Midwifery Continuity Team Leader - London, United Kingdom - University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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UCLH Maternity are looking for a new team leader for our hybrid Midwifery continuity teams. Based in Camden and Islington, you can expect to lead a team of no more than 7 midwives.


Our Midwives work on a shift basis either at their community clinic, visits at home or working on the birth centre.

They have approximately 2-3 on calls a month for homebirth cover. We are looking for an experienced and passionate Midwife to provide expert clinical leadership as well as team management.

You must be able to demonstrate a proven track record of quality improvement and a commitment to delivering high quality care.

You will be well supported by your fellow team leaders, the Matron for outpatients and a Consultant Midwife.


UCLH boasts excellent training facilities, one week's mandatory training a year, extensive staff welfare services including a maternity staff psychologist and a regular programme of free massages and complimentary therapies for staff.

We are based near the lively west end of London and are central for travel, with Euston and King's cross close by.


University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population.

We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas.

Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

  • University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
  • National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
  • Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
  • University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
  • Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
  • University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
  • The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
  • University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.


At UCLH, we have a real 'One Team' ethos, and our values - safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work.

This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.


We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH.

We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

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