Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-E-257202
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 03/10/2025
Employer heading
Safety & Quality Implementation Midwife
Band 7
Job overview
We are looking for a motivated midwife to take a lead role in development and implementation of clinical guidance, supporting staff in maternity audit and championing safety and compliance-related learning.
Reporting to the lead midwife for quality and patient experience the post-holder will provide expert leadership by supporting safe, evidence based practice across the maternity service. The post provides an excellent opportunity to undertake clinical audit, work on quality projects and monitor and improve existing care pathways. You will work with the multidisciplinary team on guideline updates and development and you will also be responsible for overseeing patient information leaflets, providing the opportunity to work with the Rosie Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership.
Main duties of the job
As well as a strong knowledge of existing clinical guidance and its application in practice, the post-holder will need key skills in appraisal and implementation of evidence into maternity clinical practice, and subsequent monitoring of its effectiveness.
The post-holder will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong organisational skills, effective IT skills, and the ability to work with all staff groups at all levels. They will also have the ability to produce, manage and present quality and safety related data. The successful candidate will be able to work within a busy and enthusiastic team, able to meet deadlines and adapt to a challenging and varied workload.
This is a senior midwifery role within the organisation and the post-holder will be expected to participate in the provision of a professionally competent, efficient and effective service. The post-holder responsibilities also include taking the 984 bleep and line management within the team.
Working for our organisation
Come Nurse with us…
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start
For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 21 September 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 3 October 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Evidence of professional continuous development and portfolio of learning
- Degree in Midwifery or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- Masters degree or working towards
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate an expert working knowledge of midwifery in all areas of the maternity service
- Evidence of relevant clinical updating
- Evidence of leadership
- Experience of academic report writing / ability to interpret and apply evidence.
- Involvement with clinical audit
- Use of computerised information system
Desirable criteria
- Involvement with research
- Participation and contribution to local Regional/National maternity forums.
- Experience in engaging with service users and interpreting feedback into service improvements
- Experience of implementation of nationally mandated initiatives into local practice.
- Experience of using data to inform clinical effectiveness based decisions.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Aware of current research and its impact on evidence based care.
- Conversant with NMC rules governing practice
- Demonstrate awareness and working knowledge of clinical governance
- Knowledge of current reports/guidelines relating to Maternity Care and their implication
- Knowledge of CQC in relation to maternity services.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of clinical effectiveness.
- Awareness of current nationally mandated schemes / care bundles and evidence.
Skills
Essential criteria
- To be able to practice in all clinical areas
- Well developed interpersonal and counselling skills
- Excellent communications skills
- Ability in perineal suturing, cannulation, I.V. drug additives and epidural management
- Able to demonstrate contribution to changing practice
- Demonstrate effective clinical leadership ability and role modelling
- Implementation of evidence based practice
- IT literate
Desirable criteria
- Well-developed leadership skills
- Presentation skills
- Report writing skills
- Change management skills
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to travel between the Trust and the community services, as required
- Support and develop midwifery-led care
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kimberley Skinner
- Job title
- Lead Midwife for Quality and Patient Experience
- Email address
- [email protected]
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