Job summary
This vacancy is currently only open to Internal applicants from Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

We are seeking a motivated, enthusiastic, and experienced midwife with specialist knowledge in safeguarding to join our team as a Specialist Midwife for Vulnerable Women and Safeguarding. This is a fixed term position for 6 months working 22.5 hours per week.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in strengthening safeguarding practice and supporting birthing individuals and their families across Bromsgrove and Droitwich. You will be working closely with the Avoncroft Community Midwives Team, the Named Midwife for Safeguarding, Named Doctor, Integrated Safeguarding Team, locality specialist midwives, and wider safeguarding partners.

Your work will be central to ensuring a safe, responsive, and robust safeguarding service, with a focus on protecting those most at risk of abuse and serious harm.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be a registered midwife with significant clinical experience
• Have extensive knowledge of safeguarding legislation, policies, and best practice
• Demonstrate experience working with vulnerable families and complex social situations
• Be confident engaging in multi-agency working and partnership collaboration
• Possess strong communication, leadership, and organisational skills
• Be passionate about improving outcomes for women, babies, and families

Main duties of the job
As a Specialist Midwife, you will:

• Act as a visible and accessible safeguarding expert, supporting staff and promoting best practice across the organisation
• Provide specialist advice and guidance to midwifery and multidisciplinary teams on safeguarding concerns
• Embed the principles of Think Family and Safeguarding is Everyone's Business across all areas of practice
• Work collaboratively with internal and external partners to ensure a coordinated, multi-agency safeguarding response
• Deliver safeguarding supervision in line with Trust Policy and Procedure, supporting staff in managing complex and high-risk cases
• Promote a culture of continuous learning, professional curiosity, and reflective practice

About us
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

• Being open and honest
• Ensuring people feel cared for
• Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs
Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary.

Details
Closing date: 02 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 6 months
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: C9365-26-0828
Location: Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5 1DD

Contact
Named Midwife for Safeguarding: Kate Birch, katebirch@nhs.net, 07553367291

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.