Band 7 Triage Lead Midwife

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated midwife to join our maternity leadership team as a Triage Lead Midwife.

In this key clinical leadership role, you will support the delivery of a safe, timely, and effective maternity triage service. You will provide visible leadership, helping to strengthen governance, embed BSOTS, improve patient flow, and maintain high standards of care.

Working with the multidisciplinary team, you will lead on audit and quality improvement, review triage activity, and use learning from incidents and feedback to drive service improvements and enhance outcomes for women, birthing people, and babies.

We are seeking a confident clinical leader who is passionate about maternity safety, staff development, and continuous improvement, and who is committed to creating a positive and well-led triage environment., The Triage Lead Midwife will provide visible clinical leadership and expert support within maternity triage, promoting safe, timely and effective care for women, birthing people and babies.

The post holder will lead on the embedding and ongoing monitoring ofBSOTS, ensuring triage processes are consistent, evidence-based and responsive to clinical acuity. They will support staff to use structured assessment, prioritisation, documentation, safety-netting and escalation processes effectively.

The role will include oversight of triage audit, quality improvement and governance activity, including monitoring waiting times, acuity, escalation, incidents, complaints, patient feedback and compliance with local pathways. The post holder will identify themes, share learning and support improvement plans to strengthen patient safety and experience.

They will provide clinical support, teaching, supervision and role modelling for midwives and support staff working in triage, helping to build confidence, competence and consistency across the service.

The post holder will contribute to guideline development, staff training, governance reporting and service improvement, ensuring maternity triage remains safe, responsive, well-led and aligned with national and local maternity safety priorities.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.