Registered Midwife

North Bristol NHS Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

North Bristol NHS Trust seeks Registered Midwives to join their dynamic maternity team at Southmead Hospital. Roles available for both newly qualified and experienced midwives, offering a supportive environment with excellent benefits and a commitment to professional development.

Benefits

Fully supported preceptorship programme for newly qualified midwives

Access to the NHS Pension Scheme

Generous Holiday Entitlement starting at 27 days

Career development and training opportunities

Award winning comprehensive wellbeing provisions

Subsidised meals at hospital restaurants

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with current NMC registration required.
• Continuing professional development and teaching qualification preferred.
• Recent experience in maternity services essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care.
• Deliver babies and ensure high quality midwifery care.
• Exercise clinical judgment for care assessment and program implementation.

Skills

Advanced communication skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team

Ability to demonstrate antenatal/intra-partum/postnatal skills

Education

Registered Midwife with current live NMC registration

Evidence of continuing professional development

Teaching and assessing qualification

Job description

Main area Midwifery Grade Band 5/6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (per annum, pro rata) Job ref 339-TA-W&C-RM-0525

Site Southmead Hospital Town Bristol Salary £29,970 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata. New Entrant Midwife - Band 5 & Experienced Midwife - Band 6 Salary period Yearly Closing 30/05/2025 09:00

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Job overview

Are you a Registered Midwife looking for a new opportunity or a 3rd year Student Midwife, about to qualify? We would love to hear from you!

We can offer a robust induction package (and preceptorship package if you are newly qualified) to support you to become confident in all aspects of the role.

Our service at North Bristol Trust provide a full range of obstetric services for those who live in the catchment of North Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. Our maternity department has 5200 births each year. Our involvement in world renowned research has led to the development of PROMPT. At our last CQC inspection, we were rated as ‘good’, meaning we are performing well and meeting expectations. We are fully committed to building on this success and we encourage all staff to have a voice and share ideas and innovations.

We have a consultant led Obstetric Unit with 2 HDU rooms, 9 birthing rooms and a pool room. We also have an extensive Maternal Medicine service, including Perinatal Mental Health and Complex Care team and a Fetal Medicine service. Our antenatal ward hosts a Triage, day assessment area and inpatient ward and our postnatal ward prides itself on giving the best quality postnatal care.

You will be required to work a day/night shift pattern, to include being part of the on-call rota and candidates must have NMC registration.

Main duties of the job

As a Rotational midwife, you will be joining a team of well-established professional and compassionate midwives, doctors, maternity support workers (MSW’s) and support staff committed to providing safe, high quality and personalised care. We can offer a variety of hospital and community-based rotations to build your expertise!

Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay and here are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:

• Fully supported preceptorship programme for newly qualified midwives
• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holiday's
• Physiotherapy Direct
• Career development and training opportunities
• Award winning and comprehensive wellbeing provisions. This includes physical, psychological, lifestyle and financial wellbeing support offers.
• Subsidised meals at our hospital restaurants
• Maternity coffee shop and ‘Garden room’.
• Access to exclusive discounts, cashback and vouchers via NHS Discounts and Blue Light Card

Working for our organisation

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a full overview of the Job Description, please refer to the PDF Job Description attached as an additional document to this advert.

• Able to exercise clinical judgement for the assessment of care needs, the development, the implementation and evaluation of programmes of care in partnership with women within the practice area.

The care includes preventative measures, the detection of abnormal conditions in the mother and child, the procurement of medical assistance and the execution of emergency measures in the absence of medical help.

• Provide antenatal and postnatal care to women
• Provide intra-partum care and deliver babies
• Work autonomously within guidelines and sphere of professional practic
• With experience, to ensure delivery of high quality midwifery care by effectively coordinating and professionally leading the clinical midwifery team and support staff in the absence of the senior midwife.

Person specification

Education/ Training/ Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with current live NMC registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development (B6) or ability and willingness to undertake further training (B5)
• (B6) Teaching and assessing qualification

Work Experience

• Able to work in all areas of maternity services- antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal
• Recent experience as a registered midwife or a qualifying student who has undertaken midwifery placements
• (B6) Practicing midwife with completed preceptorship and portfolio

Knowledge/ Skills/ Abilities

• Advanced communication skills, verbal & written, to include report writing and record keeping
• Excellent interpersonal skills with patients and the multidisciplinary team
• Ability to work as part of a multi disciplinary team
• Ability to adapt and demonstrate safe antenatal/ intra-partum and postnatal skills
• (B6) Knowledge and understanding of research/ evidence based practice and it’s application to midwifery practice
• (B6) Knowledge of current developments and issues in midwifery
• (B6) Knowledge of change management and ability to provide leadership within the designated ward area.

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North Bristol NHS Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.

At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.

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