Maternity Flow Senior Midwife

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Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Bristol seeks an experienced Maternity Flow Senior Midwife to join their maternity services. This role focuses on ensuring operational safety and effective patient flow within the unit. The ideal candidate will possess significant midwifery experience, leadership skills, and the ability to manage challenges in a dynamic environment. This position offers a competitive salary and various development opportunities in a supportive team-oriented culture.

Benefits

Relocation allowance

Career development opportunities

Comprehensive wellbeing provisions

Qualifications

• Significant experience in all clinical areas as a Midwife.
• Ability to lead and manage staff effectively.
• Experience in being in charge of a shift and providing guidance.

Responsibilities

• Provides real-time situational awareness of staffing and acuity.
• Ensures efficient patient movement in maternity areas.
• Supports the centralised telephone triage service.

Skills

Effective interpersonal and communication skills

Adaptable and responsive

Leadership and managerial experience

Education

Registered Midwife with significant experience

Job description

Main area Maternity Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Shift pattern to include day and night shifts over the 7 day week)

Employer North Bristol NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Southmead Hospital Town Bristol Salary £47,810 - £54,710 per annum, pro rata for part time roles. Salary period Yearly Closing 28/12/2025 23:59

Maternity Flow Senior Midwife

NHS AfC: Band 7

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Job overview

Are you an experienced Midwife looking for a new opportunity? We have a senior leadership role in our Maternity services which is an exciting career opportunity for ambitious and dynamic Midwives.

In this role you will work closely with the Maternity Matron team, the Band 7 labour ward co-ordinators and the centralised Triage department to ensure that the Maternity unit is operationally safe, effective and well led.

You will have the clinical oversight of the Maternity Unit to improve the flow and capacity management. You will ensure compliance with the national safety recommendations. You will provide real time situational awareness and enable early escalation of risks.

You will demonstrate a high level of communication and organisational skills and be a key stakeholder for the development and management of the individuals within the team.

If you have a sound clinical knowledge base and a passion for high standards of care at all times and you enjoy working in maternity services which can be unpredictable and challenging, we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Provides real-time situational awareness of staffing levels, acuity, and bed availability across all maternity areas.
• Enables early escalation of clinical or operational risks to senior leadership or obstetric teams.
• Ensures efficient patient movement between triage, labour ward, and postnatal areas to prevent bottlenecks.
• Reduces delays in induction of labour, theatre access, and discharges.
• Enhances ability to manage surges in demand, including out-of-hours.
• Supports the centralised telephone triage service by overseeing calls and managing admissions

Working for our organisation

Our maternity department has 5200 births each year. Our involvement in world renowned research has led to the development of PROMPT. At our last CQC inspection, we were rated as ‘good’. We have a consultant led Obstetric Unit with 2 HDU rooms, 9 birthing rooms and a pool room. We have an alongside birth centre and active home birth service. We host the Regional Maternal Medicine service, including a Fetal Medicine service.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and candidates from our local communities. We offer aninduction programme and will support you with achieving your career goals. You will work a day/night shift pattern, to include being part of the on-call rota.

Midwives working here describe the kindness and care that is demonstrated to each other. Great importance is placed on civility and a team ethos of going the extra mile together. Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay

• Relocation allowance in line with the Trust policy
• Staff car parking
• Physiotherapy Direct
• Career development and training opportunities
• Award winning and comprehensive wellbeing provisions.
• Maternity coffee shop and ‘Garden room’ wellbeing space.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main responsibilities for this role are:

Enhanced safety and clinical oversight

Improved flow and capacity management

Communication and escalation

Governance and Quality improvement

Supporting the centralised telephone triage service

Please see the job description and Additional Information document for more details

Person specification

• Practicing Midwife with significant experience in all clinical areas
• Experience of leading, managing and supervising staff and able to delegate appropriately acting as a positive role model at all times.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills within difficult or challenging circumstances demonstrating assertiveness, tact, diplomacy as appropriate
• Evidence of being in charge of a shift and ability to provide relevant advice to juniors on a variety of clinical and management issues
• Evidence of post registered education in leadership
• NIPE trained or willing to undertake
• Adaptable and responsive to changing needs

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The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.

At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.

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Application numbers

Our job adverts may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Considering this, if you are interested in this role, please do apply as soon as you can.