Director of Midwifery, Band 9
| Posting date: | 14 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £109,179.00 to £125,637.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £109179.00 - £125637.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 December 2025 |
| Location: | Gloucestershire, GL1 3NN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9318-25-0917 |
Summary
The Director of Midwifery is a highly autonomous role and will be responsible and accountable for the provision of midwifery services across the Trust, they will provide expert support to the Trust and lead and advocate for safe, effective, sustainable and responsive maternity and neonatal care for all women, babies, birthing people and their families. The post holder is required to advise on leading and informing complex transformation and improvement, through collaboration and mature partnership working. Accountable to the Chief Nurse, the Director of Midwifery is responsible for improving the strategic leadership of the midwifery workforce and the overarching safety and quality of the services alongside the Divisional Leadership Team. The principal goal of the post is to drive forward the maternity improvement and safety activities across the service which then demonstrates improved clinical outcomes. The post holder will work closely with the Local Maternity and Neonatal Network (LMNS) / Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (ICB) and with the clinical and professional Director of Midwifery Networks. Key drivers for change are our well established improvement plans, actions from our CQC inspection and the overall delivery of our divisional vision excellence in care as measured by our outcomes, patient experience and our staff values. Responsible and accountable for the improvement of reporting frameworks for the maternity service and neonatal service. This will involve developing key quality indicators and measures and ensuring statutory and regulatory aspects of risk, safeguarding, complaints, safety, feedback and clinical governance are delivered across all of the maternity services. The post holder will have accountability and responsibility for the strategic and operational development of the departmental plans and the programme of work will be underpinned by the delivery of short, medium and long term objectives. Interview Date: 16th December 2025 Contact Details Sharon Elliott (Executive Assistant to the Chief Nurse) sharon.elliott10@nhs.net 07977 787173 Please arrange an informal conversation with Matt Holdaway, Chief Nurse by contacting Sharon Elliott, Executive Assistant