• Job Description

  Req#: C9196-25-0730?language=en&page=1008&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Evelina London, part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is excited to announce an excellent opportunity to join our committed team as a Consultant Midwife. Do you have expert midwifery skills and a passion for providing high quality, personalised care to women? Do you have the ability to develop and maintain key working relationships with internal and external key stakeholders to achieve outstanding woman centred care? Are you looking to make a real difference to women and staff experiences? Are you able to inspire and motivate highly skilled, multi-professional teams?

  If this is you then an exciting opportunity has arisen to join the maternity services leadership team at Guy's & St. Thomas' Trust as a Consultant Midwife. This role will involve having the clinical expertise to provide exceptional standards of midwifery care and ensuring women's birth choices and experiences are of the highest quality. You will work closely with the Chief Midwife and Maternity Service Leads to ensure that we continue to deliver outstanding maternity services, which is an ambitious service and continuously improving.

  Interview date: 21st May 2025

  Main duties of the job

  We are looking for a highly motivated, innovative, forward thinking midwife with an extensive experience in maternity care to provide effective, visible clinical and professional leadership for the midwifery and medical teams. You will have an excellent record in midwifery leadership, and will be able to demonstrate a commitment to help delivery of strategic ambitions, and role model exceptional midwifery skills to meet women's needs whilst working cohesively with the wider multi-disciplinary team.

  About us

  Evelina London is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With over 3,000 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share. We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy's and St Thomas' Trust Executive Board.

  As the only NHS Trust in London with women's and specialist children's services on one site we have unique opportunities to provide excellent, high-quality, integrated care for mothers, babies and children. Our directorate provides high quality care to patients across South East London, as well as delivering a range of specialist services both nationally and internationally. We treat approximately 40,000 gynaecology patients, and care for 6,400 women giving birth, which includes around 300 private births a year. We have one of the largest specialist neonatal intensive care units in England as well as one of the largest NHS IVF units in the UK, which includes our flagship Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis services. Alongside our clinical services, we are integrated with colleagues at Kings College London, delivering a significant programme of research and development.

  Details

  Date posted

  23 April 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8c

  Salary

  £82,462 to £93,773 a year per annum inc HCA

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  196-SMT1714

  Job locations

  St. Thomas Hospital

  Westminster Bridge Road

  London

  SE1 7EH

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see attached documentation for detailed job description.

  Candidates invited to interview will also complete a stakeholder engagement exercise. The details for this will be confirmed when candidates receive invitations to interview.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see attached documentation for detailed job description.

  Candidates invited to interview will also complete a stakeholder engagement exercise. The details for this will be confirmed when candidates receive invitations to interview.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Current Registration as a registered Midwife
  • Masters Degree in relevant subject or working towards completion of a Masters Degree
  • Leadership qualification or equivalent experience
  • Expert midwifery practitioner

  Desirable

  • Recognised teaching qualification
  • Willing to undertake PhD
  • Supervisor of Midwives or Professional Midwifery Advocate

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Expert knowledge of midwifery and birth in all care settings
  • Practised advanced midwifery skills in all aspects of clinical midwifery
  • In-depth knowledge of health policy
  • Knowledge of quality standard setting and audit
  • Research skills
  • Demonstrable leadership skills, including ability to influence change
  • Ability to influence, motivate and inspire others. Negotiating and ability to resolve conflict.
  • Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory & practice

  Desirable

  • Managing a clinical area
  • Examination of the newborn qualification
  • Experience of academic published work or research

  Skills

  Essential

  • Proven ability to manage change effectively within an operational environment, building engagement and involvement and rewarding innovation.

  Desirable

  • Influence via regional and national level roles

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Current Registration as a registered Midwife
  • Masters Degree in relevant subject or working towards completion of a Masters Degree
  • Leadership qualification or equivalent experience
  • Expert midwifery practitioner

  Desirable

  • Recognised teaching qualification
  • Willing to undertake PhD
  • Supervisor of Midwives or Professional Midwifery Advocate

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Expert knowledge of midwifery and birth in all care settings
  • Practised advanced midwifery skills in all aspects of clinical midwifery
  • In-depth knowledge of health policy
  • Knowledge of quality standard setting and audit
  • Research skills
  • Demonstrable leadership skills, including ability to influence change
  • Ability to influence, motivate and inspire others. Negotiating and ability to resolve conflict.
  • Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory & practice

  Desirable

  • Managing a clinical area
  • Examination of the newborn qualification
  • Experience of academic published work or research

  Skills

  Essential

  • Proven ability to manage change effectively within an operational environment, building engagement and involvement and rewarding innovation.

  Desirable

  • Influence via regional and national level roles

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  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).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  St. Thomas Hospital

  Westminster Bridge Road

  London

  SE1 7EH

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  St. Thomas Hospital

  Westminster Bridge Road

  London

  SE1 7EH

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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