Specialist Midwife - Drugs, Alcohol & Mental Health
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 07/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and passionate midwife to join the specialist midwifery team at Saint Mary's North Manchester, focusing on Drugs, Alcohol, and Perinatal Mental Health. The role involves supporting women with these complex issues by ensuring appropriate services and support are in place, benefiting families, babies, and children. The specialist midwife will work closely with mental health teams and various agencies across Greater Manchester, playing a crucial role in coordination, liaison, and safeguarding.
Key responsibilities
- Work closely with mental health teams and facilitate perinatal mental health clinics.
- Coordinate and liaise with numerous agencies across Greater Manchester, including drug and alcohol services, IAPT, and community mental health teams.
- Undertake significant safeguarding duties, including writing reports and attending various professional meetings.
- Act as a visible and accessible resource for staff, providing evidence-based advice, support, and information.
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Relevant Degree
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experienced Band 6 midwife
- Evidence of multidisciplinary/multi agency working
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Record keeping and documentation
- Ability to make calm rational decisions in the face of adversity
- Able to work flexibly
- Treats colleagues with dignity and respect.
- Capacity to work with in a multidisciplinary team
- Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour.
- Inspires others and leads by example.
- Evidence of teaching and assessing skills/ability
- Clinically competent in all areas of midwifery inclusive of Intrapartum Care
- Proven workload IT skills management of self and of others
- Proven ability to problem solve.
- Effective organisational skills
- Good analytical and clinical decision making skills
- Awareness of Clinical Effectiveness process
Desirable criteria
- Leadership modules
- Knowledge in mental health and drugs and alcohol dependency in maternity services
- IT skills
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 2d ago · Closes in 5d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Job summary
Are you a dynamic and passionate midwife who wants to expand their knowledge and experience in a specialist midwifery role . This is an exciting opportunity to join the specialist midwifery team for Drugs , Alcohol and Perinatal Mental Health at the Saint Marys North Manchester
Specialist midwives are crucial to supporting women with mental health , drug and alcohol issues. They ensure that the correct services and support are put in place which will then go on to have huge benefits for families , babies and children .
Main duties of the job
The team works closely with the mental health teams across Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust and facilitates perinatal mental health clinics alongside the perinatal mental health psychiatrists and mental health care coordinators.
Coordination and liaison is a vital component of the team's role as the team work alongside numerous agencies across the Greater Manchester footprint including the drugs and alcohol services , IAPT , community mental health teams , infant and parenting services , health visiting teams and cross boundary midwifery services
Safeguarding is a significant part of the teams role as they write reports for and attend professionals meeting , strategy meetings , initial child protection conferences , core groups, child in need meeting and discharge planning meeting .
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