Deputy Chief Midwifery Officer | NHS England
| Posting date: | 02 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £113,557 - £129,443 per annum (inclusive of London Weighting) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 01 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE1 8UG |
| Company: | NHS England |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7313504/990-NUR-16046-E |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join the national team as Deputy Chief Midwifery Officer for England.
You will work with the Chief Midwifery Officer for England, her wider team, the Maternity and Neonatal programme team, Department of Health and Social Care and Specialised Commissioning colleagues providing strategic leadership and professional guidance across all areas of maternity care and policy. Coupled with your clinical expertise and knowledge, you’ll use your experience and skills to build excellent relationships with stakeholders across the health system to develop midwifery leadership to support a culture of safety, compassion and equity in maternity services and to realise the ambitions outlined in the Three-Year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services.
We are focussed on collaborative, multi-disciplinary and compassionate working to deliver sustainable improvements across maternity and neonatal services.
As the Deputy Chief Midwifery Officer for England, the post holder will support the Chief Midwifery Officer to provide strategic leadership and professional guidance nationally, working with key stakeholders across the health system to ensure that the NHS ambitions are realised through the commissioning and provision of safe and effective maternity services.
Key responsibilities include:
• Providing strategic professional midwifery leadership and expert guidance on the commissioning and provision of safer, and more equitable maternity services.
• Clinical leadership of the strategy and delivery of the Maternity and Neonatal Programme (MNP), and the 10 year plan for health.
• Supporting the development, growth and value of the midwifery workforce, including leadership capacity and capability across the NHS in England.
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Due to the ongoing re-structure of NHS England, secondments can only be considered at this time for this role. Please apply having considered the length of your notice period to allow for you to start this secondment as soon as possible. Full and part time hours will be considered, alongside the option of home working or any NHS England base.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
This advert closes on Wednesday 16 Jul 2025