Midwife

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the East Midlands seeks Registered Midwives for Band 6 positions in their Maternity Services. The role involves ensuring safe, women-centered care and leading multidisciplinary teams. The Trust prides itself on providing extensive support and development opportunities to its staff. Ideal candidates will have a passion for maternity care and qualifications as a registered midwife.

Benefits

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Car schemes

Qualifications

• Must be a registered midwife with appropriate qualifications.
• Experience in maternity care is essential.
• Ability to work flexibly across various maternity service models.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe, clinically effective, women-centered care.
• Lead and support multidisciplinary teams in maternity services.
• Accountable for the care and experience of women, babies, and families.

Skills

Clinical effectiveness

Leadership

Midwifery advice

Team collaboration

Education

Registered Midwife certification

Job description

Overview

Are you a Registered Midwife? We have exciting opportunities within our Maternity Services for Band 6 Midwives at Queens Hospital Burton site. UHDB has one of the largest maternity services in the UK, providing maternity care across Derbyshire and into Staffordshire. We offer woman-centred, family-friendly care with models including midwife-led care, continuity of carer, and specialist obstetric care for more complex needs, as well as community midwifery services.

Responsibilities

As a registered midwife you will be responsible and accountable for ensuring women, babies and families receive safe, clinically effective, women-centred care across antenatal, labour and birth, and postnatal pathways. You will lead by example, develop others, offer midwifery advice, support and manage services, and work flexibly across the service within differing models of maternity care, including continuity of carer. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver care to women and babies with complex needs and provide midwifery leadership, being accountable for the women, babies, public and staff experience.

This will be in line with local, trust-wide and national policies, procedures, values and behaviours.

What we offer / Benefits

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• Ongoing support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day
• UHDB is a research-active University Hospital with a large portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff

Closing date of applications: 8 October 2025

Date of interview: 22 October 2025

Contact

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