The Lead Midwife for Preterm Birth is a senior clinical leadership role within the maternity service at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust . The post holder will lead and coordinate preterm birth prevention and optimisation work in line with national initiatives including Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle Version 3 (SBLCBv3), MatNeoSIP and NHS Resolution standards.
The role involves overseeing the development, implementation and monitoring of evidence-based pathways and clinical practices to improve outcomes for women and babies at risk of preterm birth. Working across multidisciplinary teams, the Lead Midwife will support service improvement, governance, audit, education and quality improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities include supporting the preterm birth clinic, monitoring compliance with national standards, leading audits and reporting, delivering staff training, and contributing to research and policy development. The post holder will also work collaboratively with obstetric, neonatal, governance and regional maternity teams to ensure safe, equitable and seamless care across the maternity pathway.
This role requires advanced midwifery knowledge, strong leadership and communication skills, and the ability to drive service development and improve patient outcomes within a complex clinical environment.
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
