Site Safety Midwife | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Company: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting prospect for a senior midwife who is passionate about patient safety, effective operational leadership and the delivery of safe, kind and excellent care. Working closely with the Midwifery Manager of the Day, the postholder will provide visible clinical and operational leadership across maternity services, including during nights, weekends and bank holidays.

You will support the safe coordination of maternity activity, staffing and patient flow. They will provide senior advice and direction to clinical teams, respond to emerging operational pressures and ensure that concerns relating to capacity, acuity, staffing and safety are identified, escalated and managed appropriately.

You will be a calm, credible and approachable leader who can make effective decisions in complex and rapidly changing situations. You will work collaboratively with maternity teams, ward and area managers, the Trust Operations Centre and the wider multidisciplinary team to maintain safe services and support the best possible experience and outcomes for women, birthing people, babies and families.

The role also provides an opportunity to contribute to service improvement through the monitoring of maternity red flags, staffing redeployments, emergency activity and other safety information.

You need excellent communication, prioritisation and decision-making skills, together with the ability to remain professionally composed while managing competing demands.

The Site Safety Midwife will:

- Provide visible senior midwifery and operational leadership, with support and direction from the Midwifery Manager of the Day.




- Coordinate and oversee maternity staffing, activity, capacity and patient flow, responding promptly to changes in clinical demand.
- Assess maternity staffing requirements and support the safe deployment or redeployment of staff according to activity, acuity and service need.
- Recognise and ...concerns relating to staffing, capacity, safeguarding, patient flow and clinical safety.
- Work closely with ward and area managers, on-call teams, the Trust Operations Centre and other healthcare providers to maintain safe and effective services.
- Support the maternity response to emergency and major-incident arrangements.
- Provide specialist clinical and operational advice to colleagues and act as an accessible senior point of support.
- Attend relevant site-safety meetings and represent maternity and gynaecology services as required.
- Monitor and contribute to data collection relating to maternity red flags, staffing redeployment and emergency activity, using this information to support improvement.
- Promote incident reporting, support initial reviews of complaints and safety incidents, and ensure that learning and required actions are communicated appropriately.
- Act as a professional role model, promoting high standards of care, professional behaviour and cooperative working.

Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?





- Our values and reputation for outstanding care
- Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
- Career and development opportunities
- Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
- Research experience and opportunities
- Lovely location and quality of life
- Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible sta

📌 Site Safety Midwife | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Town of Cambridge)
🏢 Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
📍 Town of Cambridge