Site Safety Midwife

Care England; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Cambridge is seeking a Senior Midwife to join their site safety team. The role involves providing both clinical and operational leadership, supporting staff across various shifts. Key responsibilities include ensuring quality services, maintaining a visible support presence, and participating in improvement projects. This role is permanent with flexible hours and offers a variety of employee benefits, including discounted transport and 24/7 food availability.

Benefits

On-site leisure facilities

Subsidized bus travel

Reduced parking costs

24/7 food availability

Staff break spaces

Qualifications

• Relevant operational understanding in midwifery.
• Clinical and operational nursing leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and operational leadership.
• Maintain a visible professional presence for support.
• Ensure a safe and effective nursing service.
• Support in meeting service targets.
• Manage staff and ensure quality of services.
• Participate in improvement projects.

Job description

Overview

We are looking to appoint a Senior Midwife with relevant operational understanding to join our site safety team adding to our exciting structure providing quality and safety for operational working across our service at The Rosie Hospital. You will provide clinical and operational nursing and midwifery leadership, with support and direction of the senior team, across the Trust during the week, night shifts, weekends & Bank Holidays.

Main Duties

• Providing Clinical and operational nursing and midwifery leadership with support and direction of the Manager of the Day (MOTD) across the Trust during the week, night shifts, weekends & Bank Holidays.
• Maintaining a visible professional presence where patients, carers and staff can turn for senior assistance, advice and support and upon whom they can rely to ensure that the fundamental and specialist aspects of care are met.
• Being responsible for the provision of a safe, effective and progressive nursing and midwifery service to patients.
• Supporting the Midwifery Manager of the Day (MOTD) in ensuring that services meet agreed targets within the resources available.
• Managing staff and being accountable for the quality of services (both clinical and non-clinical) delivered within the span of authority. This includes redeployment of staff to meet the needs of the service across the trust.
• Participating in specified projects and areas of improvement work which reflect clinical, professional and corporate aim.

Benefits

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge.

Application Details

Permanent (23 hours) – Fixed term/Secondment (28.75hrs). This vacancy will close at midnight on 4 January 2026. Interviews are due to be held on 13 January 2026.