Community Birth Team Midwife, Band 6
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 04/10/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced midwife to join a new Community Birth Team, focusing on providing woman-centred antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care, particularly for those choosing home or midwifery-led unit births. The midwife will work autonomously in the community, promoting physiological birth and informed choice, while also managing emergencies and transfers. This is an opportunity to help shape and develop a new service, contributing to its culture and ways of working.
Essential criteria
- Active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- United Kingdom recognised Degree in Midwifery Practice
- Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation
- Current experience and evidence of working as a Band 6 midwife or above
- Knowledge and Skills
- Able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate
- Personally resilient and able to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment.
- Excellent presentational, communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrates ability to maintain and contribute to the development of standards of practice, conduct or decision making in conjunction with team, Lead Midwives, Consultant Obstetricians
- Demonstrates ability to use clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess, diagnose, plan and offer a range of treatment options; deliver, evaluate and amend the treatment plan.
- Acts as a role model and are able to lead by example to ensure the Trust's values and behaviours are reinforced throughout their area of practice.
- Able to supervise non-registered and less experienced staff to ensure effective service and care delivery.
- Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety
- Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence midwifery practice relating to area of clinical practice, management, education and research.
- Demonstrates ability to question and challenge midwifery practice in a constructive way so that standards of care are continually evaluated and improved.
- Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative and prioritise workload
Desirable criteria
- Able to contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/protocols/guidelines relevant to area of practice.
- Tenacity to pursue goals energetically and succeed despite resistance
- Strong, professional leadership qualities, assertive and self-confident individual
- Ability to lead, manage and motivate all staff within sphere of responsibility
- Clinical / Experience
- Experience (through placement or employment) of working in an acute clinical environment
- Experience of providing intrapartum care within homebirth and/or midwifery-led birth unit settings
- Evidence of supporting physiological birth and promoting informed choice
- Full UK driving licence and ability to travel independently across the county
- Previous experience in a relevant speciality
- Experience of managing emergencies and transfers in a community setting
- Personal Attributes
- Enthusiastic and self-aware
- Creative and Flexible
- Resilient under pressure
- Team focused
- Reliable, Adaptable and Dependable
- Qualifications and Training
- Active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- United Kingdom recognised Degree in Midwifery Practice
- Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation
- Current experience and evidence of working as a Band 6 midwife or above
- Knowledge and Skills
- Able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate
- Personally resilient and able to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment.
- Excellent presentational, communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrates ability to maintain and contribute to the development of standards of practice, conduct or decision making in conjunction with team, Lead Midwives, Consultant Obstetricians
- Demonstrates ability to use clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess, diagnose, plan and offer a range of treatment options; deliver, evaluate and amend the treatment plan.
- Acts as a role model and are able to lead by example to ensure the Trust's values and behaviours are reinforced throughout their area of practice.
- Able to supervise non-registered and less experienced staff to ensure effective service and care delivery.
- Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety
- Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence midwifery practice relating to area of clinical practice, management, education and research.
- Demonstrates ability to question and challenge midwifery practice in a constructive way so that standards of care are continually evaluated and improved.
- Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative and prioritise workload
- Able to contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/protocols/guidelines relevant to area of practice.
- Tenacity to pursue goals energetically and succeed despite resistance
- Strong, professional leadership qualities, assertive and self-confident individual
- Ability to lead, manage and motivate all staff within sphere of responsibility
- Clinical / Experience
- Experience (through placement or employment) of working in an acute clinical environment
- Experience of providing intrapartum care within homebirth and/or midwifery-led birth unit settings
- Evidence of supporting physiological birth and promoting informed choice
- Full UK driving licence and ability to travel independently across the county
- Previous experience in a relevant speciality
- Experience of managing emergencies and transfers in a community setting
- Personal Attributes
- Enthusiastic and self-aware
- Creative and Flexible
- Resilient under pressure
- Team focused
- Reliable, Adaptable and Dependable
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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Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Community Birth Team Midwife, Band 6
The closing date is 04 October 2026
Job summary
We are inviting internal applications from experienced midwives who would like to be part of our new Community Birth Team and help shape the service from the very beginning. This is an exciting opportunity to become one of our trailblazers. Midwives who will help establish the team, develop how we work together and influence the culture and ways of working as the service grows. The Community Birth Team has been designed with midwives and staff involvement at the beginning of its development. We have worked hard to develop a flexible staffing and on call model that supports work life balance and recognise the competing priorities that staff have outside of work.
We are particularly keen to hear from experienced midwives who are passionate about supporting women to birth in their chosen setting and who want to play an active role in creating something new.
Joining at this stage means you will have a genuine opportunity to influence how the team develops. We are looking for enthusiastic, adaptable and self aware midwives who want to contribute to creating a supportive, psychologically safe and clinically excellent team. If you want to be part of creating something new, have your voice heard and help shape the future of community birth i
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