Job summary
Shape the future of maternity care at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.

As we prepare to launch our brand-new Maternity Triage unit this summer, we're expanding our team. If you're a dynamic, forward-thinking experienced Band 6 Midwife join our team during this time of growth and innovation.

With a fabulous co-located Midwifery Led Unit at St Michael's Hospital alongside another at Weston Hospital, you'll experience the benefits of a busy city centre specialist unit as well as the exceptional care we provide for low-risk birthing people at our Weston site. Community Midwifery Teams provide dedicated support for those choosing to have a home birth.

You will rotate through a variety of clinical settings:

• Antenatal/Postnatal Ward
• Central Delivery Suite
• Midwifery Led Units
• Community and Continuity of Carer Teams
• Transitional Care Unit
• Maternity Triage Unit

You'll have the opportunity to work within our Antenatal Clinic, Day Assessment Unit and Fetal Medicine Unit. As the major tertiary Fetal Medicine Unit for the Southwest, we provide highly specialist care for birthing parents and their babies.

Our commitment to your professional development includes a comprehensive orientation programme, supernumerary support and dedicated practice development guidance to help you thrive in your role and beyond.

This position requires post-registration experience and is therefore not suitable for newly pinned Midwives who have not yet completed their preceptorship year.

Main duties of the job

• Be able to demonstrate leadership and management skills
• Be flexible with a caring attitude, rotating throughout the maternity departments and to be a part of the on-call service we provide.
• Have excellent and extended clinical skills
• Be able to develop clinical skills and participate in continuing their professional development.
• Have experience in solving problems and using initiative.
• Have the ability to take the lead when caring for women and their babies, identifying any deterioration from normal and escalating appropriately.
• Be able to communicate and work together in a multidisciplinary team.

As a unit we are proud to acknowledge the importance of personal development, and the support and guidance required in enabling self-confidence and belief to strive towards the next goal. We focus on providing the opportunity to gain appropriate experience to enable progression to band 7. We offer band 7 secondment posts within the unit, where you will feel supported and guided by familiar colleagues that you would have built a rapport with through your band 6 experience.

About us
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Details
Date posted: 06 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year pa pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: 387-W&C8441-JN-2
Job locations: St Michael's Hospital, Southwell Street, Bristol, BS2 8EG, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential

• Consolidation of practice as a Band 6 Midwife

Desirable

• Extended clinical midwifery skills

Education and Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Midwife with NMC pin
• Assessors & mentors qualification

Desirable

• Assessing in Practice Level 2 or Teaching and Assessing in Practice Level 3 or equiv.

Personal Aptitudes
Essential

• Motivation and enthusiasm
• Innovative
• Flexible approach to duties/shifts

Skills and Abilities
Essential

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Evidence of teaching skills
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to prioritise care/client needs within research based approach

Desirable

• Ability to support and act up for Band 7
• Mobile, with the ability to travel within and around Bristol (essential whilst working in Community)

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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).

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

Employer details
Employer name: Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Address: St Michael's Hospital, Southwell Street, Bristol, BS2 8EG, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.uhbw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Retention and Recruitment Midwife, Jackie Tang, MidwiferyRecruitment@uhbw.nhs.uk

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer.