Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Midwifery Ante-Natal Services - RVI
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2025-39-025-VA1
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Victoria Infirmary
- Town
- 317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/11/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/11/2025
Employer heading
Consultant Midwife
Band 8a
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
Are you an experienced Midwife and Obstetric Sonographer within the field of Fetal Medicine?
Are you a clinical expert in practice, research, education and leadership in Fetal Medicine and Obstetric Ultrasound?
Are you an enthusiastic and dynamic individual committed to delivering safe, high-quality care as part of a team?
Yes? Then we want to hear from you!
The Fetal Medicine Service at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals is the tertiary referral centre for the North East and North Cumbria, and as part of a multi-disciplinary team you will provide leadership and midwifery direction to inform the future evolution of the Service.
This is a new role and therefore provides an exciting opportunity to influence and introduce equitable and effective care pathways locally, regionally and nationally whilst championing the role of the Midwife.
- Interview Date Friday 21 November 2025
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
You will provide expert practice, advice and consultancy for patients, carers and colleagues, within the area of Fetal Medicine both locally and nationally. You will lead practice and service developments, ensuring the maintenance of clinical excellence, underpinned by evidence based practice. To do this you will undertake complex audit projects, using research methodology designs to evaluate inter-professional systems, which aim to maintain quality in line with local and national guidelines, and will work towards the initiation of research.
You will act as role model both clinically and professionally to represent the Fetal Medicine Service and wider Perinatal Service to influence the development of the profession locally and nationally and will deliver and shape the development of multi-professional education and training locally and nationally.
Working for our organisation
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be a clinical expert in Fetal Medicine and Obsteric Ultrasound and will provide leadership and midwifery direction to inform the future evolution of Fetal Medicine and any relevant Specialist Commissioned Services in Newcastle and across the North East and North Cumbria. The post holder will fulfil the four domains of the NMAHP Consultant function:
1. Advanced and expert level practice within the field of Fetal Medicine.
2. Leadership and consultancy.
3. Development and provision of education and training
4. Service development, evaluation, research and audit.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- • Registered Midwife
- • Current NMC registration
- • Possession of a Master’s Degree or established on pathway and able to provide evidence of academic achievement at this level
- • Evidence of specialist education related to area of clinical expertise
Desirable criteria
- • Possession of or working towards a Doctorate
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of Supervision and assessment in practice
- • Knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context
- • Has understanding / experience of adult / child safeguarding
- • Highly developed advanced specialist in field and applies theory to practice
- • Has expert knowledge in practice, research, education, and leadership in specialist area and within the field of your profession
- • Extensive experience of clinical work in specialist area
- • Audit / research experience
- • Extensive clinical and leadership experience in the specialist field
- • Experience of contributing to the development of your profession at a regional / national level
Desirable criteria
- • Experience / evidence of professional leadership in relation to their service at a regional and/or national level
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Good IT skills
- • Effective report writing skills
- • Effective organisation and time management skills
- • Ability to prioritise a complex workload and work in a rapidly changing environment
- • Acts autonomously and independently within appropriate organisational boundaries and achieve results and outcomes based on own decision making
- • Is able to assimilate risk / benefits and rationalise decision based on extensive knowledge, skills & experience
- • Current driving licence if relevant to role
- • Moving and handling patients and objects in line with Trust guidelines using appropriate aids
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
- Lucy Patterson
- Job title
- Senior Midwife
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912829929
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