Job summary
- Main area
- .
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (2 days per week based at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust and 2 days a week based at Hull University Teaching Trust)
- Job ref
- 208-668A28-25-1
- Employer
- Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cross site
- Town
- Scunthorpe/Grimsby
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Recruitment, Retention and Pastoral Lead Midwife
Band 7
Job overview
We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Recruitment, Retention, and Pastoral Lead Midwife to join our maternity team. This role is essential in supporting the recruitment and retention of midwives while ensuring their pastoral well-being. You will work collaboratively with workforce teams, senior midwifery leaders, and external partners to develop strategies that attract, support, and retain skilled midwives.
As a key advocate for staff welfare, you will lead initiatives to enhance midwife experience, provide pastoral support, and create a positive and inclusive workplace culture. Your role will include mentoring, workforce planning, and implementing policies that promote staff engagement and well-being.
Main duties of the job
For the full details of this job please see the attached job description.
You must be able to influence others through support and education for maternity staff to improve retention and recruitment.
This will include supporting early career midwives, pastoral care for maternity staff, providing support for newly appointed staff, including induction training.
The role will involve working with Regional and National Leads to support the Retention programme as retention is a key component of the People Plan and the NHS Long term plan.
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values, kindness, courage, and respect.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Degree qualification
- Evidence of level 7 study
- Midwifery assessor/supervisor
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification
Occupational experience and abilities
Essential criteria
- Band 6 experience or above
- Ability to make clinical judgments which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
- Experience of working within a MDT at operational and strategic level
- Experience of facilitating training and educational sessions
Desirable criteria
- Management experience at ward level
- Previous involvement in change management
- Previous involvement in the development, implementation and audit of clinical guidelines and standards
- Experience of service development
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Effective leadership and assertiveness skills
- Knowledge of current local and national priorities in relation to this role
- Knowledge of organisational policies and procedures
- Clear understanding of clinical governance
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the core values of the Trust
- Good understanding of the specialist role
- Comitted to high professional standards
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
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
- Yvonne McGrath
- Job title
- Director of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03033306999
- Additional information
If you would like to discuss this role or arrange to visit the areas prior to applying, please contact Yvonne McGrath.
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