Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Midwife
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About The Role
The Consultant Midwife is an expert clinical practitioner, professional leader, and strategic partner who will shape the development of safe, personalised, equitable, and evidence-based maternity care across Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Working across the four pillars of expert practice; professional leadership and consultancy; education and workforce development; and service development, research, and evaluation, the postholder will maintain a visible clinical contribution and provide authoritative advice in complex and uncertain clinical circumstances.
The postholder will work with women, families, staff, multidisciplinary partners, and the Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership to identify priorities, co-produce improvement, and ensure that service redesign responds to lived experience, clinical evidence, and variation in access, experience, and outcomes. They will support implementation of learning from national maternity and neonatal reviews, local reviews, incidents, complaints, audit, and research, and will build workforce capability for innovation and sustained improvement.
About You
You will be an experienced senior midwife with a strong track record of leadership, service improvement, and staff development. You will demonstrate credibility, compassion, and resilience, with the ability to influence at a senior level and lead teams through change while maintaining high standards of care.
Role Summary
- Provide expert, autonomous clinical leadership in complex and uncertain maternity care, offering advice on clinical decision-making, escalation, referral, and transfer of care.
- Maintain a visible clinical presence of up to 50% of the role, supporting women with complex needs and enabling midwives to practise confidently and autonomously.
- Champion equitable, culturally responsive care, challenging bias and addressing variation in access, experience, and outcomes.
- Provide strategic professional leadership, working across organisational boundaries to drive service redesign, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Work with women, families, the MNVP, and system partners to co-produce improvements and ensure lived experience, safety, workforce, and outcome data inform service development.
- Contribute to maternity strategy, regional and national networks, deputise for the Director of Midwifery, and participate in the on-call rota.
- Lead education and workforce development, working with higher education, governance, and improvement teams to translate learning into practice and strengthen clinical judgement, leadership, and improvement capability.
- Lead audit, evaluation, and evidence-based practice, using clinical, workforce, experience, and disaggregated perinatal data to identify variation and improvement priorities.
- Promote research participation, evaluate the impact and equity of service changes, and disseminate learning and best practice.
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Our Vision
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
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Our Cultural Ambition
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement, and excellence thrive.
Specialist Services
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
About Us
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Your Next Career Move Made Easier – Accommodation May Be Offered
We understand relocating can be a big step. Hampshire Hospitals may be able to provide accommodation options for successful candidates, depending on availability. If this is something you would like to explore, please contact Southern Housing on 02080 360017.
For Further Details / Informal Visits
Contact Person:
- Name: Wendy Randall
- Job Title: Director of Midwifery
- Email Address: wendy.randall@hhft.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 07745306997
Alternatively Contact:
- Name: Liz Macleod
- Job Title: Head of Midwifery
- Email Address: liz.macleod@hhft.nhs.uk
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