Midwifery Continuity Team Leader | University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

This is a great opportunity to lead a dynamic continuity team delivering truly personalised maternity care across the full pregnancy journey. As Midwifery Continuity Team Leader of the Caledonian Continuity Team you will shape a model of care where relationships matter, continuity is real, and women feel known, heard and supported from booking through to postnatal discharge.

You will lead a skilled, community-based team providing care across home, birth centre and hospital settings, balancing clinical expertise with strong leadership and coordination. This role suits someone who thrives on autonomy, values continuity of carer, and is passionate about improving outcomes and reducing inequalities through relationship-based care.

In return, you will be part of an innovative service at the forefront of maternity transformation, with the opportunity to influence practice, develop your team and make a lasting impact on the experiences of women and families.

You will provide day-to-day leadership of the Caledonian Continuity Team, ensuring safe, effective and compassionate care across antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal pathways. This includes overseeing caseload management, coordinating staffing and on-call provision, and maintaining high standards of clinical practice within a community-based model.

You will support and develop your team through supervision, mentorship and performance management, creating a positive, accountable and supportive working culture. Working closely with multidisciplinary colleagues, you will manage complexity, contribute to personalised care planning and ensure women receive consistent, informed and responsive care.

The role also involves monitoring quality and safety, responding to concerns and complaints, and using insight from feedback and incidents to drive improvement. Strong leadership, organisation and communication skills are essential, alongside the ability to work flexibly, make sound decisions and lead confidently in a fast-paced, evolving service.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites

University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

University College Hospital Grafton Way Building

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.

UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working.

To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?

This advert closes on Sunday 24 May 2026

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