Job summary
Exciting opportunity for an experienced Band 6 Midwife with a passion for physiological birth to join Meadow Birth Centre team

We welcome applications for full-time and part-time. As part of our supportive team, you will work a range of shifts across our 24-hour, 7-day service, including days, nights, weekends, and bank holidays.

Applicants who applied to our recent advert and assessed are not required to apply again.

Main duties of the job

• Act as the professional lead for low risk women, promoting physiological birthing process.
• Be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care within the practice area and to provide and maintain high standards of midwifery care.
• Teach, motivate and encourage high standards of practice whilst furthering personal knowledge and experience.
• Accept responsibility for own personal and professional development
• Contribute to the learning environment of the practice area to enable students and new members of the practice area team to be supported
• To provide effective leadership and to act as a good role model.
• To supervise junior staff and to teach qualified and unqualified staff, acting as a mentor, as appropriate, providing advice and support as necessary.
• Work autonomously within guidelines and spheres of professional practice.
• To take all measures to ensure safety and report all accidents/incidents to the Ward Manager/Matron/Divisional Director of Midwifery and to monitor the safe and effective use of all equipment and the economic use of supplies.
• Maintain accurate management records at all times, ensuring appropriate reporting mechanisms are used.
• To assist in other wards/department of the maternity services if the clinical situation or staffing levels demand.
• Have ability and skills to organise own workload
• Be able to cannulate and suture

About us
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

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

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

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday 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 Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs
Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS 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 Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Key Duties
Patient Care

• To plan and deliver evidence based midwifery care in partnership with women and their families.
• To work collaboratively with women, respecting their right to make informed decisions about their care.
• To manage high risk labours in partnership with Consultant Midwife and Obstetric colleagues where women choose to use the Birth Centre outside of guidance.
• To provide a supportive relationship, acting as advocate for women and their families.
• Utilise the full skills of a midwife practitioner (both integral and extended) to women using the Birth Centre.
• Communicate effectively with multi-disciplinary professionals and agencies, ensuring seamless care at a high standard.
• To ensure that midwifery procedures/guidelines are implemented and maintained in accordance with the policies of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and national guidance.
• To be fully conversant in dealing with complex midwifery problems such as child protection issues.

Education and Training

• Supervise the training of qualified and unqualified staff, and assist junior staff to develop clinical and managerial skills, in accordance with their level of competence.
• To act as a preceptor for junior staff.
• To participate in teaching for all learners in accordance with their objectives, working closely with local education providers. To provide support and coaching as a supervisor/assessor to student midwives.
• To organise and provide training programmes in accordance with the identified needs for the ward.

Management

• To autonomously manage a caseload within the Birth Centre, making decisions and acting on care needs as they arise.
• To manage effectively the Birth Centre in the absence of the Ward Manager, co-ordinating and allocating work to staff.

Professional

• To maintain a professional attitude at all times developing the role of the midwife in the best interest of the women and profession in accordance with Nursing & Midwifery Council.
• Be responsible for maintaining accurate and contemporaneous midwifery records, written and electronic in accordance with the relevant NMC and Trust guidance.
• Participate in research projects where appropriate, reporting findings within a multi-disciplinary framework.

Personnel

• To participate in the selection and interviewing of junior staff within the ward/department.
• Participate in the devising and implementation of induction programmes for newly appointed staff.
• Participate in staff appraisal and the investigation of complaints and incidents.

Person Specification
Essential experience

• Able to demonstrate research based approach to care
• Effective communicator both written and verbal
• Able to undertake perineal repair, cannulation and IV drug administration
• Computer literate / IT skills
• Good organisational / time management skills
• Able to interpret and adhere to Trust and departmental policies protocols, procedures and guidelines
• Ability to problem solve
• Ability to prioritise work
• Flexible to change in demands of service
• Willing to learn new skills
• Ability to identify personal development needs
• Ability to support unregistered staff / students
• Ability to identify risk and understanding of Clinical Governance
• Proven experience in all areas of Midwifery Practice
• Proven experience of supervising staff and delegation
• Ability to take the professional lead in caring for low risk women

Essential qualifications

• Registered Midwife
• Evidence of further professional development to First Degree level or willingness to undertake
• Evidence of continuing education

Desirable

• Management experience
• Evidence of advanced midwifery studies
• Teaching and Assessing Qualification. NIPE qualification.
• Proven knowledge base / experience in speciality
• Experience of appraising staff

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.

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

Employer contact
Meadow Birth Centre Ward Manager, Claire Berrow, claire.berrow@nhs.net, 01905760812

Closing date: 17 November 2026

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