Registered Midwife

NHS Professionals Limited; Torbay; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Newfoundland and Labrador is seeking a dedicated Midwife. Responsibilities include assessing the needs of families, delivering evidence-based midwifery care, and providing antenatal services. Applicants must have at least 12 months of paid experience within the last two years and comply with NMC Professional Registration. The role offers flexible shifts and career progression opportunities, ensuring a balanced work-life while delivering quality care.

Benefits

Flexible shifts

Career progression opportunities

Wellbeing resources

Qualifications

• A minimum of 12 months paid experience as a Midwife within the last 2 years.
• Must comply with NMC Professional Registration.
• Evidence of completed CTG and neonatal resus training in the past 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Assess needs of women, partners, families, and carers.
• Plan, deliver, and evaluate evidence-based midwifery care.
• Provide full antenatal care and parenting classes.
• Identify high-risk pregnancies.

Skills

Midwifery care

CTG (Foetal Surveillance)

Neonatal/New-born Resus training

Assessment skills

Job description

We provide health and social care services to our people in their own homes or in their local community. We also run Torbay Hospital (providing acute hospital services) as well as five community hospitals, stretching from Dawlish to Brixham.

We support around 500,000 face-to-face contacts with patients in their homes and communities each year and see over 78,000 people in our A&E department annually. We serve a resident population of approximately 286,000 people, plus about 100,000 visitors at any one time during the summer holiday season.

We are passionate about creating a fairer and more inclusive NHS for everyone.

We employ over 6,500 staff, including doctors, nurses, social workers, consultants, and allied health professionals, as well as highly skilled managers, administrators, and technical experts. Our people work in a wide range of settings and locations across our communities, depending on their individual role or circumstances.

Main duties of the job

What you'll be responsible for:

• Assessing the needs of women, partners, families, and carers
• Plan, deliver and evaluate standards of evidence-based midwifery care.
• Providing full antenatal care, including parenting classes, clinical examinations, and screening
• Identifying high-risk pregnancies
• The role will involve, but not be limited to you performing the above.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Job responsibilities

Why might this job interest you?

Being a midwife in the NHS is a profoundly rewarding career that revolves around providing essential care and support to expectant mothers and their families throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period. Midwives build strong relationships with women and their families, guiding them through the journey of pregnancy with empathy and compassion. The flexibility in scheduling enables midwives to manage their work-life balance effectively, ensuring they can deliver high-quality, personalised care while meeting their own needs and commitments. Being a midwife is not just a profession but a calling to make a meaningful impact on the lives of mothers and babies, fostering health and well-being from the very beginning.

What you can add:

• Assessing the needs of women, partners, families, and carers
• Plan, deliver and evaluate standards of evidence-based midwifery care
• Providing full antenatal care, including parenting classes, clinical examinations and screening
• Identifying high-risk pregnancies

The role will involve, but not be limited to you performing the above

Person Specification

Qualifications

• A minimum of 12 months paid experience as a Midwife within the last 2 years Comply with NMC Professional Registration and keep up to date with current nursing practices
• Must be able to evidence that CTG (Foetal Surveillance) & Neonatal/New-born Resus (not paediatric) training has been completed in past 12-months

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.