Band 6 Midwife

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Luton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Band 6 Midwife to provide holistic care within maternity services. Responsibilities include managing caseloads, supervising staff, and ensuring excellent care delivery. The role requires completing a preceptorship programme and involves collaboration with various healthcare teams. This position offers a dynamic working environment in newly designed facilities, making a positive impact on patients and their families.

Benefits

Modern facilities for staff and patients

Dedicated areas for patient mobilisation

Co-designed spaces with user input

Qualifications

• Must demonstrate midwifery leadership in practice.
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care.
• Experience in leading or collaborating with a team.

Responsibilities

• Provide holistic midwifery care.
• Manage ward/department/community caseload.
• Supervise and teach staff; mentor student midwives.

Education

Completed preceptorship programme

Job description

Overview

Are you looking for a new challenge? We are welcoming applications from Band 6 Midwives who have completed their preceptorship programme.

Responsibilities

• Provide holistic woman/birthing people/baby centred midwifery care; leading or collaborating with multidisciplinary team.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for women/birthing people/baby.
• Manage/lead the ward/department/community caseload on a shift‑by‑shift basis.
• Collaborate with external agencies and consumer groups.
• Supervise and teach staff; mentor/assessor for midwifery students.
• Provide midwifery leadership in all areas of midwifery practice; demonstrate autonomy, advocacy for women and excellent decision making style.
• Support clinical teams and Band 7 Team Managers in the execution of role.
• Ensure sound up‑to‑date advice to women and families in all care settings according to NICE and Government initiatives.
• Promote wellbeing and safeguarding of children and young people by implementing Trust's policy and procedures.
• Facilitate parenting education during antenatal/postnatal period.
• Record and report any untoward incidents and take action to avoid further incidents.
• Promote health and wellbeing through practice and education of women/bir people, relatives, carers and staff.
• Support student midwives and other healthcare professionals as mentors and sign‑off mentors and assessors.

Qualifications

Band 6 Midwives who have completed their preceptorship programme.

Benefits

• Modern and spacious facilities for our pregnant women / birthing people, their families and our staff.
• Dedicated courtyard to support mobilisation in labour.
• Separate courtyard for staff to use.
• Co‑designed areas with service user and stakeholder input, which is highly valued.

Additional Information

It is an exciting time at the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital as maternity, neonatal, critical care and theatre services will be moving to the brand new Acute Services Block (ASB) and New Ward Block in Autumn 2025.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.

Travel between hospital sites may be required.