Head of Midwifery – Perinatal Quality, Safety & Assurance

A Vacancy at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Head of Midwifery – Perinatal Quality, Safety & Assurance

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional senior midwifery leader to join our maternity leadership team.

This key role provides strategic and operational leadership for quality, safety, governance, risk and assurance across maternity services. Working closely with the Director of Midwifery, Deputy Chief Nurse, multidisciplinary teams and service users, you will lead continuous improvement and ensure the delivery of safe, personalised and equitable care for women, babies and families.

You will oversee maternity governance and assurance processes, promote learning from incidents and investigations, and drive the delivery of national and local maternity safety priorities. A central part of the role is ensuring that the voices of women, families and staff shape service improvement and that learning results in meaningful, sustainable change.

We are looking for a compassionate, credible and visible leader with significant senior midwifery experience, a strong track record in quality improvement and patient safety, excellent communication and influencing skills, and a passion for improving outcomes and experiences for women, babies and families.

You will

• Provide leadership for maternity quality, safety and governance.
• Lead maternity assurance, risk management and compliance programmes.
• Drive quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.
• Support learning from incidents, complaints, reviews and investigations.
• Lead assurance reporting to Trust committees and senior leadership teams.
• Work in partnership with women, families and the Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP).
• Support implementation of national maternity strategies, standards and recommendations.

You will have

• Current registration as a Midwife with the NMC.
• Significant experience in a senior midwifery leadership role.
• Expertise in clinical governance, quality improvement and patient safety.
• Experience of leading organisational change and service improvement.
• Strong analytical, communication and leadership skills.
• A commitment to compassionate leadership and staff development.

Come Nurse with us…

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values ofTogether – Safe, Kind, Excellentsupport the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.

Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?

• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)

Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:

• applied for a Graduate visa
• or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 05 Aug 2026

Interviews are due to be held on 26 Aug 2026

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Aug 2026