Deputy Chief Midwife
The Nursing Directorate leads the delivery of safe high\-quality care across the Midlands by implementing national quality and experience strategies and overseeing statutory functions. A primary function of the directorate is system and provider quality oversight, safety monitoring, and analytical insight, ensuring delivery of national priorities, the 10\-year plan and the CNO professional strategy. Working with colleagues across NHSE, Clusters, ICBs, providers, and partners, the team drives quality improvement, supports high‑risk areas, and shares learning from national reports and investigations. It also offers clinical and professional leadership for nursing and midwifery, strengthening workforce development and promoting strong, compassionate leadership across the Midlands health and care system.
The post holder will also work with the regional Chief Nurse, the regional Executive Team, the Director of Intensive Support and the local health economy (including Clinical Commissioning Groups, Strategic Transformation Partnerships/Integrated Care Systems, Specialised Commissioning, Quality Surveillance groups, the Care Quality Commission, LMNS’ and regional NICE leads).
As the Deputy regional Chief Midwife, the post holder will support the Regional Chief Midwife to provide strategic leadership and professional guidance regionally, working with key stakeholders across the health system to ensure that the NHS ambitions are realised through the effective commissioning and provision of safe and personalised maternity services.
There are five key responsibilities:
1\) Lead the implementation of national maternity review recommendations, including the national strategies to improve care and safety of maternity services across the region. This would include immediate and essential actions and be underpinned by recognised QI methodology and associated resources and undertaking the role of regional maternity safety champion
2\) Provide strategic professional midwifery leadership and guidance on the effective commissioning and provision of safer and personalised maternity services
3\) Support the strategy and delivery of the Maternity Transformation Programme, including the maternity commitments of the NHS 10\-year Plan.
4\) Support the development, growth and value of the midwifery and support staff workforce, including leadership capacity and capability across the region.
5\) To deputise for the regional chief midwife across all workstreams at regional and national level
Please refer to the job description for further information.
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high\-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
For further details / informal visits contact: Gaynor Armstrong: gaynor.armstrong1@nhs.net
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