patient Care’ Takes Centre Stage. An Ever Evolving Clinically-led Acute Service Provider We Are On a Journey To Continually Provide High Quality, Safe And Responsive Services Delivered By Inspiring, Friendly And Compassionate Staff Who Share Our Corporate Values Which Underpin Everything We Do. Our Values Are Not Just Words On a Piece Of Paper, They Bond Us Together, Reflect Our Ambition And Shape Who We Are
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xcellence and safety in everything we do
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Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
If you are applying for a Domestic Assistant or Health Care Assistant role you may be eligible for the refer a friend scheme – find out more here: https://www.geh.nhs.uk/about-us/people-and-workforce/vacancies/refer-friend-scheme
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Natasha Stringer Job title: Head of midwifery and neonates Email address: Natasha.Stringer@geh.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07570065836