Midwife with Interest in Transitional Care

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Midwife with an interest in Transitional Care. The role covers ward-based care across maternity services, with opportunities for training in Foundations in Neonatal Care and ongoing professional development.

You will work across shifts, lead in partnership with women, and contribute to high-quality, evidence-based care within a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Register Midwife status is required.
• Recognised teaching/assessor qualification is desirable.
• Training in neonatal care and related assessments is preferred.

Responsibilities

• To maintain a professional manner at all times in line with NMC Code of Conduct.
• Provide and deliver high quality maternity care across settings.
• Lead professional role in planning and evaluating care with the woman and baby.
• Participate in training, audits and service development as required.
• Promote breastfeeding, infant feeding choices and public health messages.

Skills

Teaching/ assessment skills

Leadership and motivation skills

Ability to motivate self and others

Diplomatic

Assertive and confident

Personal and professional maturity

Recognition of own limitations

Education

Register Midwife

Recognised Teaching and Assessor Qualification

Newborn Infant Physical Examination

PROMPT

Solihull Approach training

Motivational Interviewing

Job description

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

Midwife with Interest in Transitional Care

The closing date is 17 November 2026

Are you a midwife with experience or interested in working in a ward-based Transitional Care?

If so, we'd love to have you as part of the SWFT maternity team!

Over 3000 babies a year are born at South Warwickshire University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and we are proud to have been at the forefront of successful service improvements and developments.

We have an exciting opportunity for midwives with an interest or experience in Transitional Care to join our team. Our successful postnatal ward-based Transitional Care has been in operation since April 2024. If you have excellent communication, organisational and clinical skills alongside enthusiasm, self-motivation and a commitment to the provision of high-quality services then we'd love to hear from you.

In-house training will be given, following a competency framework as well as opportunity to undertake the Foundations in Neonatal Care.

We would expect that you would be able to work in all areas of Maternity Services at SWFT fulfilling a normal roster pattern, working all shifts throughout the week to provide all aspects of maternity care to mothers and babies.

As a midwife at SWFT we would anticipate that you would be able to act as a lead professional, where appropriate, to plan and evaluate care in partnership with the woman for both her and her baby referring when necessary.

Main duties of the job

To work in all areas of Maternity Services at SWFT fulfilling a normal roster pattern, working all shifts throughout the week to provide all aspects of maternity care to mothers and babies. To ensure the maintenance of high standard of midwifery care at all times. To act as a lead professional where appropriate in planning and evaluating care in partnership with the woman for both her baby and referring when necessary.

About us

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2

We appreciate you completing the survey.

Job responsibilities

Key Result Areas:

The main responsibilities and duties are:

Knowledge skills and experience required:

To maintain a professional manner at all times, developing the role of the midwife in the best interests of the profession and the client in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct and Trust Policies.

To view pregnancy and birth as a normal physiological process, able to assess and respond appropriately escalating any deviation from the norm in a timely manner.

To use research based practice

Willingness to innovate or be part of an innovation to improve practice and care

To promote informed choice and autonomy.

To provide intrapartum care in a variety in all settings: home, Midwifery Led Unit and the Obstetric Unit

To practice autonomously and cooperatively as part of a team, supporting colleagues clinically and personally.

To promote public health issues particularly breastfeeding.

To be aware of social issues and refer where appropriate.

Aptitude and openness to acquire new skills to improve the care and experience of women and their families

Competent in Neonatal life support (NLS), PROMPT, CTG, willingness to do NIPE training, antenatal education training, motivational conversation training.

Liaise appropriately with services to ensure safe and effective care is provided to women at the right place, and at the right time. Act as an advocate for women, whilst safeguarding her and her wider family and social group where appropriate.

Provide and perform accurate assessments and procedures during antenatal appointments, labour care (including supporting home birth, water birth, perineal suturing, cannulation and intravenous administration of drugs) and in the postnatal period.

Provide evidence-based education to women and the facilitate Parent Education initiatives.

Support womens choices regarding feeding their infant, whilst encouraging and promoting UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiatives.

Regularly attend practice support 1:1s

Able to drive

To act up in the absence of the Band 7.

To have acquired skills in suturing, IVs and epidural administration.

To participate in the provision of health education within the Hospital and Community.

Measurable Result areas:

To provide woman centred care and continuity of care.

Planning and implementing individualised care in partnership with the woman and the multidisciplinary team.

Provide high quality, evidence-based care and advice to women throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods in a variety of settings such as the community, hospital and womans home.

To work collaboratively with colleagues from wider health team.

Maintain confidentiality.

Works flexibly to meet the needs of women you are providing care for, which also supports the ethos of personalisation and choice of care.

Abide by legal requirements and statutory rules, relating to practice in accordance with NMC Code of Professional Conduct, Midwives Rules and Midwives Code of Practice.

Administer medications under the scope of Midwifery Exemptions/Patient Group Directives when required or appropriate.

To attend team/departmental meetings regularly and make contributions to professional and service development.

Be aware of the individual midwifes responsibility for effective use of Trusts resources

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Register Midwife
• Recognised Teaching and Assessor Qualification
• Newborn Infant Physical Examination
• PROMPT
• Solihull Approach training
• Motivational Interviewing

Experience

• Administer IV drug
• Ability to suture
• Ability to cannulate

Skills

• Teaching/ assessment skills
• Leadership and motivation skills
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Diplomatic
• Assertive and confident
• Personal and professional maturity
• Recognition of own limitations

Other job requirements

• Ability to work both on own initiative and within a team
• Flexibility to work days, nights, weekends, bank holiday and on calls
• Full driving licence

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust