Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-CR-926
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/09/2025
Employer heading
Named Midwife
Band 8a
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Following a recent retirement, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) is seeking to appoint a Named Midwife to join our dedicated maternity safeguarding team on a full-time basis. This post is currently an 8a and is being reviewed for an 8b.
At ICHT, we are proud to be at the heart of the NHS. As one of the UK’s largest acute trusts, we exemplify the excellence, ambition, and values that have defined the NHS for over 70 years.
About the Role
The maternity safeguarding team operates as part of a wider integrated safeguarding service, which includes children’s and adults’ safeguarding, domestic abuse, modern slavery, learning disability, and autism. This full-time role may involve some weekend working, as we currently provide a six-day service across our two maternity sites: St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, and Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital, Hammersmith.
The post-holder will play a pivotal role in ensuring compliance with statutory safeguarding responsibilities, including those outlined in Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018), the Health and Social Care Act (2012), and the Children Acts (1989 and 2004). The role also aligns with the Care Quality Commission’s core standards.
Interview Process
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to participate in a focus group, deliver a presentation, and attend a formal interview. These will take place on 22nd September 2025.
Main duties of the job
- Provide effective leadership on all aspects of the safeguarding children agenda, maintaining clinical and professional competence.
- Deliver expert safeguarding advice and support, particularly in complex, emotive, or sensitive cases.
- Offer strategic and operational guidance to ensure compliance with national legislation, local policies, and Trust standards.
- Promote early identification and management of safeguarding concerns through leadership, education, research, and best practice.
- Demonstrate advanced skills and legal literacy in safeguarding and family law to influence care pathways.
- Contribute to and initiate research to support evidence-based safeguarding practices.
- Provide direct line management to the maternity safeguarding team.
- Collaborate strategically with external partners and agencies.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- RM and/or relevant other experience
- Master’s Degree in relevant subject or working towards i.e. nearly finished
- Evidence of continuing CPD in safeguarding
- Teaching qualification e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent
- Evidence of safeguarding supervision qualification
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in Management/Leadership
- Safeguarding/Child Protection qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience as a Band 7 or above
- Significant Safeguarding / Child Protection experience
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of multi-agency working
- Experience of working with children and young people with complex medical/social needs
- Experience of providing safeguarding training
- Experience of delivering safeguarding supervision
- Experience of paediatric liaison
Desirable criteria
- Experience of participating in research studies
- Experience of chronology writing and involvement with Serious Incident Notifications
- Line management skills
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Demonstrate leadership ability across professional boundaries
- Proficient line manager of staff, able to manage performance, sickness and conduct effectively
- Ability to prioritise work effectively, meet deadlines and manage schedules.
- Handling clinical incidents and complaints
Desirable criteria
- Write/oversee reports including court ones; case conferences; quality assurance
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicci Wotton
- Job title
- Head of Safeguarding
- Email address
- [email protected]
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