Job summary
Homebirth Midwife

• Continuity-led care: Case-loading a small cohort of women, from referral through to handover to the health visitor.
• Flexible shift pattern: Rotating mix of long days, standard days, and night-on-call duty and weekend working.
• Awarded recognition: Uplifted NHS pay (4.5%) for on-call shifts under Agenda for Change.

Care you will provide

• Specialist midwifery care for women planning homebirths and birth centre births ("domino care")
• Support for women planning births outside of standard guidelines, collaborating closely with consultant midwives to ensure safety

Who We're Looking For

• Qualifications: At least 12 months post-registration, including recent intrapartum experience.
• Skills: Strong communicator; committed to delivering personalised, safe, and innovative care
• Characteristics: Proactive, creative, and confident working independently and within a supportive team

Why Join Us?

• Be part of an award-winning team: Our MSWs and midwives have received Royal College of Midwives national awards for excellence
• Make a difference: Provide truly individualised care that supports choice--home, or birth-centre,
• Flexibility with support: Combine autonomy with structured on-call pay uplift and supportive team environment

Ideal Candidate

• Lives within 30minutes of hospital
• Passionate about continuity of carer and personalised birth experiences
• Exposure to recent intrapartum practice, confident managing complex or out-of-guideline scenarios

Main duties of the job
Clinical Responsibilities

• Comprehensive Midwifery Care: Provide care across all stages of pregnancy, intrapartum, and postnatal periods for a caseload of women.
• Promote Birth Choices: Actively support and facilitate homebirth, DOMINO, and birth centre care options for women.
• Collaborative Care: Work closely with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure safe and high-standard care for mothers and babies.
• Skill Development: Continuously develop and maintain midwifery skills in line with best practices.
• Role Development: Contribute to the development of midwifery practice and the introduction of new roles within the service.
• Drug Administration: Safely manage and administer medications in accordance with Trust policies and statutory regulations.

Professional Responsibilities

• Adhere to NMC Standards: Uphold the NMC Code of Conduct and work within the Trust's policies and protocols.
• Effective Communication: Maintain strong relationships within the midwifery team and with other healthcare professionals.
• Continuous Professional Development: Engage in ongoing learning and attend mandatory training to maintain and enhance clinical skills.

About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

Whencompleting your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Midwife BSc or equivalent degree
• Evidence of professional progression
• NMC Midwife registration
• Mentorship

KNOWLEDGE & NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential

• Evidence of completion of band 5 preceptorship programme
• Effective internet and IT skills
• IV drug administration
• Perineal suturing
• Waterbirth
• CTG interpretation
• Able to demonstrate awareness of research related to midwifery practice
• Positive attitude to change and inspires confidence
• Demonstrates innovation
• Cannulation and suturing knowledge and skills

Desirable

• Epidural Management

ANALYTICAL AND JUDGEMENT SKILLS
Essential

• Professional decision making skills
• Confident and competent midwife practitioner

PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
Essential

• Demonstrates evidence of commitment to professional development.
• Demonstrates an awareness of role of facilitator and evidence of ability to educate others.
• Evidence of good written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrates understanding of the importance of supportive working in a team.
• Ability to understand and adhere to the equal opportunities policy
• Willing to complete all mandatory training
• Willing to work on established Nursing/Midwifery information systems, EPR or the relevant information system related to post

PERSONAL SKILLS / ABILITIES AND ATTRIBUTES
Essential

• Resource for communication with and dissemination of information from the multidisciplinary team
• Ability to work days / nights/ flexible shifts
• Rotation in all areas of the unit including the core and group practice
• Strategies to cope with stress / work pressures.
• Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the Trust
• Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role
• Team working
• Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).