Registered Midwife - Day Assessment Unit/Antenatal Clinic
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 22/09/2026
- Closes
- 05/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic midwife to join the outpatient maternity team, working in the day assessment unit and antenatal clinics. It offers a dynamic mix of clinical midwifery with a good work-life balance. This Band 6 position is open to experienced midwives who have completed an NHS preceptorship.
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
Desirable criteria
- Degree
- Ability to make appropriate Clinical Decisions
- Team working
- Multi disciplinary working
- Preceptorship completion
- Teaching/Mentoring Skills
- Skills, ability and knowledge
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Understanding of current NHS issues and initiatives + public health/political agenda
- Understanding of Clinical Governance and its application
- IT Skills
- Ability to prioritise and demonstrate time management and organisational skills
- Motivation and positive attitude towards change
- Positive and adaptable to the changing needs of the service
- Education
- Registered Midwife
- Degree
- Ability to make appropriate Clinical Decisions
- Team working
- Multi disciplinary working
- Preceptorship completion
- Teaching/Mentoring Skills
- Skills, ability and knowledge
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Understanding of current NHS issues and initiatives + public health/political agenda
- Understanding of Clinical Governance and its application
- IT Skills
- Ability to prioritise and demonstrate time management and organisational skills
- Motivation and positive attitude towards change
- Positive and adaptable to the changing needs of the service
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust
Registered Midwife - Day Assessment Unit/Antenatal Clinic
The closing date is 05 October 2026
Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic midwife to join our outpatient maternity team, working in our day assessment unit and also antenatal clinics.
This role offers a dynamic mix of clinical midwifery alongside excellent work life balance.
This is a band 6 midwife role open to experienced midwives who have completed an NHS preceptorship
Main duties of the job
Duties will include but not limited to:
Antenatal midwifery care
Taking and following up of laboratory samples
Antenatal screening tests and referral to screening team/fetal medicine
Day to day running of obstetric clinics
Midwife clinics - VBAC and Anti D
Administrative tasks such as referrals, booking appointments and ultrasound scans
Opportunities to lead and develop specialist clinics such as Complex maternal medicine and Multiple pregnancies.
Providing scheduled care in day assessment unit such as CTG monitoring, Pre-op assessments, IV infusions and Obstetric review, supporting our BSOTS Triage system.
About us
We operatefrom three main hospitals-Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom H
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