Consultant Midwife – Intrapartum, Complex Care & Clinical Quality
Band 8b | 37.5 hours per week
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is seeking an exceptional Consultant Midwife to provide expert leadership for intrapartum care, complex births and clinical quality improvement across maternity services.
This is a senior clinical leadership role for an autonomous expert practitioner with a strong focus on safety, complex decision‑making and reducing unwarranted variation, ensuring high‑quality, compassionate care for women, babies and families.
Main duties of the role
Working closely with the Director of Midwifery and the Midwifery Leadership Team, the postholder will:
Provide senior clinical leadership for intrapartum safety and complex births
Lead development and oversight of complex care pathways
Drive clinical quality improvement and perinatal surveillance
Support learning from incidents, reviews and complaints, embedding improvement
Strengthen multidisciplinary working and intrapartum education, training and simulation
The role combines a minimum of 50% expert clinical practice with professional leadership, consultancy, education and research through the four pillars of advanced practice.
Provide senior clinical leadership for intrapartum safety and complex births
Lead development and oversight of complex care pathways
Drive clinical quality improvement and perinatal surveillance
Support learning from incidents, reviews and complaints, embedding improvement
Strengthen multidisciplinary working and intrapartum education, training and simulation
The role combines a minimum of 50% expert clinical practice with professional leadership, consultancy, education and research through the four pillars of advanced practice.
Person specification
You will be:
A Registered Midwife
Educated to Master’s level or equivalent
An expert in intrapartum care and complexity
An experienced senior clinical leader with credibility across multidisciplinary teams
Committed to improving safety, quality, equity and experience in maternity care
Here in Oxfordshire, we offer a unique set up of our Maternity Services with around 7500 babies born annually.
We have 4 stand-alone Midwifery-Led Birth units within the county. These are based at Banbury, Chipping Norton, Wantage and Wallingford and we also offer home births to all areas. There is also an integrated Midwifery-Led birth unit, where around 10% of women and birthing people choose to go in labour. As a tertiary hospital, the John Radcliffe is composed of a Delivery Suite with 3 Maternity Theatres and a specific Maternity Recovery Ward. We work closely with specialist services such as the Fetal and Maternal Medicine Unit, Breech Team, and Maternity Bereavement Teams. Midwives employed within the service have the opportunity to rotate to all our units/departments providing care to both low and high risk women.
For those working with us, we have a substantial support network for staff, focusing on wellbeing and development. This includes a team of professional Midwifery Advocates, Wellbeing Champion s, staff networks and a staff Maternity Psychologist. We champion diversity and strive to ensure every member of our team feels included, valued, and has the confidence to speak up and be heard.
We genuinely believe that by supporting our staff to feel happy and offering support within their work environment, we ensure the best quality of care for the women and birthing people who access our services .
Main duties of the role
Working closely with the Director of Midwifery and the Midwifery Leadership Team, the postholder will:
Provide senior clinical leadership for intrapartum safety and complex births
Lead development and oversight of complex care pathways
Drive clinical quality improvement and perinatal surveillance
Support learning from incidents, reviews and complaints, embedding improvement
Strengthen multidisciplinary working and intrapartum education, training and simulation
The role combines a minimum of 50% expert clinical practice with professional leadership, consultancy, education and research through the four pillars of advanced practice.
Please see the attached job description and personal specification for more information.
