Job overview

We are pleased to advertise a Band 7 Midwifery Outpatient Team Leader role, evolving from the previous Antenatal Clinical Team Leader post to better meet the needs of women, families and the wider maternity system.

The post holder will provide visible, compassionate leadership within the antenatal outpatient service, ensuring high-quality, individualised care for women with moderate risk factors and additional considerations. A key element of this role is leading and delivering birth reflections for women and families, using a trauma-informed, compassionate and evidence-based approach to support recovery, learning and improved experience of care.

The role also has a strong service development focus, working proactively across the ICB to strengthen collaborative working and contribute to the ongoing development of outpatient maternity services. You will work closely with multidisciplinary and multi-agency partners to improve continuity, equity of access and system-wide learning.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide professional, clinical and operational leadership to the antenatal outpatient midwifery team, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and woman-centred care. They will oversee the day-to-day running of antenatal clinics, including triage and management of referrals for women with moderate risk factors, ensuring care is delivered in line with local and national guidance.

A new core responsibility of the role is to lead and deliver birth reflections for women and families, using a trauma-informed, compassionate and evidence-based approach. The post holder will support women following complex or distressing birth experiences, contribute to learning from feedback and complaints, and promote psychologically safe practice for both women and staff.

The role includes providing specialist midwifery input as part of the multidisciplinary team, developing personalised care plans, and supporting women requesting care outside of guidance. The post holder will work proactively across the Integrated Care Board (ICB) to strengthen collaborative working, improve referral pathways and contribute to the development of outpatient maternity services.

The post holder will be responsible for staff leadership, including supervision, appraisal, rota management, sickness management and professional development. They will lead on quality improvement, audit, governance and risk management, and continuous improvement across the service.

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research. 

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites: 

University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing) 

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery 

Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals 

University College Hospital Grafton Way Building 

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine 

University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre 

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases 

University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street 

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology. 

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.