Community Midwife

Train Work Live; Welshpool; Remote; GBP 41,000 - 49,000; Part time

Job summary

Powys Teaching Health Board in Welshpool is seeking a Band 6 Midwife on a 12-month fixed term, part-time 22.5 hours per week. You will provide care across preconception, antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods and manage your own caseload within the continuity of care model.

You will work autonomously within NICE guidelines, support women and families, and access ongoing professional development and training opportunities within a supportive maternity service.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with knowledge of Midwifery 20:20 and All Wales Normal Labour Pathway.
• Post Registration education and updating in line with NMC fitness to practice.
• Homebirth experience and ability to lead in obstetric emergencies.
• Fetal heart monitoring and neonatal examination skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide care for women and families across preconception to postnatal.
• Manage own caseload using continuity of care model.
• Work autonomously within NICE guidelines and local professional practice.
• Support ongoing professional development and access to training.

Skills

Caseload management

Autonomous practitioner

Team working

Decision making

Education

Registered Midwife

Job description

Main area Midwifery Grade Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Per Annum Pro Rata) Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week Job ref 070-NMR105-1126

Employer Powys Teaching Health Board Employer type NHS Site Welshpool Birth Centre, Victoria Memorial Hospital Town Welshpool Salary £40,559 - £48,841 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 17/11/2026 23:59

Job overview

Fixed Term for 12 months t o meet the needs of the service

To provide advice support and care of women and their families during
the preconceptual, antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods.
Provide a full range of health, education and social care advice to women
within an integrated model of care covering pre-conception, antenatal,
labour, birth and postnatal periods. Manage your own caseload of clients using the continuity of care model, throughout their pregnancy, labour, birth and postnatal period for clients and their babies.
Work autonomously within local and NICE evidence based guidelines and within your sphere of professional practice.

Main duties of the job

Passionate about midwifery? Do you want to use all of your midwifery skills and have excellent job satisfaction ? Then Powys maternity services may well be the place for you.

Due to exciting development within the maternity service, we are looking for a motivated midwife to join our midwifery team in Welshpool.

You will be joining a service with one of the highest home birth rates in Wales, a high physiological birth rate and the highest breastfeeding rate in Wales. You will be supporting women choosing to birth at one of our 6 free standing birth centres, 5 of which provide water birth facilities.

You will provide and coordinate antenatal and postnatal care for both midwife led care and consultant led women.

As a service, we are passionate about supporting midwives ongoing professional development and the opportunity to access an award winning training during your employment.

Working for our organisation

Being the smallest Health Board in Wales means that you won’t get lost in the crowd. Everybody at Powys Teaching Health Board is valued for the contribution they make to our varied and diverse portfolio of community-based services. Together, we can continue to make a real difference to our patients and build on our unrivalled reputation.

As a supportive and progressive employer, we actively encourage you to carve out a career with us, through a range of development pathways. We’re also lucky enough to be situated in one of the most beautiful rural counties in Britain, let alone Wales! Achieving a healthy ’life work’ balance is essential, and something we recognise by prioritising your well-being.

To start your journey with us, and to learn more about what we can offer you please visit: https://pthb.nhs.wales/working-for-us/ . There you will find information about our benefits and values, read staff experiences and more about what our beautiful county has to offer.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers; but even if you don’t speak any Welsh, or want to develop your skills, don’t worry: the health board will support you with training.

Person specification

Qualifications and/or Knowledge

• Registered Midwife
• Awareness of political and wider health agenda specifically Midwifery 20:20 and All Wales Normal Labour Pathway.
• Post Registration education and professional updating in line with NMC fitness to practice
• Child Protection in line with LSCB
• Homebirth

Experience

• Post registration clinical experience
• Range of clinical experience
• Suturing – Able to suture without supervision
• Obstetric emergencies – competent to lead in the management of an emergency
• Homebirth – Able to attend as first midwife without supervision
• Fetal Heart Monitoring – Able to interpret fetal heart deviations from normal and call appropriate help (pinnard/sonicaid)
• Resuscitation – competent to participate as the lead in resuscitation
• Cannulation – Able to cannulate without supervision
• Venipuncture – Able to perform venipuncture competently
• Examination of the newborn – Able to undertake examination of the newborn following birth and in the postnatal period unsupervised

Aptitude and Abilities

• Normality – Able to promote, assess and deliver alternative methods to normalize care both antenatally and intrapartum
• Breastfeeding – Able to discuss and practically apply UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative Team Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
• Antenatal Screening – Under supervision able to discuss and provide information on antenatal screening tests offered and able to give details of the choices women have following a positive screening result
• Research, audit and evaluation skills to ensure a high-quality service
• Caseload Management with the skill to work as autonomous practitioner
• Ability to work as a team member
• Ability to plan, organize and clear decision making skills and prioritising
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Able to discuss and provide information on antenatal screening tests offered to women in pregnancy and give the reasons why they are offered and be able to give details of the choices women have following a positive screening result
• Ability to speak Welsh

Values

• Empathetic and reassurance skills to deal with potential highly complex and sensitive circumstances that can often be emotional and distressing

other

• Ability to travel
• Ability to cover on call cover for service (team and wider area)
• Physical ability to handle equipment to meet the role of an integrated midwife within a community setting

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.

Name Carys Griffiths
Job title Team Leader
Email address [e-mail]
Telephone number 07968849526
Additional information

Please feel free to contact me if you have any queries about the post. Thank you