Senior Midwife - Ward 314

Job summary

Are you an experienced midwife motivated and ready for your next development opportunity. If so, there has never been a more exciting time to join the Senior Midwifery team and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a forward thinking, dynamic and pro-active Midwifery Ward Manager on Ward 314/315 - Maternity Ward on the Royal Derby Hospital site.

We are a a large progressive maternity service which embraces innovation and strives to deliver exceptional care together in partnership with women, families and external stakeholders.

You must have a passion for providing excellent midwifery care and can provide leadership and motivation for a busy team of Midwives and Support Workers. The successful candidate will work alongside the existing Senior Midwife, to manage a 61 bedded mixed antenatal/postnatal and transitional care ward.

You must be able to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills to maintain an effective and coordinated approach to ward management by both Senior Midwives. The successful candidate will have an individual portfolio with an initial remit for postnatal care. They will have an exciting opportunity to develop the ward area to improve the services for the women and their babies.

Main duties of the job

As a senior midwife you will take overall responsibility and accountability in ensuring women, babies and families receive safe, clinically effective, women centred care across the whole maternity care pathway. You will lead by example, offer expert midwifery clinical advice, operationally support and manage teams and services ensuring the delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate midwifery care.

You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver care to women and babies within acute clinical environments whose needs are complex. You will work flexibly across the service in supporting the delivery of midwifery care, using a range of service models, including continuity of carer.

Senior midwives provide expert clinical and professional midwifery leadership and are accountable for the women, babies, public and staff experience. This will be in line with local, Trust wide and national policies, procedures, values and behaviours.

Closing date of applications: 20 January 2026

Interview date: 2 February 2026

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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