Job summary
Specialist Midwife - West Midlands Regional Placenta Accreta Spectrum

This exciting new role has been created to provide strategic and clinical leadership as the Specialist Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS) Midwife for the West Midlands Perinatal Network (WMPN). The role will focus on developing, strengthening, and coordinating the regional PAS network, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary PAS teams across the four regional referral centres to ensure equitable, high-quality care delivery.

The postholder will provide expert midwifery support to women diagnosed with PAS, ensuring a consistent, evidence-based, and holistic approach throughout the care pathway.

Given the well-recognised psychological morbidity associated with PAS, including increased rates of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and long-term physical complications, dedicated specialist midwifery leadership is essential.

The postholder will have a special interest in psychological support and incorporate this into the direct care provided to patients. The candidate will also be passionate in providing continuity of care for women with complex obstetric needs and be an advocate throughout their journey.

Provisional interview date Wednesday 04th November

Main duties of the job

• The postholder will provide direct clinical care to women with a suspected diagnosis of PAS across all four designated PAS centres.
• Acting as a patient advocate and champion, the postholder will ensure that the patient voice remains central to all clinical network activities, embedding person-centred principles within the networked model of care and associated clinical pathways.
• The postholder must demonstrate strategic thinking and the ability to plan, coordinate, and deliver a complex programme of work spanning multiple providers, commissioners, and patient groups.
• They will possess the professional credibility, expertise, and interpersonal skills necessary to unite diverse stakeholders, manage differing perspectives, and, where required, act as an impartial facilitator to reconcile competing priorities.

About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centered care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Details
Date posted 21 September 2026
Pay scheme Agenda for change
Band Band 8a
Salary £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum
Contract Fixed term
Duration 18 months
Working pattern Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number 284-26-8258519-COCM
Job locations Birmingham Women's Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, B15 2TG, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Preoperative counselling and preparation.
• Postoperative psychosocial follow-up.
• Coordination of care across multiple providers and organisations
• Support for women and families experiencing trauma, anxiety, or bereavement.
• Ensuring adherence to national guidance and quality standards.
• Contributing to clinical governance, including supporting the development of regional standard operating procedures (SOPs) and patient information resources.
• Leading audit activity and supporting robust data collection.
• Supporting the establishment of a regional patient support group.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Relevant post-registration qualification
• Degree Level Qualification or equivalent experience
• Master's Degree in a healthcare related subject (or demonstrable evidence of working at Masters Level).
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Clinical Leadership or Management Qualification
• Teaching and Assessing Qualification

Knowledge & Nature Of Experience
Essential

• Working knowledge of operational midwifery leadership within fields including Complex caesarean sections or Placenta Accreta Spectrum
• Sound knowledge and experience in managing the care of maternity surgical patients or PAS
• Sound knowledge and experience managing the care of a critically ill patient requiring stabilisation or escalation of care
• Knowledge and understanding of current professional midwifery policy and practice issues
• Knowledge & experience of Safeguarding Adults & Children
• Knowledge & Understanding of Infection Control
• Proven change management skills
• Knowledge, understanding and experience in Risk Management and Governance issues.
• Knowledge & understanding of Patient/Public Involvement, management
• Knowledge of NHS Directives and policy initiatives.
• Understanding of Local and National policy drivers

Analytical & Judgement Skills
Essential

• Evidence of knowledge regarding clinical audit
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, engaging in highly complex communication situations where information is highly sensitive. Including having difficult conversations with patients, staff and regional stakeholders.
• Ability to act as a champion for patients and their interests ensuring that patients are actively engaged and their voice is at the heart of the Networks activities. Recognising that this will involve challenging situations and conversations.

Professional, Managerial, Specialist Knowledge
Essential

• Proactive, self-motivated, with the ability to motivate others.
• Ability to work independently and demonstrate autonomy/decision making
• Ability to manage own workload and clinically lead groups
• Competence with Microsoft Office software including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook

Personal Skills, Abilities and Attributes
Essential

• Able to lead policy implementation
• Completes/finishes work streams and tasks punctually
• Committed to the BWH Trust Values
• Committed to Inclusion and Diversity

Desirable

• Proven Leadership skills

Other Requirements
Essential

• Ability to travel across the West Midlands and occasionally beyond (i.e. hospital & face to face event sites)

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).

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.
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).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).