Job summary
This advert is specifically for Band 6 Midwives who are post preceptorship and have clinical experience.

Is making a difference what drives you most? Are you caring and fair, treating everyone individually? Is doing the right thing important to you? Are you reliable, hardworking, and committed to excellence?

If this sounds like you, and you value the responsibility and accountability of being a midwife, we'd love to hear from you.

We are seeking an enthusiastic Band 6 Continuity of Carer Midwife to join our supportive team. You will provide personalised care to women, birthing people, and families throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period.

You'll work flexibly and autonomously across antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal settings (inpatient/community) with a defined caseload, ensuring seamless continuity for those in your care. You'll role model best practice, support junior staff and promote high standards across our service.

You will join a small integrated approachable team that values personalised care, teamwork and growth. Our commitment was reflected in our recent CQC inspection, where maternity services were ratedGood.

Main duties of the job
As a dedicated midwife, your main duties will revolve around providing safe, clinically effective and individualised care to women and birthing people throughout their pregnancy journey.

This role offers the opportunity to build meaningful relationships, support positive birth experiences, and make a genuine impact on the health and wellbeing of our community. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will deliver safe, high-quality, and compassionate care.

We are committed to the national maternity agenda and also have an impressive home birth record.

You'll work flexibly across antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal settings (inpatient/community) with a defined caseload, ensuring seamless continuity for those in your care. Excellent communication, clinical confidence, and a passion for promoting choice are essential.

When working in one of our established teams, you will have time to complete visits for your caseload, and other times where you will be available to care for women in labour (hospital, birth centre and home).You and your team write your own rota, decide on annual leave and support each other in weekly team meetings. This allows you to gain transferrable skills such as time management, prioritisation and team working.

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.

Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for Band 6 Midwives to view the full details for this opportunity at Worcestershire Acute Hospital NHS Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications and skills. If there are a large amount of applications, it is vital that you also aim to evidence any desirable criteria to show case your suitability for this position.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• 1) Please demonstrate your knowledge and practical experience across a broad range of maternity services
• 2) Experience within a UK maternity setting
• 2) Experience of mentoring junior colleagues/students

Desirable

• 1) Experience in service development or clinical governance projects
• 2) Experience of working in a community or continuity of carer setting

Skills/Knowledge
Essential

• 1) Please demonstrate how, as a midwife, you ensure your practice is guided by current evidence-based practice and the importance of this.
• 2) Competent in Venepuncture & Cannulation
• 3) Competenct in IV Therapy
• 4) Competent in Perineal Suturing

Desirable

• 1) Familiarity with maternity-specific IT systems (e.g., BadgerNet).

Personal Qualities
Essential

• 1) Please provide examples of your flexibility, reliability, and adaptability.
• 2) Please demonstrate, with examples, how you have used strong organisational and time management skills to achieve results while working collaboratively with others.

Desirable

• 1) Please provide examples that demonstrate your leadership potential and ability to influence positive change in practice.

Qualifications
Essential

• 1) BSc (Hons) Midwifery or equivalent qualification
• 2) UK NMC registration as a Midwife
• 3) Completion of practice supervisor or assessor training.

Desirable

• 1) NIPE Training
• 2) Advanced training or certification in specialist areas

Motivation and Commitment to the Organisation
Essential

• 1) Please explain why you would like to work at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and what attracts you to this organisation.
• 2) Please demonstrate your passion and long term investment within continuity of care and why you would prefer this model of care

Other Job Requirements
Essential

• 1) Ability to undertake manual handling and movement tasks
• 2) Professional appearance in line with trust uniform policy
• 3) Valid UK driving license and access to a vehicle (for commuting in the community setting)
• 4) Ability to participate in the on-call rota and work flexibly (including nights and weekends to support cover of a 24/7 service)

Desirable

• 1) Willingness to undertake secondments or extended roles

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 (opens in a new window).