Maternity Workforce Lead

The post holder will lead on the delivery of the maternity recruitment and retention strategy and act as an expert on recruitment and best practice to deliver on the programmes of work related to Midwifery workforce, recruitment and retention.

They will work closely with Midwifery Teams, working in partnership with Human Resource colleagues, the Divisional Directors of Nursing, Director of Midwifery, Corporate Nursing Quality, Lead Nurse for Internationally Educated Nurses & Midwives and Pastoral Care, Workforce Matron and HR. The post holder will lead on projects to develop new roles, innovative ways of working, and programmes to support the recruitment and retention of staff., The post holder will work closely with the Practice Development and Professional Midwifery Advocates team, to enhance experience of work and promote retention in the maternity workforce for preceptorship, early career and late career midwives.

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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.

We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in West Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre. Fordcombe Hospital is near Tunbridge Wells and became part of the Trust in October 2024. It focusses on planned care and has two operating theatres, 28 inpatient and day care beds, diagnostic services including X-ray, MRI, CT and endoscopy, and a number of consultation and treatment rooms.

In the 2023 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.