Specialist Midwife for Safeguarding Children | Barts Health NHS Trust

Are you a passionate midwife dedicated to making a difference to our families with complex social needs?

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Midwife to join our complex social factors team here at The Royal London Hospital. The role involves championing the welfare of women, babies and their families when they need it most.

You need to have a passion for complex social factors and be committed to ensuring safeguarding procedures are adhered to in the clinical setting. You must also be able to lead teaching sessions, share learning, empower colleagues and consider refreshing ways to improve safeguarding training compliance across maternity.

The applicant must also be confident in their safeguarding knowledge in order to support and advise appropriately, while working in line with local and national standards.

You will provide woman focused and family centered midwifery care within a community and hospital setting. You’ll work in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary teams, enhancing and promoting the health, wellbeing and safeguarding of mothers and their babies.

The post holder is the Specialist Safeguarding Midwife based at The Royal London Hospital. The post holder will be supported by a team of midwives who provide enhanced midwifery care to vulnerable families to ensure safety and compassion during their pregnancy journey.

The Specialist Midwife for Safeguarding will support all activities necessary in maternity services to ensure that the organisation meets its responsibilities to safeguard and protect children and young people.

The Midwife will identify and co-ordinate the provision of multidisciplinary care for socially vulnerable women through support, advice and training for staff dealing with complex child protection issues. The post holder will provide high quality, effective midwifery care that is evidence based and woman centred.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

This advert closes on Sunday 7 Jun 2026