Bank Band 6 Midwife

Bedfordshire Hospitals; Bedford; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship of students

Job summary

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Band 6 Midwife on the Bank register at Luton and Dunstable. You will provide holistic, woman-centred care within a multidisciplinary team and lead care independently when needed.

The role emphasises teaching, supervision of midwifery students, and ongoing professional development to shape safe, confident practitioners within a modern maternity service.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with UK NMC registration.
• Teaching and assessing experience is desirable.
• Ongoing professional development is expected.

Responsibilities

• Provide midwifery leadership in all areas of practice with autonomy.
• Support the clinical teams and Band 7 Team Managers in their roles.
• Deliver midwifery care and educate women and families according to best practice.

Education

Registered Midwife

Fetal monitoring masterclass

Job description

Main area Midwifery Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Flexible working - 0 hours per week (Long day and long nights) Job ref 418-BMAT07253-EH

Site Luton and Dunstable NHS Trust, Town Luton Salary £39,959 - £48,117 paid at hourly rate £19.78 ph Salary period Yearly Closing 13/10/2026 23:59

Job overview

We are excited to invite applications from Midwives who have successfully completed their preceptorship programme and are looking for a fresh, rewarding challenge on our Bank register.

In this role, you’ll play an integral part in delivering truly holistic, person-centred care for women, birthing people, and their babies. Whether leading care independently or working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, you’ll champion pregnancy as a normal and transformative physiological experience. Your practice will involve assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care, ensuring every individual and family receives the highest standard of support.

Teaching and professional development are key elements of this position. You’ll contribute to the growth of the team by supervising colleagues and acting as a Mentor or Assessor for midwifery students, helping to shape the next generation of safe, confident, and inspired practitioners.

Main duties of the job

Provide midwifery leadership in all areas of midwifery practice, demonstrating autonomy, advocacy for women and an excellent decision making style.

Support the clinical teams and Band 7 Team Managers in the execution of his/her role.

To provide midwifery care, ensuring that sound up to date advice is given to women and their families in all care settings in accordance with best practice informed by NICE and Government initiatives.

Demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills

Working for our organisation

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

It is an exciting time at the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital as maternity, neonatal, critical care and theatre services have recently moved into a state of the art Acute Services Block.

Through this work, the Trust will be able to increase capacity, improve sustainability and efficiency, maintain and improve quality standards and support patient-centred clinical services. Care will be delivered in modern, uplifting and fit for purpose environments, that will also enhance the patient and staff experience.

The maternity services that have moved to the new clinical buildings are the Antenatal Ward, Delivery Suite and Obstetric Theatres, Maternity Triage, Midwifery Led Birthing Unit, Postnatal ward, Day Assessment Unit, Bereavement Suites and Transitional Care.

Benefits for staff:

Modern and spacious facilities for our pregnant women / birthing people, their families and our staff

Dedicated courtyard for to support mobilisation in labour

Separate courtyard for staff to use

Co‑designed areas with service user and stakeholder input which is highly valued

The midwife has a responsibility to provide holistic woman/birthing people/baby centred midwifery care; this maybe leading midwifery care or working in collaboration with the multi‑disciplinary team that advocates pregnancy as a normal physiological life event. The midwife will assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for the women/birthing people/baby. The role will encompass taking responsibility for the management/ leadership of the ward/department/ community caseload on a shift‑by‑shift basis. To collaborate with external agencies and consumer groups.

The Midwife (Band 6) participates in the supervision and teaching of staff as well as being a Mentor/Assessor for midwifery students.

Promote the wellbeing and safeguarding of children and young people by implementing the Trust’s policy and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

Assess, plan implement and evaluate care women/birthing people/babies for a defined caseload, using evidence to rationalise prescribed care.

Develop link with all care agencies to facilitate seamless approach to maternity care.

Practice within boundaries of autonomy as described by the NMC Code 2015.

Review practices to reduce clinical risk. Record and report any untoward incidents and take action to avoid further incidents.

Promote health and wellbeing through practice and education of women/birthing people, relatives, carers and staff

Support student midwives and other healthcare professional as a mentors and sign off mentors and assessors to ensure that the hospital/community midwifery experience meets the required practical and educational standards.

Facilitate parenting education to women/birthing people during the antenatal /postnatal period.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife
• Evidence of teaching and assessing experience
• Evidence of ongoing further professional and personal development
• Fetal monitoring masterclass attendance

Experience

• Suitable Post-Registration experience within relevant speciality
• Clinical experience in low and high risk intrapartum areas including cannulation, caring for women with epidurals, suturing
• Competent in CTG interpretation
• Teaching Antenatal classes

Knowledge

• NMC The Code (2015)
• Ensure care is provided based on evidence and in line with the protocols and guidelines of the unit
• Ability to deputise in the absence of Senior Midwife
• Able to support learners achieve department objectives
• Knowledge of clinical governance
• Knowledge of audit and research and standard setting

Personal skills

• Organisational skills and the ability to work effectively within a management structure
• Effective communicator and team player
• Analytical skills
• Work with the MDT as well as autonomously when required

It is an exciting time to join Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state‑of‑the‑art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.