Consultant Midwife | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Midwife – Intrapartum, Complex Care & Clinical Quality

Band 8b | 37.5 hours per week

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is seeking an exceptional Consultant Midwife to provide expert leadership for intrapartum care, complex births and clinical quality improvement across maternity services.

This is a senior clinical leadership role for an autonomous expert practitioner with a strong focus on safety, complex decision‑making and reducing unwarranted variation, ensuring high‑quality, compassionate care for women, babies and families.

Main duties of the role

Working closely with the Director of Midwifery and the Midwifery Leadership Team, the postholder will

• Provide senior clinical leadership for intrapartum safety and complex births
• Lead development and oversight of complex care pathways
• Drive clinical quality improvement and perinatal surveillance
• Support learning from incidents, reviews and complaints, embedding improvement
• Strengthen multidisciplinary working and intrapartum education, training and simulation

The role combines a minimum of 50% expert clinical practice with professional leadership, consultancy, education and research through the four pillars of advanced practice.

• Provide senior clinical leadership for intrapartum safety and complex births
• Lead development and oversight of complex care pathways
• Drive clinical quality improvement and perinatal surveillance
• Support learning from incidents, reviews and complaints, embedding improvement
• Strengthen multidisciplinary working and intrapartum education, training and simulation

The role combines a minimum of 50% expert clinical practice with professional leadership, consultancy, education and research through the four pillars of advanced practice.

Person specification

You will be

• A Registered Midwife
• Educated to Master’s level or equivalent
• An expert in intrapartum care and complexity
• An experienced senior clinical leader with credibility across multidisciplinary teams
• Committed to improving safety, quality, equity and experience in maternity care

Here in Oxfordshire, we offer a unique set up of our Maternity Services with around 7500 babies born annually.

We have 4 stand-alone Midwifery-Led Birth units within the county. These are based at Banbury, Chipping Norton, Wantage and Wallingford and we also offer home births to all areas. There is also an integrated Midwifery-Led birth unit, where around 10%of women and birthing peoplechoose to go in labour. As a tertiary hospital, the John Radcliffe is composed of a Delivery Suite with 3 Maternity Theatres and a specific Maternity Recovery Ward. We work closely with specialist services such as theFetaland Maternal Medicine Unit, Breech Team, and Maternity Bereavement Teams.Midwives employed within the servicehave the opportunity torotate to all our units/departments providing care to both low andhigh riskwomen.

For those working with us, we have a substantial support network for staff, focusing on wellbeingand development.This includes a team of professional Midwifery Advocates, Wellbeing Champions, staff networksand a staff Maternity Psychologist. We champion diversity andstrive to ensure every member of our team feelsincluded,valued, and has the confidence to speak up and be heard.

Wegenuinelybelieve thatbysupporting our staff to feel happyand offeringsupport within their work environment, we ensure the best quality of care for thewomen and birthing peoplewho access our services.

Main duties of the role

Working closely with the Director of Midwifery and the Midwifery Leadership Team, the postholder will

• Provide senior clinical leadership for intrapartum safety and complex births
• Lead development and oversight of complex care pathways
• Drive clinical quality improvement and perinatal surveillance
• Support learning from incidents, reviews and complaints, embedding improvement
• Strengthen multidisciplinary working and intrapartum education, training and simulation

The role combines a minimum of 50% expert clinical practice with professional leadership, consultancy, education and research through the four pillars of advanced practice.

Please see the attached job description and personal specification for more information.

This advert closes on Tuesday 2 Jun 2026

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