We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join one of the UK’s largest Foundation Trusts, internationally recognised for its innovation and excellence in healthcare.
If you are passionate about leading high-quality labour ward care and are ready to take the next step in your career, UCLH Maternity Services is the place for you. As a Labour Ward (LW) Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the delivery of safe, responsive, and compassionate intrapartum care within a nationally recognised centre for excellence. You will be part of a motivated, forward-thinking multidisciplinary team, where your leadership will directly influence service development, staff wellbeing, and patient experience.
We are looking for a skilled and experienced midwife to join our dynamic service as a Labour Ward Manager. This is an outstanding opportunity for an inspiring clinical leader with a passion for intrapartum care, service improvement, and workforce development to make a meaningful impact in a supportive and innovative setting.
Key Attributes and Skills
- Enthusiastic, resilient, and highly motivated leader.
- Strong leadership, decision-making, and organisational skills in a fast-paced environment.
- Expert knowledge and proven competence in intrapartum care and maternity safety standards.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build, inspire, and sustain positive multidisciplinary relationships.
If you are ready to embrace this opportunity and lead excellence in labour ward care, we would love to hear from you.
As Labour Ward Manager, you will:
- Lead and coordinate the day-to-day operational running of the labour ward, ensuring safe, effective, and responsive care in a fast-paced environment, with clear oversight of patient flow, acuity, and staffing.
- Provide expert clinical leadership and act as a visible role model, supporting and guiding the multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, evidence-based, woman-centred intrapartum care.
- Ensure safe staffing and effective workforce management, including forward planning of rosters, real-time deployment, and optimising resources to maintain safety and quality at all times.
- Foster a positive, inclusive and psychologically safe working environment, where staff feel supported, valued, and empowered to raise concerns, contribute ideas, and develop professionally.
- Work collaboratively with obstetric, anaesthetic, neonatal and wider multidisciplinary teams, strengthening communication and teamwork to support coordinated, seamless care for women and families.
- Champion safety, governance and quality improvement, taking an active role in audits, incident review, risk management, and implementation of national and local maternity safety initiatives.
- Lead on staff development and education, including supervision, appraisal, and mentorship, ensuring a strong learning culture and supporting revalidation and continuous professional growth.
- Drive service improvement and innovation, contributing to ongoing development of labour ward services, enhancing patient experience, and ensuring care aligns with best practice and national standards.
- Promote compassionate, personalised care, ensuring women and families remain at the centre of all decision-making and that their voices are heard and valued in shaping services.
This role is ideal for a confident, experienced midwife with strong leadership capability, excellent situational awareness, and the ability to make sound decisions under pressure, who is passionate about delivering safe, high-quality intrapartum care and supporting teams to thrive.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
- University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
- University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
- Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
- University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
- The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
- University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
- UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.
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