Bank Midwife Band 6 | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A large healthcare organization in London seeks experienced and newly qualified midwives to join the Bank Midwife team. You will provide high-quality antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care to women and their families within an integrated maternity service. The role includes working autonomously and as part of a multi-professional team across various clinical areas. This position offers an opportunity to deliver World Class Care in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Must provide antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care.
• Experience in making autonomous clinical decisions.
• Ability to work across various clinical areas.

Responsibilities

• Provide midwifery care to mothers and babies.
• Make clinical decisions during emergencies.
• Work collaboratively in multi-professional teams.

Skills

Midwifery care

Autonomous practitioner

Clinical decision-making

Job description

To work as part of the Multi-professional team providing a high standard of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal midwifery care to women and their families within the integrated maternity service.

To be part of the Bank Midwife team supporting excellence in midwifery care.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust became a new enlarged organisation on 1 July 2014. We now consist of the Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital.

We are offering exciting opportunities for newly qualified and experienced midwives to join our team as a bank midwife. We provide maternity services across a large part of North and Central London. We also have services based across the community. Joining together has meant that we have been able to expand in many areas of midwifery. This includes having 3 consultant midwives, midwifery teams leading on complex psychosocial care; we have two alongside Birth Centres and one stand‑alone at the Edgware Birth Centre. Our midwives are based either within the cross-site community teams, at the Royal Free Hospital or at the Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital and Edgware.

The post holder will offer World Class Care to service users, staff, colleagues, clients and patients alike so that everyone at the Royal Free can feel:

• Welcomeall of the time
• Confident because we are clearlyCommunicating
• Respectedand cared for
• Reassuredthat they are always in safe hands

To work as part of the Multi-professional team providing a high standard of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal midwifery care to women and their families within the integrated maternity service. To rotate within all clinical areas within maternity services to support professional development and maintain safe standards of midwifery care in line with service provision.

Main duties

• Provide a high standard of midwifery care to mothers and babies during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period.
• Take autonomous clinical decisions in an emergency to ensure safe outcomes for mother and baby
• Able to work as an autonomous practitioner in all aspects of midwifery practice

This advert closes on Sunday 16 Nov 2025.