Job overview

As part of our commitment to developing future leaders, we are excited to offer the Deputy Head of Midwifery and Neonatal Services role — a key opportunity for experienced senior midwives who aspire to progress into high‑level leadership positions.

This role is designed to support your development towards becoming a Head of Midwifery/Nursing or Chief Neonatal Officer in the future. You will take a lead on corporate midwifery and nursing responsibilities, provide professional leadership across the service, and act up in the absence of the Head of Midwifery. This is a pivotal position for someone ready to take the next step in their leadership journey.

You will have responsibility for your own directorate while also offering oversight and guidance to a small group of Matrons across the Division. We recognise that this senior role requires an experienced leader with the confidence, knowledge, and professional maturity to support colleagues with complex issues and decision‑making.

We are looking for a visible, compassionate, and influential midwifery leader — someone who can inspire teams, uphold professional standards, and act as a role model across multiple clinical areas. If you are committed to driving high‑quality care, shaping services, and leading with integrity, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To be professionally accountable and maintain the standards of professional practice as set by the appropriate regulatory body applicable to your profession or role.

Accountable for identifying and ensuring improvements in patient safety, patient experience and effectiveness of service

In conjunction with the Clinical Director & Group/Directorate Manager, lead the implementation and delivery of the clinical service improvement plan

Provide expert advice to the Group /Directorate on all nursing matters

Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives

Manage a devolved budget for a number of clinical areas ensuring efficient and effective use of resources.

Contribute to the planning and execution of cost improvement programmes ensuring the quality of care is risk assessed and managed appropriately

Line manage matrons and nursing leads from a number of clinical areas including professional line of communication to research nurses and nurse specialists

Act as lead specialist for specified projects within the Chief Nursing Officer’s portfolio

In conjunction with the Divisional Head of Nursing lead on quality improvements to enhance the patient journey.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve.  We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.