Job overview

Are you a dynamic and experienced midwife looking to take the lead in ensuring safe and effective maternity care?

We are seeking a highly motivated Maternity Flow and Capacity Midwife to join our team in a shift-based role that is central to maintaining operational flow and patient safety across the Trust. In this leadership position, you will play a vital role in coordinating the Trust’s activity on a shift-to-shift basis, focusing on both acute and elective maternity admissions. Your responsibilities will include ensuring efficient service user flow, optimising bed utilisation through the coordination of admissions, transfers, and discharges, and acting as a senior midwifery lead during out-of-hours periods. You will provide clinical operational support to all on-site staff,  responding to security and clinical incidents, escalating concerns to appropriate on-call personnel as needed.

We are looking for a Registered Midwife with strong leadership skills, and a sound understanding of clinical coordination and bed management. If you are organised, decisive, and passionate about high-quality maternity care, this is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact. Join us and be part of a supportive and forward-thinking team dedicated to delivering exceptional outcomes for mothers and babies across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

All duties of the role are outlined in the job description and person specification. Please ensure that this has been read before submitting an application.  

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.