Continuity Midwife

Job description

Job summary

This advert is specifically for Band 6 Midwives who are post preceptorship and have clinical experience.

Is making a difference what drives you most? Are you caring and fair, treating everyone individually? Is doing the right thing important to you? Are you reliable, hardworking, and committed to excellence?

If this sounds like you, and you value the responsibility and accountability of being a midwife, we'd love to hear from you.

We are seeking an enthusiastic Band 6 Continuity of Carer Midwife to join our supportive team. You will provide personalised care towomen, birthing people, and families throughout pregnancy, birth, and thepostnatal period.

You'll work flexibly and autonomously acrossantenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal settings (inpatient/community) with adefined caseload, ensuring seamless continuity for those in your care. You'llrole model best practice, support junior staff and promote high standardsacross our service.

You will join a small integrated approachable team that values personalised care, teamwork and growth. Our commitment was reflected in our recent CQC inspection, where maternity services were ratedGood.

Main duties of the job

As a dedicated midwife, your main duties will revolve around providing safe, clinically effective and individualised care to women and birthing people throughout their pregnancy journey.

This role offers the opportunity to build meaningful relationships, support positive birth experiences, and make a genuine impact on the health and wellbeing of our community. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will deliver safe, high-quality, and compassionate care.

We are committed to the national maternity agenda and also have an impressive home birth record.

You'll work flexibly across antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal settings (inpatient/community) with a defined caseload, ensuring seamless continuity for those in your care. Excellent communication, clinical confidence, and a passion for promoting choice are essential.

When working in one of our established teams, you will have time to complete visits for your caseload, and other times where you will be available to care for women in labour (hospital, birth centre and home).You and your team write your own rota, decide on annual leave and support each other in weekly team meetings. This allows you to gain transferrable skills such as time management, prioritisation and team working.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a largeacute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acuteservices to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to alarger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services fromthree sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and ourcaring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centredcare. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people towork with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin oureveryday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewiseaccreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible workingwithin our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring aDBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check(at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in SupportingInformation section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for Band 6 Midwives to view the full details for this opportunity at Worcestershire Acute Hospital NHS Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications and skills. If there are a large amount of applications, it is vital that you also aim to evidence any desirable criteria to show case your suitability for this position.

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for Band 6 Midwives to view the full details for this opportunity at Worcestershire Acute Hospital NHS Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications and skills. If there are a large amount of applications, it is vital that you also aim to evidence any desirable criteria to show case your suitability for this position.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• 1) Please demonstrate your knowledge and practical experience across a broad range of maternity services
• 2) Experience within a UK maternity setting
• 2) Experience of mentoring junior colleagues/students

Desirable

• 1) Experience in service development or clinical governance projects
• 2) Experience of working in a community or continuity of carer setting

Skills/Knowledge

Essential

• 1) Please demonstrate how, as a midwife, you ensure your practice is guided by current evidence-based practice and the importance of this.
• 2) Competent in Venepuncture & Cannulation
• 3) Competenct in IV Therapy
• 4) Competent in Perineal Suturing

Desirable

• 1) Familiarity with maternity-specific IT systems (e.g., BadgerNet).

Personal Qualities

Essential

• 1) Please provide examples of your flexibility, reliability, and adaptability.
• 2) Please demonstrate, with examples, how you have used strong organisational and time management skills to achieve results while working collaboratively with others.

Desirable

• 1) Please provide examples that demonstrate your leadership potential and ability to influence positive change in practice.

Qualifications

Essential

• 1) BSc (Hons) Midwifery or equivalent qualification
• 2) UK NMC registration as a Midwife
• 3) Completion of practice supervisor or assessor training.

Desirable

• 1) NIPE Training
• 2) Advanced training or certification in specialist areas

Motivation and Commitment to the Organisation

Essential

• 1) Please explain why you would like to work at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and what attracts you to this organisation.
• 2) Please demonstrate your passion and long term investment within continuity of care and why you would prefer this model of care

Other Job Requirements

Essential

• 1) Ability to undertake manual handling and movement tasks
• 2) Professional appearance in line with trust uniform policy
• 3) Valid UK driving license and access to a vehicle (for commuting in the community setting)
• 4) Ability to participate in the on-call rota and work flexibly (including nights and weekends to support cover of a 24/7 service)

Desirable

• 1) Willingness to undertake secondments or extended roles

Person Specification
Experience

Essential

• 1) Please demonstrate your knowledge and practical experience across a broad range of maternity services
• 2) Experience within a UK maternity setting
• 2) Experience of mentoring junior colleagues/students

Desirable

• 1) Experience in service development or clinical governance projects
• 2) Experience of working in a community or continuity of carer setting

Skills/Knowledge

Essential

• 1) Please demonstrate how, as a midwife, you ensure your practice is guided by current evidence-based practice and the importance of this.
• 2) Competent in Venepuncture & Cannulation
• 3) Competenct in IV Therapy
• 4) Competent in Perineal Suturing

Desirable

• 1) Familiarity with maternity-specific IT systems (e.g., BadgerNet).

Personal Qualities

Essential

• 1) Please provide examples of your flexibility, reliability, and adaptability.
• 2) Please demonstrate, with examples, how you have used strong organisational and time management skills to achieve results while working collaboratively with others.

Desirable

• 1) Please provide examples that demonstrate your leadership potential and ability to influence positive change in practice.

Qualifications

Essential

• 1) BSc (Hons) Midwifery or equivalent qualification
• 2) UK NMC registration as a Midwife
• 3) Completion of practice supervisor or assessor training.

Desirable

• 1) NIPE Training
• 2) Advanced training or certification in specialist areas

Motivation and Commitment to the Organisation

Essential

• 1) Please explain why you would like to work at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and what attracts you to this organisation.
• 2) Please demonstrate your passion and long term investment within continuity of care and why you would prefer this model of care

Other Job Requirements

Essential

• 1) Ability to undertake manual handling and movement tasks
• 2) Professional appearance in line with trust uniform policy
• 3) Valid UK driving license and access to a vehicle (for commuting in the community setting)
• 4) Ability to participate in the on-call rota and work flexibly (including nights and weekends to support cover of a 24/7 service)

Desirable

• 1) Willingness to undertake secondments or extended roles

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

United Kingdom

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