Senior Midwifery Practitioner - Community Team Lead
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 05/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for an experienced, motivated, and compassionate midwife to join the community services team as a community team lead. The successful candidate will provide professional, clinical, and managerial leadership to midwives, maternity support workers, and students, promoting excellence in practice and supporting staff development. They will ensure women, birthing people, and families receive safe, personalised, and evidence-based care throughout their maternity journey. The role involves driving quality improvement, clinical governance, and service development across community maternity services, working closely with the maternity leadership team and multidisciplinary colleagues. Flexibility and the ability to travel between community hubs are required.
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife on relevant part of the NMC register
- Significant clinical experience
- Evidence of continual professional development
- Associate/mentorship qualification or equivalent experience
- Relevant and recent clinical experience or with the ability to demonstrate significant experience in midwifery practice and responsibility for managing a clinical team
- Have ability to network, initiate and develop sound relationships with senior colleagues within and external to the Trust
- Expert clinical skills relevant to speciality and achievement of all midwifery competencies
Desirable criteria
- Experience of writing protocols, guidelines and integrated care pathways
- High dependency course
- Team leadership role
- Evidence of audit
- Experience of leading change management programmes
- Examination of the newborn qualification
- Trust Vaules and Behaviours
- Patients First
- Always Improving
- Working Together
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
- Registered Midwife on relevant part of the NMC register
- Significant clinical experience
- Evidence of continual professional development
- Associate/mentorship qualification or equivalent experience
- Relevant and recent clinical experience or with the ability to demonstrate significant experience in midwifery practice and responsibility for managing a clinical team
- Have ability to network, initiate and develop sound relationships with senior colleagues within and external to the Trust
- Expert clinical skills relevant to speciality and achievement of all midwifery competencies
- Experience of writing protocols, guidelines and integrated care pathways
- High dependency course
- Team leadership role
- Evidence of audit
- Experience of leading change management programmes
- Examination of the newborn qualification
- Trust Vaules and Behaviours
- Patients First
- Always Improving
- Working Together
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust
Senior Midwifery Practitioner - Community Team Lead
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for detailed job description of the role.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an experienced, motivated and compassionate midwife to join our community services team as a community team lead.
This is an exciting opportunity for an inspiring leader who is passionate about promoting excellence in midwifery practice, supporting and developing staff, and driving continuous improvement within community maternity services.
You will play a key role in ensuring women, birthing people and families receive safe, personalised and evidence-based care throughout their maternity journey.
As a community team lead, you will provide professional, clinical and managerial leadership to midwives, maternity support workers and students, promoting excellence in practice and supporting staff development.
You will work closely with the maternity leadership team and multidisciplinary colleagues to drive quality improvement, clinical governance and service development across community maternity services.
This role requires flexibility, the ability to travel between community hubs and sites, and a valid drivin
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