Midwifery Team Leader

Overview

Midwifery Team Leader

An enthusiastic and experienced midwife is required to join our community midwifery team as a team leader for maternity cover. We care for a diverse population with personalised care for women/birthing people and families. We are at the forefront of innovation, including partners staying overnight, enhanced recovery, and midwifery-led induction of labour and normalising birth. We work closely with Health Visitors as part of our integrated service.

Our service receives positive compliments from users and operates a Birth Centre with four pools and a Labour Ward with two birthing pools and telemetry.

Midwives work a varied range of shifts in all areas of midwifery, including days, nights, weekends and on-call to support home births.

The successful applicant will lead a team of midwives, providing both continuity of carer and traditional community midwifery services in Haringey and Islington, based at Whittington Hospital. The post holder will be responsible for delivering high quality antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care for women and their families, while helping the team meet the national ambitions for continuity of care and key performance indicators such as antenatal and newborn screening targets and booking in for maternity care by 9+3 weeks gestation.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and aims to ensure fair and accessible services to all. We strive to recruit a workforce representative of this population and value differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion/belief. We are committed to employment policies that reflect these differences.

• Date posted: 27 January 2026
• Pay scheme:
  Agenda for change
• Band:
  Band 7
• Salary: £56,276 to £63,176 a year Per annum including HCAS
• Contract:
  
  Secondment
• Working pattern:
  Full-time
• Reference number: 220-WHT-3665
• Job locations:
  Whittington Hospital, Magdala Avenue, London, N19 5NF

Job responsibilities:

Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details. The current vacancy is as team leader for a team of midwives, providing continuity of carer models of care as well as traditional antenatal/postnatal models of care.

Essential

• Education/qualifications: currently a registered midwife (registered to practice)
• Minimum of 3 years post preceptorship experience
• Mentorship qualification

Knowledge & Experience

• Evidence of continuous personal and professional development
• Champion for midwifery-led care
• Good knowledge of changing trends in relation to midwifery and midwifery care provision

Skills & Abilities

• Experience and evidence of leadership, delegating work appropriately
• Evidence and experience in setting and monitoring standards of care
• Evidence of clinical skills such as cannulation and perineal suturing
• Ability to practice as an autonomous midwife in acute and primary care settings
• Ability to prioritise workload effectively

Personal Qualities

• Excellent communication skills
• Effective interpersonal skills in difficult or challenging circumstances
• Sensitive approach to the needs of women and their families
• Understanding of team dynamics
• Professional maturity and problem solving skills
• Reliability and good time management and punctuality

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure to be submitted to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applications from job seekers who require Skilled Worker sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications. See UK Visas and Immigration guidance for further information.

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

• Employer name:
  Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
• Address:
  Whittington Hospital, Magdala Avenue, London, N19 5NF
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