Barts Health NHS Trust
Home Birth Team Leader
Home Birth Team Leader
LondonField-based
PermanentFull-Time
£55,524 - £62,652per annumFTE
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Description
Job summary
Are you ready for your next career move and to utilise your leadership skills?
Our maternity service at Whipps Cross hospital is provided by a supportive and friendly team dedicated to delivering the highest standard of care to our diverse community in East London.
A great opportunity has risen for an experienced midwife to join and support the home birth team to develop leadership skills and midwifery expertise.
You will be expected to work full time (37.5 hours/week) and collaboratively with home birth midwives across Barts Health Maternity in co-ordinating the overall caseload of the team, provide comprehensive support for the band 6 Midwives as necessary.
You will be expected to have strong yet compassionate leadership presence and be able to communicate within the MDT effectively. Be able to facilitate care for women seeking to birth outside of guidelines and to ensure patient safety is upheld.
Ensure the operational aspect of the team is fulfilled and ensure the service is delivered effectively.
Main duties of the job
To provide management and leadership to the home birth & normality team. Work collaboratively with the ADoM and Matron to maintain safe staffing for home birth services. Promote service improvement and ensure appropriate use of available resources.
As the expert lead, provide support and organisation ensuring a caseloading model of care for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies wishing to give birth at Home.
To provide all aspect of clinical midwifery care including individual plan of care in partnership with the women and the multidisciplinary team as required.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
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.
Details
Date posted: 04 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year per annum inc
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 259-8413626WXH
Closing date: 18 November 2026
Person Specification
Qualifications
Experience
Knowledge
Skills
Other
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name: Barts Health NHS Trust
Address: Whipps Cross University Hospital, London, E11 1NR, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Matron for Low Risk, Screening & Immunisation. Stella Nwogu, stella.nwogu@nhs.net
Barts Health NHS Trust's privacy notice (opens in a new tab)
Are you ready for your next career move and to utilise your leadership skills?
Our maternity service at Whipps Cross hospital is provided by a supportive and friendly team dedicated to delivering the highest standard of care to our diverse community in East London.
A great opportunity has risen for an experienced midwife to join and support the home birth team to develop leadership skills and midwifery expertise.
You will be expected to work full time (37.5 hours/week) and collaboratively with home birth midwives across Barts Health Maternity in co-ordinating the overall caseload of the team, provide comprehensive support for the band 6 Midwives as necessary.
You will be expected to have strong yet compassionate leadership presence and be able to communicate within the MDT effectively. Be able to facilitate care for women seeking to birth outside of guidelines and to ensure patient safety is upheld.
Ensure the operational aspect of the team is fulfilled and ensure the service is delivered effectively.
Main duties of the job
To provide management and leadership to the home birth & normality team. Work collaboratively with the ADoM and Matron to maintain safe staffing for home birth services. Promote service improvement and ensure appropriate use of available resources.
As the expert lead, provide support and organisation ensuring a caseloading model of care for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies wishing to give birth at Home.
To provide all aspect of clinical midwifery care including individual plan of care in partnership with the women and the multidisciplinary team as required.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
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.
Details
Date posted: 04 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year per annum inc
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 259-8413626WXH
Closing date: 18 November 2026
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Essential: Midwife with UK professional registration with experience ideally in a homebirth or birth centre environment.
- Desirable: Evidence of undertaking a Leadership Course or equivalent
- Desirable: Newborn Life Support course
Experience
- Essential: Completion of Capital Midwife preceptorship programme.
- Essential: Experience of clinical practice in variety of midwifery settings.
- Desirable: Experience at performing risk assessments and recommending appropriate pathway for care
Knowledge
- Essential: Can demonstrate a knowledge of current and emerging health care issues.
- Essential: Working knowledge of child protection legislative framework.
- Essential: Evidence of continuous professional development.
- Essential: Knowledge of governance framework and risk management processes.
- Desirable: Demonstrate ability to implement, monitor and evaluate processes.
Skills
- Essential: Ability to provide effective leadership and motivate those in the team.
- Essential: Ability to plan allocate and supervise the work of a team
- Essential: Ability to assess the work of the team, provide support and clear constructive feedback to the team in order to maintain and improve performance
- Essential: Ability to communicate effectively at all levels across the Department and Directorate
- Essential: Ability to maintain good working relationship as part of multidisciplinary team to facilitate care planning and provision.
- Essential: Ability to self-reflect, carry out tasks of own job and identify what s/he needs to learn to able to do current job better.
- Essential: Can demonstrate understanding of the distinctive role of other agencies to the benefit of mothers and babies
- Essential: Ability to support others in maintaining health, safety and security
- Essential: Able to analyse, interpret and action fetal heart rate monitoring including intermittent auscultation and CTG recordings.
- Essential: The ability to communicate with women and their families in an empathetic manner regarding all aspects of their care.
- Essential: Ability to carry out essential and appropriate midwifery care and procedures including dealing with obstetric emergencies and suturing
Other
- Essential: Ability to work flexible hours to meet service requirements including on call commitments
- Essential: Awareness of the equality, diversity and inclusion principles.
- Essential: Car driver.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name: Barts Health NHS Trust
Address: Whipps Cross University Hospital, London, E11 1NR, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Matron for Low Risk, Screening & Immunisation. Stella Nwogu, stella.nwogu@nhs.net
Barts Health NHS Trust's privacy notice (opens in a new tab)
