Job overview

We have an exciting cross-site opportunity to join us as a Band 8b Consultant Midwife for intrapartum care

Our maternity team provides a forward-thinking environment, offering comprehensive and high-quality care to women and their families. Our team are committed to promoting woman-centred, individualised care to a diverse population. 

• We care for approximately 4,300 women annually across our two sites, utilising digital maternity systems.
• Comprehensive Service Offering:  Includes assisted conception, community services, obstetric-led labour wards, birth centres, specialist midwifery teams, and home birth team. 
• Positive Feedback: Women and families consistently report positive experiences, highlighting the quality of care provided. The 2024 Maternity Benchmark survey demonstrated ESTH performed above average, particularly in postnatal care.
• Active Improvement Culture: Ongoing improvement projects that aim to enhance service delivery and workforce development.
• Collaboration with Local Maternity Systems 

The successful candidates will benefit from access to extensive in-house training and professional growth opportunities; working in as part of our welcoming, and supportive team; and being at the forefront of midwifery service provision. 

If you're ready to advance in your career or seeking a fresh opportunity, we'd love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

At Epsom and St Helier we pride ourselves in offering flexible working arrangements, a robust in service training package and a positive working culture.

• Provide expert clinical leadership across intrapartum services, supporting and advocating for midwives in complex and sensitive clinical situations while spending at least 50% of time in direct clinical practice.
• Lead the development of personalised care plans for women and families, particularly where needs fall outside standard guidance, working collaboratively with obstetric and multidisciplinary teams.
• Design, deliver, and evaluate the intrapartum education and training strategy, ensuring learning reflects national recommendations, incident themes, and best practice.
• Act as a professional role model and ambassador for midwifery, providing consultancy internally and externally and representing the Trust at regional and national forums. 
• Lead service development and quality improvement, including specialist pathways (e.g., breech, outside-criteria planning) and digital transformation initiatives.
• Promote effective governance, audit, and research, supporting evaluation of practice, preparation for external inspections, and expansion of midwifery-led research. 
• Provide professional leadership and line management, supporting staff development, performance management, and safe coordination of intrapartum activity.

Working for our organisation

ESTH is a family of nearly 8000 colleagues, serving a population of over 490,000 people in south west London and north east Surrey. Nearly 900,000 patients come to our hospitals for treatment every year. We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life.

As teaching hospitals working alongside our partnered universities, we play a vital role in the education and development of midwives, doctors and other health professionals. Benefits to working for ESTH are vast, including career development, community, staff benefits, staff wellbeing services, transportation incentives, on-site nursery (STH) and our accredited Simulation Centre.

After years of collaboration with St. Georges, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021, creating GESH. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.