Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent and Fixed Term/Secondment posts available
- Hours
- 23 hours per week (Two posts available (23 or 28.75 hours per week) - Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered)
- Job ref
- 180-E-257303
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/01/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 13/01/2026
Employer heading
Site Safety Midwife
Band 7
Job overview
We are looking to appoint a Senior Midwife with relevant operational understanding to join our site safety team adding to our exciting structure providing quality and safety for operational working across our service at The Rosie Hospital. You will provide clinical and operational nursing and midwifery leadership, with support and direction of the senior team, across the Trust during the week, night shifts, weekends & Bank Holidays.
You will join a team of other experienced Band 7 midwives to ensure our service remains safe, kind and excellent; in the deployment of safe staffing across all our areas to maintain flow through the Unit. An understanding of staffing red flags, nursing and midwifery acuity and quality improvement methodology would be an advantage.
We are proud of our maternity service and are on an exciting maternity improvement journey. You will be supported within your role by the senior leadership team and personal and professional growth is encouraged.
Please note there are two posts available:
Permanent (23 hours)
Fixed term/Secondment (28.75hrs)
Main duties of the job
You will be supported within your role by the senior leadership team and personal and professional growth is encouraged. We are part of the Cambridge and Peterborough Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS).
Main duties of the job
• Providing Clinical and operational nursing and midwifery leadership with support and direction ,of the Manager of the Day (MOTD) across the Trust during the week, night shifts, weekends & Bank Holidays.
• Maintaining a visible professional presence where patients, carers and staff can turn for senior assistance, advice and support and upon whom they can rely to ensure that the fundamental and specialist aspects of care are met.
• Being responsible for the provision of a safe, effective and progressive nursing and midwifery service to patients
• Supporting the Midwifery Manager of the Day (MOTD)in ensuring that services meet agreed targets within the resources available
• Managing staff and being accountable for the quality of services (both clinical and non-clinical) delivered within the span of authority. This includes redeployment of staff to meet the needs of the service across the trust.
• Participating in specified projects and areas of improvement work which reflect clinical, professional and corporate aim.
Working for our organisation
Come Nurse with us…
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start
For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 4 January 2026
Interviews are due to be held on 13 January 2026
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current and relevant registration on NMC
- Degree qualification
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- ILS
- NBLS
Desirable criteria
- Relevant postgraduate qualification
- Senior Midwife Post at ward level
- Management/leadership training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Some experience of managing a ward/unit
- Success in working collaboratively across professions and services
- Experience of operational bleep
Desirable criteria
- Research experience
- Audit experience
- Demonstrable success in managing change
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clinical practice demonstrable knowledge of developments in nursing and midwifery policy and practice.
- Clinical governance and risk
- Patient flow, divert and escalation policy
- Health rostering to support safe staffing.
- Workforce planning, recruitment and retention
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge, understanding of the Maternity Transformation Programme
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to lead and motivate and empower others.
- Communication skills including: interpersonal skills, writing and presentation skills.
- Immediate life support
- Basic Newborn life support
- Computer literacy
- Ability to prioritise work, meet tight deadlines and work independently
Desirable criteria
- Liaison and negotiation skills
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tora Clark-Ward
- Job title
- Matron for Delivery Unit and Triage (Clinic 23)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07926 071525
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