University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Band 7 Midwifery Led Care Unit Manager
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Job Summary
Are you an experienced and motivated midwife with a passion for leadership, quality improvement, and delivering outstanding woman-centred care?
We are seeking an enthusiastic Midwifery leader to manage our Midwifery Led Care service at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and influence care within a low-risk birth setting, ensuring women and families receive safe, personalised, and compassionate care throughout their maternity journey.
As Unit Manager, you will provide visible clinical and operational leadership, fostering a culture of excellence, continuous improvement, and innovation. You will work alongside a highly skilled multidisciplinary team to maintain high standards of care, support staff development, and ensure the service continues to evolve in line with national maternity ambitions and local priorities.
We are looking for an inspiring leader who is passionate about physiological birth, committed to delivering exceptional experiences, and motivated to develop both services and people. This role offers excellent opportunities to lead service improvements, influence future practice, and contribute to the ongoing development of maternity services across UHB.
If you are an experienced midwife ready to take the next step in your leadership career and want to make a real difference to women, families, and staff, we would love to hear from you.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
The Midwifery-Led Care Unit Manager has responsibility for the operational and professional leadership of the unit, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and compassionate care. The successful candidate will lead and support the team, promote evidence-based practice, and ensure high standards of clinical care, governance, and patient experience are consistently achieved.
Key responsibilities include:
- Workforce leadership
- Staff development
- Performance management
- Budget oversight
- Capacity management
- Clinical governance
- Risk management
- Quality improvement
You will oversee audit activity, support learning from incidents and complaints, and lead initiatives that enhance safety, outcomes, and families' experience.
You will be highly visible within the clinical environment, acting as a role model for professional practice and fostering a positive culture where staff feel valued, supported, and empowered to deliver exceptional care. The role requires excellent communication, organisational, and leadership skills, alongside the ability to work collaboratively across professional boundaries and manage competing priorities within a dynamic maternity service.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced registered midwife with proven leadership experience, strong clinical credibility, a commitment to continuous improvement, and a passion for promoting safe, personalised care for women and families.
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About Us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value, and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values-driven in all that we do, and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such, we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long-term health condition, mental health, or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job Description
Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife on NMC register
Desirable
- Healthcare management / Leadership Qualification
Experience
Essential
- Professional Portfolio which demonstrates continuing professional development, evidence of ability to maintain professional registration
- Substantial relevant and recent clinical experience within a complex health care setting or Acute NHS setting working as a deputy Manager Band 6 position including the supervision and education of junior staff/students.
- Can demonstrate understanding / experience / in practice-based supervision / assessment as detailed in the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) standards for student supervision and assessment
- Demonstrable current, recent experience of team leadership and management within the healthcare setting.
- Demonstrable understanding of the management responsibility for pay and non-pay resources associated with the clinical service.
- Evidence of effective multi-professional working.
- Experience of being a mentor
- Demonstration of a significant contribution to innovative practice or change management
- Experience in interviewing and selection of staff
- Experience in learning from incidents/complaints and supporting changes in practice
Demonstrable ability, experience, passion in the following areas:
- Leadership
- Team building
- Managing Resources
- Time management
- Role modelling
- Change management/clinical developments
- Clinical governance
- Audit and research
- Workforce planning / management
- NHS policy and political awareness
- Knowledge of clinical governance
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Additional Criteria
Essential
- Demonstrates the key strengths and* motivators for relating to others.
- Competence in expanded clinical practice associated with the role.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- I.T skills
- Proven ability to analyse data and identify data trends
- Able to effectively present information to groups /healthcare professionals.
- Ability to work under pressure across competing demands /properties.
- Positive and enthusiastic attitude
- Approachable and friendly
- Supportive
- Flexible
- Well organised
- Good communicator
- Ability to delegate and supervise
TBC at appointment
- Willingness to work core shift patterns for the area Monday to Friday with occasional out of hours /weekend working
OR
- Undertake a range of shift patterns to cover 24/7 period when working as part of a peer group with occasions of out of hours / weekend working
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.
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.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information, please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Ellen Pike
Email: Ellen.Pike@uhb.nhs.uk
Phone: 01214247092
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9018782
Job locations
Trustwide
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
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Job Description
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