Antenatal Clinic Lead Midwife
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 20/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting full-time opportunity for a Band 7 Antenatal Clinic Lead Midwife on a fixed-term/secondment contract until 31st July 2027. The role involves overseeing a busy consultant-led clinic, driving quality improvements, and ensuring a safe and efficient service. The post holder will need strong organisational and communication skills to work within a multidisciplinary team, providing care to women with diverse needs.
Key responsibilities
- Practices with due attention to the Midwives Rules and Standards and the Code of Professional Conduct.
- Assesses, plans and implements antenatal care to women with low and high risk pregnancies.
- Liaises with and advises members of the multi-disciplinary team on the individual needs of women in her care.
- Monitors the antenatal welfare and condition of the fetus by appropriate means.
- Co-ordinates the care of women with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure effective and appropriate communication and safe care.
- Recognises complications and deals with clinical problems in a safe and appropriate manner and can provide emergency care to mother and/or baby.
Essential criteria
- oRegistered Midwife
- oENB997 or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification.
- oDegree in Midwifery Practice
- oChild protection training level 3
- oAttendance at leadership course
- oProven post registration experiences as clinical midwife.
- oExtensive antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal clinical practice.
- oEvidence of advanced decision making skills.
- oPrevious ward management experience.
Desirable criteria
- oRegistered Nurse
- oEducation to diploma level
- oExperience of working as Band 7 midwife.
- oExperience in report writing.
- oBudget monitoring skills.
- oAntenatal and Newborn Screening experience
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £46,148 – £52,809 — matches the national scale.
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Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for full time , Band 7 Antenatal Clinic Lead Midwife on fixed term/secondment contract until 31st July 2027.
The clinic is a busy area providing consultant led care to a diverse population. The post holder will need to have good organisational skills and be able to communicate well within a multidisciplinary team whichincludes, inpatient and outpatient midwifery teams, obstetric, screening, specialist and operational teams.The clinic has maternal medicine, fetal medicine, diabetic, preterm prevention and perinatal mental health specialist clinics and an Antenatal Day Unit that is open 7 days a week. As the Lead Midwife you will be overseeing the running of the clinic and driving Quality Improvements to improve the experiences of service users and staff and to ensure a safe and efficient service.
Main duties of the job
- Practices with due attention to the Midwives Rules and Standards and the Code of Professional Conduct
- Assesses, plans and implements antenatal care to women with low and high risk pregnancies, having regard to the needs and wishes of the woman and her family.
- Liaises with and advises members of the multi-disciplinary team on the individual needs of women in her care.
- Monitors the antenatal welfare and condition of the fetus by appropriate means.
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