Director of Midwifery
| Posting date: | 20 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 November 2025 |
| Location: | Canterbury, CT1 3NG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9344-25-1091 |
Summary
As Director of Midwifery, you will hold strategic and professional responsibility for the delivery of safe, compassionate and innovative maternity services across a large, complex provider organisation. Operating at sub-Board level, you will act as the senior professional voice for midwifery setting standards, driving improvement, and ensuring the voice of women, birthing people and families is heard and acted upon. This is a role for a visionary leader who can inspire through authenticity, compassion and credibility. You will be adept at translating national priorities into meaningful local action, building trust and collaboration across professional boundaries, and leading your teams through transformation with clarity and purpose. This post offers an opportunity to lead with vision, authority and compassion creating the conditions for outstanding maternity care and professional pride across a major health system.