Inpatient Midwife (Band 6)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 04/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic and compassionate Band 6 Midwife to join the maternity service at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. You will work autonomously across various maternity areas, delivering safe, holistic, and evidence-based care. The position involves role-modeling best practice, supporting junior colleagues, and contributing to high standards of care. You will provide clinically effective and individualised care to women and birthing people throughout their pregnancy journey.
Essential criteria
- 1) Ability to undertake manual handling and movement tasks
- 2) Professional appearance in line with trust uniform policy
Desirable criteria
- 1) Valid driving license or ability to travel between sites if required
- 2) Willingness to undertake secondments or extended roles
- 1) Please demonstrate your knowledge and practical experience across a broad range of maternity services
- 2) Please demonstrate your experience in a UK maternity setting.
- 3) Experience of mentoring junior colleagues/students
- 4) Experience of leading or coordinating a shift within a ward area, ensuring patient flow and team oversight
- 1) Experience in service development or clinical governance projects
- 1) Please provide examples of your flexibility, reliability, and adaptability, including your ability to work nights and weekends to support a 24/7 maternity service.
- 2) Please demonstrate, with examples, how you have used strong organisational and time management skills to achieve results while working collaboratively with others.
- 1) Please provide examples that demonstrate your leadership potential and ability to influence positive change in practice.
- Motivation and Commitment to the Organisation
- 1) Please explain why you would like to work at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and what attracts you to this organisation.
- Skills/Knowledge
- 1) Please demonstrate how, as a midwife, you ensure your practice is guided by current evidence-based practice and the importance of this.
- 2) Competent in Venepuncture & Cannulation
- 3) Competenct in IV Therapy
- 4) Competent in Perineal Suturing
- 1) Familiarity with maternity-specific IT systems (e.g., BadgerNet).
- 1) BSc (Hons) Midwifery or equivalent qualification
- 2) UK NMC registration as a Midwife
- 3) Completion of practice supervisor or assessor training.
- 1) NIPE Training
- 2) Advanced training or certification in specialist areas
- Other Job Requirements
- 1) Ability to undertake manual handling and movement tasks
- 2) Professional appearance in line with trust uniform policy
- 1) Valid driving license or ability to travel between sites if required
- 2) Willingness to undertake secondments or extended roles
- 1) Please demonstrate your knowledge and practical experience across a broad range of maternity services
- 2) Please demonstrate your experience in a UK maternity setting.
- 3) Experience of mentoring junior colleagues/students
- 4) Experience of leading or coordinating a shift within a ward area, ensuring patient flow and team oversight
- 1) Experience in service development or clinical governance projects
- 1) Please provide examples of your flexibility, reliability, and adaptability, including your ability to work nights and weekends to support a 24/7 maternity service.
- 2) Please demonstrate, with examples, how you have used strong organisational and time management skills to achieve results while working collaboratively with others.
- 1) Please provide examples that demonstrate your leadership potential and ability to influence positive change in practice.
- Motivation and Commitment to the Organisation
- 1) Please explain why you would like to work at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and what attracts you to this organisation.
- Skills/Knowledge
- 1) Please demonstrate how, as a midwife, you ensure your practice is guided by current evidence-based practice and the importance of this.
- 2) Competent in Venepuncture & Cannulation
- 3) Competenct in IV Therapy
- 4) Competent in Perineal Suturing
- 1) Familiarity with maternity-specific IT systems (e.g., BadgerNet).
- 1) BSc (Hons) Midwifery or equivalent qualification
- 2) UK NMC registration as a Midwife
- 3) Completion of practice supervisor or assessor training.
- 1) NIPE Training
- 2) Advanced training or certification in specialist areas
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.
Posted 9d ago · Closes in 6d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Job summary
Is making a difference what drives you most? Are you caring and fair, treating everyone individually? Are you reliable, hardworking, and committed to excellence?
If this aligns with your values as a midwife, we'd love to hear from you.
We are seeking enthusiastic, compassionate midwives to join our maternity service.
This advert is specifically for Band 6 Midwives who are post preceptorship and have clinical experience and will be able to commence within the next 3-4 months.
You'll work autonomously across Delivery Suite, Antenatal, Triage, and Postnatal Wards, delivering safe, holistic, evidence-based care. Youll role model best practice, support junior colleagues, and promote high standards across our service. Youll also have access to a dedicated retention midwife to support your ongoing development.
If you have applied to our recent midwife job adverts in the past 3 months, you'll have already been assessed, and so there is no need to re-apply to this job advert.
You'll work autonomously across Delivery Suite, Antenatal, Triage, and Postnatal Wards, delivering safe, holistic, evidence-based care. Youll role model best practice, support junior colleagues, and promote high standards across our service. Youll also have access to a dedicated retention midwife to support your ongoing development.
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