Job summary
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 agendasstrategic 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
About us
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
Job description
Job 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 andcentred 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.
Job description
Job 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 andcentred 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
- 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
- Track record of collaborative research activity, including successful project bids
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
- 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
- PhD or other doctoral level qualification (or nearing completion).
- Teaching qualification or HEA Fellowship.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to inspire, influence and motivate others.
- Extensive experience of collaborative working with other organisations or partners. o
- 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
- 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.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- 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
- Track record of collaborative research activity, including successful project bids
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
- 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
- PhD or other doctoral level qualification (or nearing completion).
- Teaching qualification or HEA Fellowship.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to inspire, influence and motivate others.
- Extensive experience of collaborative working with other organisations or partners. o
- 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
- 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.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
