Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Rotational Midwife
The closing date is 03 December 2026

Job summary
We are seeking experienced Band 6 Midwives to join our supportive maternity team. This varied role offers opportunities to develop your career across community, midwifery-led, inpatient and specialist maternity services. You'll rotate through:

• Community and Continuity of Carer Teams
• Midwifery Led Units at St Michael's and Weston Hospitals
• Ante/Postnatal Ward
• Central Delivery Suite
• Transitional Care Unit
• Maternity Triage Unit

Our Community Teams and Midwifery Led Units provide opportunities to support low-risk pregnancies, births and postnatal care, building meaningful relationships with families and delivering personalised care. You'll also gain exposure to specialist maternity services within the South West's major tertiary Fetal Medicine Unit.

Our service offers one of the widest ranges of midwifery experiences within a single Trust, enabling you to develop your skills across multiple settings throughout your career. We are proud to offer exceptional career development opportunities, with many of our Band 6 midwives progressing into specialist and leadership roles.

Please note: This vacancy is open to midwives with post-registration experience, able to practise at Band 6 level. Newly qualified midwives, students awaiting PIN and candidates requiring Band 5 preceptorship are not eligible.
Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job
Join a maternity service that actively invests in its people. With four continuity teams, a Midwifery-Led Unit, specialist maternity services and a homebirth service all within one Trust, you'll gain exposure to an exceptional breadth of midwifery practice.

• 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.

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 November 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-TA-W&C8441-JN-3
Job locations: St Michael's Hospital, Southwell Street, Bristol, BS2 8EG, United Kingdom

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

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/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Midwifery Recruitment Team, MidwiferyRecruitment@uhbw.nhs.uk