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Deputy Head of MidwiferyNorth West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust • Peterborough, United Kingdom
Deputy Head of Midwifery

Deputy Head of Midwifery

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust • Peterborough, United Kingdom
4 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Permanent
Job description
Job summary

Shaping the Future of Maternity Services with Compassion and Leadership

Are you a passionate, dynamic and experienced midwifery leader ready to drive strategic and operational improvements in maternity services? We have an exciting opportunity for a Deputy Head of Midwifery (DHoM) to support and enable senior leadership, service development and transformation within a challenging and dynamic healthcare environment.

What We're Looking For:
  • A highly motivated, inspirational midwifery leader with a proven track record in maternity transformation and service improvement.
  • Strong strategic thinking and the ability to influence at local, regional and national levels.
  • Commitment to staff development, fostering a culture of professional growth, learning and continuous improvement.
  • A leader who can role model positive leadership behaviours, promoting a just culture and empowering midwives to drive quality improvements.

This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of maternity services, ensuring that our staff and service users receive the highest standards of care, support and experience.

Apply today and be part of a leadership team dedicated to excellence in maternity care !

Main duties of the job

As Deputy Head of Midwifery, you will:
  • Support the Head of Midwifery (HoM) in delivering strategic direction and operational oversight within maternity services.
  • Enhance safety and quality by implementing national and regional maternity recommendations.
  • Collaborate with key partners, including the Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) and Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP), ensuring co-production and patient-centred care.
  • Provide visible, accessible leadership, mentoring and coaching staff to foster innovation, resilience and excellence in maternity care.
  • Lead on service user engagement, supporting responses to concerns and ensuring clear, compassionate communication with women and families.
  • Champion equality, diversity, and inclusion, ensuring they are embedded in all service decisions.

About us

We are committed to supporting colleagues through organisational change. Priority will be given to staff at risk within North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care Board.

Details

Date posted: 07 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8b
Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 176-M-8095389-A
Job locations: Pansite Peterborough and Hinchinbrook Hospital, Peterborough, PE3 9GZ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

The detailed information of the requirements of this role are included in the job description and personal specification which are included and an informal visit to the trust to further discuss this is available to you should this be helpful.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential
  • First level Registered Midwife with NMC registration
  • Qualified to Masters level or evidence of post registration masters level study
  • Evidence of broad understanding of national midwifery policy
  • Evidence of recent and sustained professional development, relevant to the role
  • Evidence of leadership development training course
  • Evidence of previous experience as Deputy HoM
  • Experience in clinical governance

Desirable
  • Project Management training
  • Quality Improvement training

Experience and Knowledge

Essential
  • Extensive clinical and management experience in midwifery
  • Experience of successfully managing many services in a complex organisation; including people and budgetary management
  • Experience of managing disciplinary and capability processes, including regulatory referrals
  • Experience in preparation of information to present to a wide variety of audiences, internal and external to the trust
  • Demonstrated leadership experience at a senior level in maternity
  • Acute awareness and experience of developing an environment where equality, diversity and inclusion is prioritised in considered in all decisions

Desirable
  • Experience of working across other NHS organisations, or outside acute services such as region, system, or commissioning, for benchmarking purposes to support baseline service assessments to enable quality improvement
  • Experience of providing expert clinical leadership in collaboration with multidisciplinary staff across the organisation and external stakeholders
  • An in-depth understanding of the maternity governance framework, including how this is organised to support the progress with the maternity strategy and safe, quality services

Skills

Essential
  • Highly developed analytical and problem-solving skills; capable of interpreting and evaluating complex, multi-faceted information; ability to summarise complex information; ability to make judgements and advice on best course of action
  • Ability to collaborate constructively with all key stakeholders (internal and external) and to create the conditions for successful partnership working
  • Ability to provide a clear vision for change which is a source of inspiration and motivation for others
  • Highly skilled in identifying opportunities for partnership working, managing on going stakeholder relationships and providing support to others in this area.
  • Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams across the Trust
  • Highly developed communication skills to resolve complex, highimpact situations in highly complex environments, including communication of sensitive, distressing and contentious information and feedback.
  • High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement and flexibility in approach

Desirable
  • An in depth understanding of maternity workforce and governance framework to identify indicators for ensuring provision of safe maternity services
  • Highly attuned political awareness and perception of the potential outcome for actions and decisions, including how these are communicated

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).

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).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Pansite Peterborough and Hinchinbrook Hospital, Peterborough, PE3 9GZ, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.nwangliaft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:
Head of Midwifery
Elita Mazzocchi
elita.mazzocchi2@nhs.net
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