Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (on call and weekend working)
- Job ref
- 220-WHT-3231
- Employer
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whittington Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 Per annum exclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Midwifery Team Leader
Band 7
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Job overview
Midwifery Team Leader
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced midwife to join our community midwifery team as a team leader.
We look after a diverse population where women/birthing people and their families are treated as individuals providing personalised care.
We are at the forefront of innovation, this includes partners staying overnight, enhanced recovery, and midwifery led induction of labour and normalising birth. We work closely alongside Health Visitors who are also part of our integrated service.
We provide a first class service, which is reflected in the number of positive compliments received from our satisfied service users.
We have a beautiful Birth Centre with four pools and our Labour Ward has two birthing pools and telemetry to encourage normality.
Our midwives work a varied range of shifts and hours in all areas of midwifery including days, nights and weekends as well as an on call basis to support women birthing at home.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will lead a team of midwives providing both continuity of carer and traditional community midwifery services in Haringey and Islington, based at the Whittington hospital. The post holder will be responsible for delivering high quality antenatal, intrapartum and post natal care for women and their families, whilst aiding the team to meet the national ambitions for continuity of carer as well as key performance indicators such as antenatal and newborn screening targets and booking in for maternity care by 9+3 weeks gestation. Please see the job description for full details of our expectations.
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details. The current vacancy is as team leader for a team of midwives , providing continuity of carer models of care as well as traditional antenatal/postnatal model of care.
Person specification
education/qualifications
Essential criteria
- currently a registered midwife currently registered to practice
- minimum of 3 years post preceptorship experience
- mentorship qualification
knowledge & experience
Essential criteria
- evidence of continuous personal and professional development
- champion for midwifery led care
- have good knowledge of changing trends in relation to midwifery and midwifery care provision
Skills & abilities
Essential criteria
- experience and evidence of leadership, delegating work appropriately
- evidence and experience in setting and monitoring standards of care
- evidence of clinical skills such as cannulation and perineal suturing
- can practice as an autonomous midwife in acute and primary care setting
- can evidence ability to prioritise workload effectively
personal qualities
Essential criteria
- excellent communication skills
- evidence of effective interpersonal skills within difficult or challenging circumstances
- demonstrate a sensitive approach to the needs of women and their families
- evidence an understanding of the dynamics of working with a team
- evidence of professional maturity and problem solving skills
- evidence of reliability and good time management and punctuality
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
- Gillian de La Motte
- Job title
- Matron for Outpatients and Birth Centre
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02072885638
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
WHT
- Telephone
- If you have any queries, please contact NLPSS Recruitment Helpdesk tel. 020 3758 2060
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