Job summary
- Main area
- Midwife
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-CR-966
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Safeguarding Support Midwife
Band 7
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Following a promotion, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) is seeking to appoint a Safeguarding Midwife to join our dedicated maternity safeguarding team on a full-time basis. This post is currently a band 7.
At ICHT, we are proud to be at the heart of the NHS. As one of the UK’s largest acute trusts, we exemplify the excellence, ambition, and values that have defined the NHS for over 70 years.
About the Role
The maternity safeguarding team operates as part of a wider integrated safeguarding service, which includes children’s and adults’ safeguarding, domestic abuse, modern slavery, learning disability, and autism. This full-time role may involve some weekend working, as we currently provide a six-day service across our two maternity sites: St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, and Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital, Hammersmith.
The post-holder will play a pivotal role in ensuring compliance with statutory safeguarding responsibilities, including those outlined in Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023), the Health and Social Care Act (2012), and the Children Acts (1989 and 2004). The role also aligns with the Care Quality Commission’s core standards.
Main duties of the job
- Provide effective leadership on all aspects of the safeguarding children agenda, maintaining clinical and professional competence.
- Deliver expert safeguarding advice and support, particularly in complex, emotive, or sensitive cases.
- Offer operational guidance to ensure compliance with national legislation, local policies, and Trust standards and support strategic implementations.
- Promote early identification and management of safeguarding concerns through leadership, education, research, and best practice.
- Demonstrate advanced skills and legal literacy in safeguarding and family law to influence care pathways.
- Contribute to and initiate research to support evidence-based safeguarding practices.
- Support Named Midwife in collaborating strategically with external partners and agencies.
Interview Process
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to participate in a focus group, deliver a presentation, and attend a formal interview.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Evidence of continuing CPD
- Masters Degree in relevant subject or willing to undertake/working towards. · Teaching qualification, e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent.
- Up-to-date safeguarding training children and adults 1-3
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification preferable
- Child protection qualification
- Recent safeguarding education
- Safeguarding supervision course
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent written communication skills
- Sound IT skills
- Awareness of current professional issues within midwifery.
- Undertake regular supervision
- Awareness of current professional issues within midwifery/NHS
- Awareness of equality and diversity
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of Health and Safety issues.
- Presentation skills
- Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality issues
- Knowledge of current safeguarding legislation/guidance
- Knowledge regarding Domestic Abuse/Modern Slavery & Contextual Safeguarding
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Anna Robinson
- Job title
- Named Midwife for Safeguarding CYP
- Email address
- [email protected]
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