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Job summary

Main area
Midwifery
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
230-52774701-WCS-D
Employer
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
George Eliot Hospital
Town
Nuneaton
Salary
£64,455 - £74,896 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/09/2025 23:59

Employer heading

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust logo

Consultant Midwife

NHS AfC: Band 8b

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.

The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.

Our vision is "to EXCEL at patient care". If you think you've got what it takes, help us realise this and join #TeamEliot.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour aren’t as likely to apply unless they meet every qualification of non specialist roles.

We’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role and meet our values, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with everything in the Job Description or Person Specification– apply anyway or email the Recruiting Manager to discuss the role further 

We are proud to support the Armed Forces community. We are a Veteran Aware and Reservist Friendly organisation and welcome applications from Veterans, Reservists, Cadet Instructors, and family members of serving personnel. 

 

Job overview

Consultant Midwife

37.5 hours per week

Permanent

Salary: £64,455 - £74,896 per annum

Closing Date: 17th September 2025

Interview Date: TBC

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day. 

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces Community – get in touch to find out more

#JoinTeamEliot

Are you ready to shape the future of maternity care?

We’re looking for an exceptional Consultant Midwife to help lead a transformative journey in maternity services at George Eliot NHS Trust and the wider foundation group.

Your Impact

  • This isn’t just a job, it’s a legacy. You’ll influence policy, shape care, and empower midwives and the wider MDT to meet the evolving needs of our community. 

Main duties of the job

As a dynamic and visionary leader, you’ll champion high-quality, evidence-based care for over 2,000 women and babies annually. Working within a committed multidisciplinary team, you’ll help design and deliver innovative midwifery models while ensuring the workforce is skilled, empowered, and future ready.

What You’ll Do

  • Guide and Strengthen midwifery's role in the national quality and safety agenda.
  • Lead service development through professional leadership, research, and training.
  • Support vulnerable women through continuity of care.
  • Collaborate with safeguarding and specialist midwives to address health inequalities, teenage pregnancy, domestic violence, smoking cessation, mental health and promote the public health agenda.
  • Show a commitment to maternity transformation through education, practice development, and evidence-based innovation
  • Serve as one of the Trust’s maternity ambassador, representing excellence locally and nationally
  • Co-lead professional elements of the maternity transformation programme
  • Support clinical governance, patient experience, and continuity of care agendas strategic partnerships within the LMNS and with the Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership

Who You Are

  • A confident expert across all areas of maternity care
  • A strategic thinker and compassionate leader.
  • Passionate about supporting individualised care.
  • Someone who truly understands the impact of midwifery at every stage, preconception, antenatal, postnatal, and beyond

Working for our organisation

Here at George Eliot our vision to excel at patient care’  takes centre stage.  An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do.  Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits:  On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus  bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

If you are applying for a Domestic Assistant or Health Care Assistant role you may be eligible for the refer a friend scheme – find out more here: https://www.geh.nhs.uk/about-us/people-and-workforce/vacancies/refer-friend-scheme

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • The post holder will work closely with midwifery practice and our obstetric and neonatal colleagues to develop the provision continuity of carer pathways, provide and manage a Birth Choices clinic.
  • Develop the provision of personalised care plans for all women In partnership with the midwives, medical staff and maternity and Neonatal voices partnership.
  • The Consultant midwife will promote integration of antenatal, intra- partum and postnatal care, creating a seamless safe and  personalised care pathway through pregnancy, labour and birth and postnatal period for women with specific obstetric, midwifery or medical needs.

  • The Consultant Midwife will work across professional and organisational boundaries to develop local services that meet national and international benchmarks, which are accessible, acceptable, clinically effective and 
    centred in evidence-based practice.
  • This requires the post holder to innovate, work without precedent, 
    process complex information, overcome barriers in communication and negotiate positive change.
  • The post holder will act as an expert advisor and ambassador for George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust. 
  • Our desire as a health and academic economy is to develop critical, competent, and compassionate practitioners who can make a positive contribution to and impact upon midwifery practice.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.

Person specification

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of professional development and research.
  • Extensive knowledge, understanding of and credibility in current midwifery practice.
  • A substantial track record and effective contribution to midwifery.
Desirable criteria
  • Track record of collaborative research activity, including successful project bids

Qualification(s) and Professional Training

Essential criteria
  • Current registration with the NMC as a midwife.
  • Recordable midwifery teacher qualification.
  • Educated to master’s level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level
Desirable criteria
  • PhD or other doctoral level qualification (or nearing completion).
  • Teaching qualification or HEA Fellowship.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to inspire, influence and motivate others.
  • Extensive experience of collaborative working with other organisations or partners. •
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to communicate confidently and clearly with a range of people including students, tutors, managers, representatives of external organisations and the public, both orally and in writing.
  • Knowledge and experience of quality assurance and enhancement and specifically, professional approval, accreditation and monitoring by the NMC.
  • Evidence of strategic leadership responsibilities in education and service development.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of on-going continuing professional development.
  • Emotionally resilient to be able to support complex births and service users through highly emotional circumstances
  • Able to concentrate for prolonged periods of time and in a busy environment where they are likely to be frequent interruptions.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.CTP The Ministry of Defence partnering with Right ManagementDisability confident employerStep into healthPride In Veterans

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Natasha Stringer
Job title
Head of midwifery and neonates
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07570065836
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