Job summary
Closing Date: 19.07.26

The Antenatal Day Unit provides planned appointments for pregnant women and birthing people with high-risk pregnancies who require additional monitoring, assessment, and specialist care throughout their pregnancy. This vacancy is required to provide strong clinical and operational leadership within the unit, ensuring the safe and effective delivery of care and the smooth day-to-day running of the service. We require an experienced midwife with specialist antenatal knowledge and expertise who can provide clinical oversight, support complex decision-making, and act as a role model for best practice. The Lead Midwife will play a key role in supporting, supervising, and educating rotational and newly appointed midwives, helping to develop a skilled and competent workforce. This role is essential to maintaining high standards of clinical care, promoting patient safety, supporting staff development, and ensuring the delivery of effective, evidence-based care for women and birthing people with complex pregnancy needs.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for supporting the safe and effective operational and clinical management of the Antenatal Day Unit (ANDU) in the absence of the Ward Manager and Deputy Ward Manager.
• Demonstrates flexibility to ensure the provision of a safe, responsive service and promotes a positive, inclusive culture for women, families, and colleagues.
• Works collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care and positive patient outcomes.
• Utilises specialist antenatal expertise to support, teach, and mentor rotational, newly qualified, and newly appointed midwives, ensuring the delivery of safe and effective care.
• Takes ownership of clinical audits, governance activities, and quality improvement initiatives to enhance service quality and patient safety.
• Supports incident review processes, identifying learning opportunities and implementing improvements to practice.
• Actively promotes staff wellbeing and professional development, fostering a supportive environment that encourages continuous learning, teamwork, and excellence in maternity care.

About us
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:

We value people
We are one team
We care

We're keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.

Details
Date posted: 03 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year pro rata per annum
Contract: Secondment
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: 389-26-8108796
Job locations: Bradford Royal Infirmary, Smith Lane, Bradford, BD9 6RJ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting the safe and effective running of the Antenatal Day Unit and able to support the Maternity Assessment Centre when required.
• Demonstrates flexibility to ensure continuity of service and safe staffing.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of a new electronic diary.
• Provides expert antenatal care and acts as a clinical resource for colleagues, promoting evidence-based practice and high standards of care.
• Supports the induction, education, and ongoing development of rotational, newly qualified, and new-to-area midwives, ensuring staff are competent and confident in delivering safe and effective care.
• Works collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to provide coordinated, woman-centred care and achieve positive outcomes for women and families.
• Promotes a positive, inclusive, and supportive culture for both service users and colleagues.
• Takes ownership of clinical audits, governance activities, and quality improvement projects to enhance patient safety and service effectiveness.
• Supports incident management, investigation, and learning, identifying opportunities for service improvement and embedding lessons learned into practice.
• Advocates for staff wellbeing and professional development, creating an environment where colleagues feel valued, supported, and empowered to deliver excellent care.

Person Specification
Experience

• Significant experience as a band 6 registered midwife
• Sign Off Mentor

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written command of English
• Supervision of non-registered staff and students
• Ability to manage staffing and skill mix efficiently and effectively
• Demonstrate ability to prioritise own workload and recognise, prioritise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations including non-clinical situations
• IV Skills
• Able to contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of local objectives and action plans

Knowledge

• Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
• Evidence of a research and evidence based approach to practice
• Able to Mentor and assess midwifery, medical and nursing students.
• Participation and contribution in the maternity service regarding the continuity of care and Better Births agenda
• Able to use and apply IT to complete work based projects, responses and information to support the ward/service.

Qualifications

• Teaching and Assessing Qualification
• Sign Off Mentor

Desirable

• Involved in research or audit work to support the service
• Leadership training

Other requirements

• Positive attitude and self-motivated
• Ability to effectively demonstrate the qualities of the 6 C's
• Innovative and dynamic
• Able to work effectively under pressure
• Analytical approach to problem solving and clinical decision making
• Good understanding and experience of using Microsoft teams/excel/power point/word

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.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Bradford Royal Infirmary, Smith Lane, Bradford, BD9 6RJ, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.bradfordhospitals.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact: Unit Manager- MAC/ANDU, Easher Quinlan, easher.quinlan@bthft.nhs.uk, 01274364508