Site Safety Midwife

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Site Safety Midwife

The closing date is 26 October 2025

We are looking to appoint a Senior Midwife with relevant operational understanding to join our site safety team adding to our exciting structure providing quality and safety for operational working across our service at The Rosie Hospital. You will provide clinical and operational nursing and midwifery leadership, with support and direction of the senior team, across the Trust during the week, night shifts, weekends & Bank Holidays.

You will join a team of other experienced Band 7 midwives to ensure our service remains safe, kind and excellent; in the deployment of safe staffing across all our areas to maintain flow through the Unit. An understanding of staffing red flags, nursing and midwifery acuity and quality improvement methodology would be an advantage.

We are proud of our maternity service and are on an exciting maternity improvement journey. You will be supported within your role by the senior leadership team and personal and professional growth is encouraged.

You are part of the Cambridge and Peterborough Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS).

Main duties of the job

- Providing clinical and operational nursing and midwifery leadership with support and direction of the Manager of the Day (MOTD) across the Trust during the week, night shifts, weekends & Bank Holidays.

- Maintaining a visible professional presence where patients, carers and staff can turn for senior assistance, advice and support, ensuring that the fundamental and specialist aspects of care are met.

- Being responsible for the provision of a safe, effective and progressive nursing and midwifery service to patients.

- Supporting the Midwifery Manager of the Day (MOTD) in ensuring that services meet agreed targets within the resources available.

- Managing staff and being accountable for the quality of services (both clinical and non‑clinical) delivered within the span of authority, including redeployment of staff to meet the needs of the service across the trust.

- Participating in specified projects and areas of improvement work which reflect clinical, professional and corporate aims.

About us

Come Nurse with us...

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It's a great place to nurse, work and live.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health‑care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.

Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?

• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
• applied for a Graduate visa
• successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
• the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 26 October 2025.

Interviews are due to be held on 12 November 2025.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose‑created colleague‑only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work‑life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part‑time working, job‑share, term‑time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Person Specification

Qualifications

- Current and relevant registration on NMC

- Evidence of continuous professional development

- ILS

- NBLS

- Recent attendance on a leadership development programme

- Senior Midwife Post at ward level

- Management/leadership training

Experience

- Some experience of managing a ward/unit

- Success in working collaboratively across professions and services

- Experience of operational bleep

- Research experience

- Demonstrable success in managing change

- Introduced evidence based practice

- Highly developed clinical and operational knowledge and experience gained through in‑depth experience and study

Knowledge

- Clinical practice demonstrable knowledge of developments in nursing and midwifery policy and practice

- Clinical governance and risk

- Patient flow, divert and escalation policy

- SafeCare and Health rostering to support safe staffing.

- Revalidation process

- The importance of successful partnership working.

- Principles of lifelong learning

- Professional education and training

- Workforce planning, recruitment and retention

- Strategic Health

- Knowledge, understanding of the Maternity Transformation Programme and aims of the work stream - 'transforming the workforce'.

Skills

- Ability to lead and motivate and empower others.

- Communication skills including: Interpersonal skills, writing and presentation skills.

- Advising and influencing senior managers in relation to risk management and quality improvement.

- Basic Newborn life support

- Developing and implementing policies, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion.

- Ability to prioritise work, meet tight deadlines and work independently

- Positive and effective team worker

- Ability to think strategically and plan ahead

- Aptitude to undertake advanced patient assessment & clinical practice.

- Liaison and negotiation skills

- Ability to manage highly complex clinical and operational situations that involve staff from all levels within an organisation, in circumstances where information is often conflicting or not fully known.

Additional Requirements

- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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