Midwife

Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Halifax; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a skilled Rotational Midwife to join their team. The role involves delivering quality care throughout the maternity services, working in various settings including the Maternity Assessment Centre and community environments. Candidates should be registered midwives with experience in both high and low-risk pregnancies. This position offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on maternal care while collaborating with a dedicated team.

Benefits

Health insurance

Generous leave policies

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Experience in providing antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care.
• Ability to manage high-risk and low-risk pregnancies.

Responsibilities

• Deliver excellent care in the Maternity Assessment Centre.
• Support women through antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal phases.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Experience in midwifery

Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team

Emergency response skills

Knowledge of maternity services

Education

Registered Midwife qualification

Job description

Rotational Midwife

Working within Maternity Assessment Centre delivering excellent care using the BSOTS to ensure women are appropriately triaged and treated when attending with pregnancy related complications or concerns. Our Maternity Assessment Centre runs 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.

High risk antenatal / intrapartum / postnatal care

Working on our consultant led labour ward or on our antenatal / postnatal ward as part of a high functioning multidisciplinary team. On our labour ward we have exceptional rates of one‑to‑one care in labour and this is something we are extremely proud of. Our AN/PN ward team offer an excellent service delivering the Induction of Labour pathway, Elective LSCS pathway with enhanced recovery and our Transitional Care pathway. We are proud to support our midwives in developing these services and embracing quality improvement opportunities.

Community midwifery / low risk birth

Working across our community footprint offering care to women and families close to home. This role involves on call working and supporting women who choose to birth at home or in a birth centre setting, you will need to be confident in recognising any deviations and referring to other members of the multidisciplinary team when required.

• To work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies as part of a multi‑disciplinary/multi‑agency team.
• Autonomous carer for women, their partners and families within normal midwifery, and takes the lead in providing expert knowledge and opinions within this sphere acting as a clinical role model.
• Responsible for providing continuity of carer to a delegated clinical caseload throughout the antenatal / intrapartum and postnatal period which may include women with high and low risk pregnancies, liaising as necessary with the multidisciplinary team.
• Specialises in the care of women with low risk pregnancy and labour. Plans, implements and evaluates care.
• Acknowledges the changing context of care and has the authority to recommend pathways of care to pregnant women.
• Liaises with senior medical staff when complications arise in pregnancy and labour, transferring care to obstetric (team‑based care) as appropriate. Continues to support women after referral, going on to liaise with senior midwifery and medical staff in relation to complicated obstetric cases.

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

• Supports women undergoing high risk labour.
• Takes blood samples, inserts intravenous cannula and administers intravenous drugs.
• Evaluates for and performs episiotomy when necessary, sutures episiotomies and tears.
• Assists Anaesthetist when siting epidurals and cares for women who have an epidural.
• Provides care and support to women and their families in cases of miscarriage, termination of pregnancy, intrauterine death and stillbirth.
• Recognise and takes the lead in managing emergency situations where evidence based knowledge and skills are required to deal with critical events i.e. antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum emergencies requiring immediate life support.
• Provides immediate care of the newborn including emergency resuscitation when required.
• Provide evidence‑based advice and support to all women in their chosen method of infant feeding.
• Works within the Nursing and Midwifery code of professional practice.

This advert closes on Sunday 11 Jan 2026.