Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: 1 WTE
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-8350270
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Keighley
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Named Midwife for Safeguarding (Band 8a)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2033. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
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Job overview
We are seeking an experienced, compassionate and highly credible midwifery leader to join Airedale NHS Foundation Trust as our Named Midwife for Safeguarding. This is a pivotal senior role, providing expert leadership, professional advice and assurance across maternity services and working with partners to protect women, unborn babies, children and families
Main duties of the job
As Named Midwife for Safeguarding, you will provide visible, accessible and authoritative leadership for safeguarding across acute and community maternity services. You will shape strategy, strengthen practice, lead assurance and improvement, and ensure that statutory duties, national standards and local multi-agency requirements are consistently met.
- Provide expert safeguarding advice, supervision and professional leadership to maternity teams.
- Lead the maternity safeguarding work plan, audit programme, policy development and service improvement.
- Support complex case management, reviews and legal processes, ensuring learning is translated into sustained improvement.
- Produce high-quality assurance, performance and annual reports for senior leaders, committees, commissioners and regulators.
- Build strong partnerships across health, social care, police, safeguarding partnerships and regional and national networks.
- Lead and develop the maternity safeguarding team, champions and specialist safeguarding midwife.
Working for our organisation
This is an opportunity to influence safeguarding practice across the organisation and wider system in a role with genuine strategic reach. You will work closely with the Deputy Chief Nurse, Patient Safety & Head of Safeguarding and the Director of Midwifery, alongside committed clinical teams and multi-agency partners. The post is based at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and requires travel across the district as necessary.
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
Cycle to Work
Travel Scheme
Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
Onsite Nursery
Buying and Selling Annual Leave
Car Leasing
Employee Assistance Programme
Employee Health and Wellbeing
Extensive Reward Scheme
Counselling Service
Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information and full details of the job role.
Person specification
Qualification and Training
Essential criteria
- Current NMC Registered Midwife
- Educated to postgraduate level or equivalent experience at senior level
- Evidence of strong and recent commitment to relevant ongoing professional development with a focus on safeguarding
Desirable criteria
- Masters degree in a relevant subject
- Relevant leadership or management qualification
- Safeguarding Supervisor
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Significant relevant and demonstrable experience and knowledge of safeguarding in maternity care
- Experience of a senior post with direct responsibility for strategic and operational leadership
- Demonstrates experience of managing a highly complex, broad range of activities
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential criteria
- Experience of leading and managing resources
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Sajan Sathyan
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535652511
- Additional information
Sarah Simpson, Director of Midwifery
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