Home Birth Midwife
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate midwife to join the Artemis Home Birth team, an established continuity team supporting women planning home births. You will provide comprehensive care from booking through antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods, primarily at home. The role requires a confident and competent autonomous practitioner with significant experience in all aspects of midwifery care, including supporting women choosing to birth outside of guidance. You will be supported by the team and need to be a car owner/driver.
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Mentorship qualification or SSSA equivalent
- Significant clinical experience
Desirable criteria
- Further Education in Midwifery
- NLS accreditation
- NIPE qualification
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Significant post Registration experience in all aspects of midwifery practice
- Previous experience delivering care at woman/birthing people's home
- Skills and knowledge
- Excellent clinical midwifery skills and knowledge
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Competence in cannulation and suturing
- Experience using digital Maternity systems (e.g. Badgernet, CERNER)
- Personal attributes
- Flexible, responsive approach to work
- Has access to own car
- Registered Midwife
- Mentorship qualification or SSSA equivalent
- Significant clinical experience
- Further Education in Midwifery
- NLS accreditation
- NIPE qualification
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Significant post Registration experience in all aspects of midwifery practice
- Previous experience delivering care at woman/birthing people's home
- Skills and knowledge
- Excellent clinical midwifery skills and knowledge
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Competence in cannulation and suturing
- Experience using digital Maternity systems (e.g. Badgernet, CERNER)
- Personal attributes
- Flexible, responsive approach to work
- Has access to own car
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £45,953 – £54,254 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 9d
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Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
Home Birth Midwife
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity foramidwife who is passionate about physiological birth and supporting women to birth at home to join our Team of experienced home birth midwives. We are Artemis Home Birth, an established continuity team for women and their families who are planning home births.We provide all our care at home from booking throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods. We have a named consultant obstetrician and are supported by the wider MDT team including our specialist and consultant midwives. You will be a B6 midwife with significant experience of all aspects of midwifery care.You will need to be a confident and competent autonomous practitioner and able to demonstrate understanding, kindness and compassion for a caseload that includes women choosing to birth outside of guidance.You will be supported by the Team at every step of your journey. We'd like you to be NIPE trained and have NLS certification but can support you to gain these if not yet achieved.You will need to be a car owner/driver.
Main duties of the job
Some of the key duties of the job include:
o Fundamentally required to undertake all clinical activities that are required of a midwife
o Responsible for the assessment of care needs, the developm
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