Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 164-7772203
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- QMC
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Midwifery Ward Manager
Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Maternity Ward Manager to join the Perinatal Service at Nottingham University Hospital's. The post is permanent at 37.5 hours per week.
The Maternity Ward Manager will be responsible for leading and operationally running the maternity ward which consists of postnatal women.
The successful candidate will work within the wider management team, also working closely with the multidisciplinary teams across maternity to provide safe, high quality care.
Main duties of the job
The Maternity Ward Manager will provide strategic and operational leadership to the maternity ward, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, woman-centred care that is consistent with best practice, organisational standards, and professional guidelines. The post holder will be responsible for managing and developing a multidisciplinary team of midwives and support staff, maintaining effective communication, and fostering a positive, collaborative working environment. They will lead on staff development, performance management, and resource planning, ensuring services are delivered efficiently and responsively to the needs of women and their families. In this role, you will have a 24-hour responsibility for the ward, be accountability for service delivery, quality assurance, and continuous improvement, working closely with senior leadership and multidisciplinary colleagues to achieve clinical and organisational objectives. As the Ward Manager you will have line management responsibilities for the team including the responsibility for supporting professional development. You will ensure all members of your team have a personal development plan and will work collaboratively and co-operatively with others to develop women centred services. You will maintain clinical competencies, ensuring practice is evidence based.
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the Job Description and Person Specification documents which can be downloaded as PDFs at the end of this page for further information.
We’ve also listed the key responsibilities for to give you a more detailed insight into the role.
Managerial
- Have 24-hour continuing responsibility for the ward and ensure that Trust Policies and Procedures are implemented.
- Exercise leadership, providing support and guidance where necessary to all healthcare professionals within the maternity team. In conjunction with the multidisciplinary team, produce and monitor standards of care for the specialty.
Leadership
- To empower staff to create an environment, which is challenging, stimulating and supportive to individuals, promoting lifelong learning in the improvement of women centred care.
- To be visible and accessible to staff, women and their families.
Clinical
- Ensure high quality, evidence – based care is offered to women and babies, in collaboration with the senior leadership team. To identify the common issues which affect the quality of care devising clear action plans to address any shortcomings ensuring agreed action is undertaken.
Governance
- Investigate accidents and other untoward occurrences concerning women, relatives, visitors or staff that arise on the ward/department, reporting and recording accurately as required, according to agreed policies. Completion and monitoring of action plans and sharing learning from incidents.
User Experience
- Be an effective leader and role model and will have a particular responsibility to ensure that women are involved in their care, are able to feedback and see improvements made as a result.
Educational
- To be responsible for creating and maintaining a learning environment. To support education and staff development through induction programmes for new staff, preceptorship and mandatory training. To monitor staff learning and development.
Knowledge and Communication
- Contribute towards maintaining an environment conducive to learning and development.
Person specification
Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife currently on the NMC register
- Midwifery Degree
- Assessing and mentoring qualification
- Evidence of CPD
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Extensive post registration experience and experience of leading a team
- Excellent clinical skills
- Excellent managerial, leadership and organisational skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Able to motivate and develop a team of staff
Desirable criteria
- Previous ward manager experience
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of handling clinical incidents and complaints
- Previous experience of change management and problem solving
- Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality issues
- Detailed knowledge of professional accountability
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of equality and diversity
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
- Joanna Hobbs
- Job title
- Inpatient Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07812277133
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