Community Midwife
Company: The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Job ID: C9225-26-0794
Closing date: 15 November 2026
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year pro rata per annum
Band: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Location: Community, New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, WV10 0QP

Job summary
Band 6 Community Midwife

Do you want to make a difference to families and their community?

Here is an excellent opportunity for you as a committed, caring, experienced midwife to utilise and develop the full range of your clinical skills and enhance the community midwifery service.

Working in a diverse community as part of a supportive team and with links to other family services Family Nurse Partnership, Children's centres, Family support workers, GP's and Health Visitors you will carry a caseload providing holistic care for women and their families, promoting safety and home birth as well as supporting women with high-risk pregnancies during the period from conception to parenthood.

You will be supported by the Trust with training, supervision, specialist midwives to develop your practice further.

We have permanent positions for enthusiastic and highly motivated individual who enjoys the challenges of working in a team of community midwives working from the Trust in community teams.

The primary aim of this post is to provide antenatal, low risk intrapartum and postnatal care to women in the community/ home environment. You will embrace the challenges of working in a community team. You will have the opportunity to provide women with support during their labour in the home setting or hospital setting and you will participate in the on call rota.

Main duties of the job
You will be expected to be responsible for your own caseload and clinics in the community on a day to day basis. You will be expected to work weekdays and weekends and to be on call overnight. You may be requested to act up for the team leader as required. You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team to provide women with timely care either in the home or other setting.

You will need to be a band 6 Midwife. You will need to be a car driver with own vehicle and will need to be able to meet the travel requirements of the post.

You will have the opportunity to participate in all aspects of training with regards to various studies, trials and proposed changes to procedures and protocols.

Opportunities are available to undertake postgraduate courses and in-house training with the Trust

About us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients. We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020. The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Job responsibilities

• Knowledge and experience in all areas of maternity services developed through continuing professional knowledge
• Autonomous practitioner skills
• Well developed IT skills.
• Knowledge of professional midwifery advocate.
• Evidence of excellent presentation, teaching verbal and written skills.
• Evidence of involvement in the development of protocols and clinical audit.
• Evidence of risk management experience and expertise.
• Ability to supervise learners
• Experts for the following procedures: venepuncture, perineal suturing and highly technical monitoring.
• Knowledge and ability to work within both normal and abnormal antenatal care, labour and postnatal care and to deal appropriately with emergencies in the absence of medical staff.
• Knowledge of Child protection policy and legislation in practice.
• Effective communication with good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to cope with complex obstetric and medical situations.
• Effective counseling skills when dealing with face to face consultations within the maternity setting.
• Ability to communicate to groups of people including parenting skills and childbirth knowledge
• Ability to liaise with specialist agencies e.g. Social services. Acts as advice resource for GPs / A&E / Hospital and wards.
• Awareness of health and safety issues within the community setting and compliant
• Uses appropriate moving and manual handling techniques, as part of daily activities within the community setting and assisting women during birth, post operatively and during the post natal period.
• Constant application of analytical skills to practice
• Competence in handling a vehicle in all weather conditions

Essential qualifications

• Current UK NMC Midwife Registration
• Diploma level studies or equivalent portfolio of evidence
• Successful completion of a mentorship course
• Child protection training. Sound knowledge of child protection, domestic violence, substance misuse and women with special needs.
• Basic neonatal and adult life support knowledge and skills

Essential experience

• Knowledge and experience in all areas of maternity services developed through continuing professional knowledge
• Experts for the following procedures: venepuncture, cannulation, perineal suturing and highly technical monitoring
• Knowledge and ability to work within both normal and abnormal antenatal care, labour and postnatal care and to deal appropriately with emergencies in the absence of medical staff
• Knowledge of Child protection policy and legislation in practice

Essential working environment and conditions

• Ability to work as autonomous practitioner within the community setting
• Car Driver and car owner

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.

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

Contact: Charlotte Mahon, Community Matron, charlotte.mahon5@nhs.net, 01902307999
Employer website: https://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk/
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