Community Midwife
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Band 6 Community Midwife to join a supportive team in a diverse community. You will manage a caseload, providing holistic antenatal, low-risk intrapartum, and postnatal care to women and their families, promoting safety and home birth. The role involves working weekdays, weekends, and participating in an on-call rota, with opportunities for training and professional development.
Essential criteria
- Current UK NMC Midwife Registration
- Diploma level studies or equivalent portfolio of evidence
- Successful completion of a mentorship course
- Child protection training. Sound knowledge of child protection, domestic violence, substance misuse and women with special needs.
- Basic neonatal and adult life support knowledge and skills
- Knowledge and experience in all areas of maternity services developed through continuing professional knowledge
- Experts for the following procedures: venepuncture, cannulation, perineal suturing and highly technical monitoring
- Knowledge and ability to work within both normal and abnormal antenatal care, labour and postnatal care and to deal appropriately with emergencies in the absence of medical staff
- Knowledge of Child protection policy and legislation in practice
- Working Environment and Conditions
- Ability to work as autonomous practitioner within the community setting
- Car Driver and car owner
- Current UK NMC Midwife Registration
- Diploma level studies or equivalent portfolio of evidence
- Successful completion of a mentorship course
- Child protection training. Sound knowledge of child protection, domestic violence, substance misuse and women with special needs.
- Basic neonatal and adult life support knowledge and skills
- Knowledge and experience in all areas of maternity services developed through continuing professional knowledge
- Experts for the following procedures: venepuncture, cannulation, perineal suturing and highly technical monitoring
- Knowledge and ability to work within both normal and abnormal antenatal care, labour and postnatal care and to deal appropriately with emergencies in the absence of medical staff
- Knowledge of Child protection policy and legislation in practice
- Working Environment and Conditions
- Ability to work as autonomous practitioner within the community setting
- Car Driver and car owner
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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The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Community Midwife
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
Band 6 Community Midwife
Do you want to make a difference to families and their community?
Here is an excellent opportunity for you as a committed, caring, experienced midwife to utilise and develop the full range of your clinical skills and enhance the community midwifery service.
Working in a diverse community as part of a supportive team and with links to other family services Family Nurse Partnership, Children's centres, Family support workers, GP's and Health Visitors you will carry a caseload providing holistic care for women and their families, promoting safety and home birth as well as supporting women with high-risk pregnancies during the period from conception to parenthood.
You will be supported by the Trust with training, supervision, specialist midwives to develop your practice further.
We have permanent positions for enthusiastic and highly motivated individual who enjoys the challenges of working in a team of community midwives working from the Trust in community teams.
The primary aim of this post is to provide antenatal, low risk intrapartum and postnatal care to women in the community/ home environment. You will embrace the challenges of working in a community team. You will have the opportunity to provide women with support during their l
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