Director of Midwifery and Perinatal Care
We are seeking an exceptional and influential midwifery leader to join Norfolk and Waveney University Hospitals Group as Director of Midwifery and Perinatal Care. This is a significant opportunity to shape the future of maternity and perinatal services across the Group, providing strategic and professional leadership to improve quality, safety, outcomes and experiences for women, babies and families.
Reporting managerially and professionally to the Group Chief Nurse, you will lead the maternity transformation agenda across three trusts, working closely with hospital leadership teams, Group Board, the Integrated Care System, regional networks, regulators and education partners. You will provide expert advice and assurance, translate national policy into local delivery and ensure maternity and perinatal services are safe, sustainable, personalised and equitable.
You will be a registered midwife with current NMC registration, educated to master’s level or able to demonstrate equivalent academic achievement. You will bring Director or Head of Midwifery experience, substantial senior clinical leadership expertise and a strong record of leading maternity governance, quality, safety and complex cross-organisational change.
You will be politically astute and an outstanding communicator and relationship-builder. You will be able to influence and negotiate in complex or sensitive environments, exercise sound judgement and provide visible leadership through ambiguity and change.
This role offers the opportunity to influence maternity and perinatal care at scale, working with senior clinical and system leaders to deliver meaningful and lasting improvement. You will help create a shared vision for services across Norfolk and Waveney and ensure that quality, safety and the experiences of women and families remain central to every decision.
If you are an ambitious and values-led midwifery leader who can inspire confidence, build partnerships and turn strategy into measurable improvement, we would welcome your application.
The newly formed Norfolk & Waveney University Hospitals Group (NWUHG) is placing people and culture at the heart of its transformation.
By working as one system, the Group is strengthening workforce development, improving staff experience, and creating consistent, supportive leadership across all three hospitals. This unified approach enables better training, enhanced well-being support, and a stronger culture rooted in compassion, flexibility, and continuous learning.
Focusing on people also supports national priorities—ensuring the workforce is skilled, adaptable, and ready for future models of care—and strengthens NWUHG’s overall performance by improving quality, resilience, and sustainability.
Together, this creates a Groupwide commitment to making NWUHG a great place to work, with clear benefits for staff including:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room at NNUH Colney Lane site
- Discounted gym memberships
- Generous pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH Colney Lane site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
- For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Keeley Gripton Job title: Business Manager Email address: keeley.gripton@nnuh.nhs.uk
