Are you a dynamic and compassionate midwifery leader with a passion for professional development, staff wellbeing, and cultural transformation?
Birmingham Women’s Hospital is seeking an inspirational Lead Midwife for Professional Practice and Professional Midwifery Advocates (PMA) to join our forward-thinking maternity leadership team.
This pivotal role will lead our Professional Practice Team, driving excellence in education, workforce development and advocacy across maternity services. You will provide strategic leadership to our Professional Midwifery Advocates, embedding the AEQUIP model and ensuring that professional practice, learning, and wellbeing are at the heart of how we deliver safe and outstanding care.
As a senior leader, you will play a key role in our Trust-wide culture improvement programme, aligning staff engagement, leadership behaviours and workforce development to our shared vision and values. You will champion a culture that is inclusive, supportive and focused on collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement.
If you are ready to lead a team that empowers midwives, supports wellbeing and shapes the culture of maternity services for the future, we’d love to hear from you.
Based at Birmingham Women’s Hospital site, with a need for visibility amongst clinical and operational teams.
The post holder will be responsible for the leadership and operational management of the Professional Practice Team, working collaboratively with the maternity Governance Team to drive the maternity safety agenda. They will have direct line management responsibility for their team, as outlined in the organisational structure chart.
The post holder will participate in the operational manager on-call rota for BWC (site based).
Further information of specific responsibilities and duties is below.
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dudu Nyathi Job title: Deputy Head of Midwifery Email address: duduzile.nyathi@nhs.net Telephone number: 07741603818
Jessica Atoklo - Associate Director of Nursing and Head of Midwifery 07385 002243
