A opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife to join our band 7 team.
The post holder will be a clearly identifiable and essential senior clinical member of the team responsible for undertaking a hybrid role, providing senior clinical shift support to the Maternity helpline, ambulatory service and coordination of the Labour Ward. They will have significant clinical experience, providing sound expertise to ensure delivery of high quality, safe and compassionate evidence based care.
The post holder will be responsible for delivering and supporting the team to provide an exemplary service that promotes evidence based care and advice to all women/birthing people, families who seek care and advice. They will be responsible for assessing and delivering maternity care that meets the needs of women and birthing people in the appropriate clinical area.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of England’s top-performing and safest trusts. We operate two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital—along with award-winning clinics across North West London.
Our nearly 7,500 staff care for a diverse population of 1.5 million, providing full clinical services, including maternity, A&E, and children’s services, plus specialist HIV and sexual health clinics. The Care Quality Commission rates us ‘Good’ in safety, effectiveness, care, and responsiveness, and ’Outstanding’ in leadership and resource use.
We continually invest in our facilities, including a £30m expansion of critical care at Chelsea and Westminster and an £80m Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex.
We are committed to equal opportunities and believe that diversity drives innovation and excellence. As part of our dedication to equity, we actively welcome applications from individuals from the global majority, veterans and underrepresented communities. We value the unique perspectives and experiences that diverse teams bring and are committed to creating an environment where all voices are heard, respected, and empowered to succeed.”
If you haven’t heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, your application was likely unsuccessful. Employment is subject to a six-month probationary period.
Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites.

Professional

• Promote and work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct, Trust Policies and Professional guidelines.
• Promote evidence based practice.
• Keep professionally updated to ensure the provision of a quality service and to meet the requirements of the professional code of practice and service provision, e.g. NMC standards.

Critically reflect on own performance through peer / team, network, clinical supervision and appraisal.

Delegate tasks and activities to a range of team members ensuring that the staff has the appropriate level of experience and knowledge.

• To meet the evolving needs of the organisation, the post holder may also be required to work flexibly providing cover in agreed areas following appropriate discussion.
• To lead on the identification of areas requiring quality improvement, to support the development and delivery of Quality and safety agenda.
• To provide specialist advice and support to staff.
• To ensure the department is compliant with Trust wide quality priorities and requirements.
• To support the development of a learning culture within the service, ensuring key areas of learning, shared, understood and embedded within the service.
• To work collaboratively with the Trust’s Patient Experience Team, Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) etc. monitoring that services user’s feedback remain central to quality agenda.
• Maintain full compliance with own mandatory and statutory training.

• To meet the evolving needs of the organisation, the post holder may also be required to work flexibly providing cover in agreed areas following appropriate discussion.
• To lead on the identification of areas requiring quality improvement, to support the development and delivery of Quality and safety agenda.
• To provide specialist advice and support to staff.
• To ensure the department is compliant with Trust wide quality priorities and requirements.
• To support the development of a learning culture within the service, ensuring key areas of learning, shared, understood and embedded within the service.
• To work collaboratively with the Trust’s Patient Experience Team, Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) etc. monitoring that services user’s feedback remain central to quality agenda.
• Maintain full compliance with own mandatory and statutory training