Job summary
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

• 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

About us
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 people choose 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 the Fetal and Maternal Medicine Unit, Breech Team, and Maternity Bereavement Teams. Midwives employed within the service have the opportunity to rotate to all our units/departments providing care to both low and high risk women.
For those working with us, we have a substantial support network for staff, focusing on wellbeing and development. This includes a team of professional Midwifery Advocates, Wellbeing Champions, staff networks and a staff Maternity Psychologist.We champion diversity and strive to ensure every member of our team feels included, valued, and has the confidence to speak up and be heard.
We genuinely believe that by supporting our staff to feel happy and offering support within their work environment, we ensure the best quality of care for the women and birthing people who access our services.

Date posted 01 July 2026
Pay scheme Agenda for change
Band Band 8b
Salary £66,582 to £77,368 a year
Contract Permanent
Working pattern Full-time
Reference number 321-SW-7996151-B8b-EXT
Job locations Womens Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford, OX3 9DU, United Kingdom

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Relevant Teaching Qualification
• Educated to Masters Level
• Accredited Management and Leadership Development and Training

Desirable

• PhD or Professional Doctorate
• Evidence of Publications and Research

Experience
Essential

• Expert practitioner in all areas of midwifery
• Evidence of teaching in clinical and University setting
• Experience of developing and implementing policy
• Ability to teach complex midwifery to student and colleague groups

Desirable

• Experience of implementing strategy
• Operational management experience or clinical background in provider environment
• Experience of working with academic institutions

Skills/Aptitude/Additional
Essential

• Able to demonstrate a broad but in-depth knowledge of health policy in relation to midwifery practice
• Understanding of the complexities of the current health and social care environment
• Negotiating skills and ability to resolve conflict

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 contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Director of Midwifery Milica Redfearn
milica.redfearn@ouh.nhs.uk

Employer name Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address Womens Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford, OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)