Antenatal Ward Sister

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated midwife to join the Inpatient Maternity Team at Frimley Park Hospital as a Band 7 Antenatal Ward Sister, working 15 hours per week as part of a job-share arrangement.

In this role, you will provide visible clinical and operational leadership within the Antenatal Ward, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and compassionate care for women and their families. You will lead on all aspects of antenatal care, supporting and developing the multidisciplinary team to deliver high standards of care and an excellent patient experience.

This post offers a valuable opportunity for personal and professional development, as well as the chance to contribute to ongoing service improvement. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across both hospital and community maternity services to promote seamless care and positive outcomes for women and their families.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical, professional, and operational leadership within the Antenatal Ward, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, evidence-based, and woman-centred care.
• Act as a role model and senior clinical resource for the multidisciplinary team, supporting staff development, professional practice, and service improvement initiatives.
• Work autonomously within established policies, protocols, and guidelines, demonstrating sound clinical judgement and decision-making in accordance with the NMC Code and Midwives Rules and Standards.
• Coordinate the day-to-day management of the Antenatal Ward, promoting effective patient flow, positive patient experiences, and high standards of care.
• Support the education, supervision, and development of midwifery staff, students, and support workers, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
• Maintain and develop specialist knowledge through ongoing professional development and post-registration education, ensuring clinical practice remains current and evidence based.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues across inpatient, community, and wider multidisciplinary services to ensure seamless care pathways and excellent outcomes for women and their families.
• Participate in the senior midwife/hands-on-help on-call rota, providing leadership and clinical support to the wider maternity service as required.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Midwife
• Mentorship / SLiP course
• Evidence of CPD
• Completed preceptorship.

Desirable criteria

• Leadership / management training
• Undertaking Master study

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in an Antenatal Ward.
• Experience of MDT working
• Completed preceptorship.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of guideline development and implementation
• Experience of implementing and influencing clinical governance processes
• Experience of undertaking midwifery research and audit

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Leadership skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrates excellent written and presentation skills.
• Effective internet and IT skills.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.

We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.

We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.

Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.

Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.

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