Registered Midwife
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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 a Band 6 Registered Midwife to join the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Exeter or Barnstaple. You will work in a proactive, supportive, and dynamic multi-professional team within maternity services, which may include integrated teams (community caseload and labour care) or unit-based teams. The service supports various birth choices, including homebirths, stand-alone units, alongside units, and labour wards. You will have opportunities to gain experience in different working styles and support learners.
Essential criteria
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Desirable criteria
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- General Requirements
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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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Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Registered Midwife
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
These roles are for Band 6 Midwives, registered with the NMC, wanting to work in Devon as part of a proactive, supportive, dynamic multi-professional team. We have some permanent posts available in our maternity services in both Exeter and Barnstaple. In Exeter and the surrounding area these posts are placed in our integrated teams ( community caseload and labour care) or unit based team. In North Devon these posts are unit based / community.
Due to our locations we have developed our service to meet the needs of our women and birthing people. To provide them with choice of place of delivery we support homebirths, births in a stand alone unit, births in an alongside unit, and births in a labour ward. Midwives can gain experience in different ways of working, leadership styles, and management styles as well as supporting a range of learners working in our area and helping us develop their knowledge and skills.
We have specialist midwives working in areas such as safeguarding, complex care, infant feeding, PMA, transformation, birth experiences, vaccinations, screening, safety and quality and education who are happy to share their knowledge, skills and support.
Applicants need to have current NMC registration and evidence of recent Midwifery e
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