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Job summary

Main area
Womens and Children
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
162-7546-WC
Employer
Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Maternity Management
Town
Romford
Salary
£53,751 - £60,651 Per Annum HCA inclusive
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
25/01/2026 23:59

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Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Band 7 Recruitment & Retention Lead Midwife

Band 7

 

PEOPLE are at the HEART of everything we do

This video gives a flavour of what it is like to work at our Trust and why some of our staff love working here 💙

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lePIUCfMPLk

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Midwifery Education Team at BHRUT. We are looking to recruit a midwife for the role of Recruitment and retention midwife, who is enthusiastic, motivated, clinically astute. As part of the education team your responsibility will be to consider innovative and supportive methods for focusing upon retention within the midwifery team. This role will be 50% clinical.

Main duties of the job

The aim of this role is to lead on and coordinate recruitment and retention activities and the associated administration for the Maternity Department. 

Liaise closely with the maternity matrons, the Lead education midwife as well as the HR Department and Trust recruitment team.  Co-ordinate local recruitment activities ensure the recruitment process is undertaken in accordance with Trust policy.

Contribute to the ongoing development, implementation and review of the maternity department recruitment and retention strategies and objectives.

The post holder will be required to provide support within a 24/7 work system as required (expectation is to work 1-2 weekends a month, clinically). The role will be based predominantly in the clinical environment.

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. 

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission. 

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care. 

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in this film.  

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role.  Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process or assistance with completion of the form (for applicants with a disability) can be made to Rachna Srivastava, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5904. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details below

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Midwife
Desirable criteria
  • Masters Degree in relevant subject (evidence of working towards i.e. already on pathway)

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Post Registration experience
  • Experience of leadership, supporting, teaching and assessing learners
Desirable criteria
  • Experience at Band 7

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Pauline Okhamesan
Job title
Head of Midwifery
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01708435000
Additional information

Ext 2889