Registered Midwife

NHS; Exeter; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK seeks a dedicated midwife to provide essential care and support to expectant mothers. You'll assess needs, deliver antenatal care, and identify high-risk pregnancies while ensuring a healthy work-life balance through flexible shifts. A minimum of 12 months relevant experience is required. Join us in making a meaningful impact on the lives of mothers and babies.

Benefits

Flexible shifts

Access to Learning & Development opportunities

Wellbeing resources

Qualifications

• A minimum of 12 months paid experience as a Midwife within the last 2 years.
• Comply with NMC Professional Registration and keep up to date with current nursing practices.

Responsibilities

• Assessing the needs of women, partners, families, and carers.
• Plan, deliver and evaluate standards of evidence-based midwifery care.
• Providing full antenatal care, including parenting classes, clinical examinations, and screening.
• Identifying high-risk pregnancies.

Skills

Midwifery care

Clinical examinations

Antenatal care

Risk assessment

Job description

The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust. Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon.

Main duties of the job

What you'll be responsible for:

• Assessing the needs of women, partners, families and carers
• Plan, deliver and evaluate standards of evidence-based midwifery care
• Providing full antenatal care, including parenting classes, clinical examinations and screening
• Identifying high-risk pregnancies
• The role will involve, but is not limited to, performing the above

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Job responsibilities

Why might this job interest you?

Being a midwife in the NHS is a profoundly rewarding career that revolves around providing essential care and support to expectant mothers and their families throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period. Midwives build strong relationships with women and their families, guiding them through the journey of pregnancy with empathy and compassion. The flexibility in scheduling enables midwives to manage their work-life balance effectively, ensuring they can deliver high-quality, personalised care while meeting their own needs and commitments. Being a midwife is not just a profession but a calling to make a meaningful impact on the lives of mothers and babies, fostering health and well-being from the very beginning.

What you can add:

• Assessing the needs of women, partners, families, and carers
• Plan, deliver and evaluate standards of evidence-based midwifery care
• Providing full antenatal care, including parenting classes, clinical examinations and screening
• Identifying high-risk pregnancies

The role will involve, but not be limited to, performing the above

Person Specification

Qualifications

• A minimum of 12 months paid experience as a Midwife within the last 2 years
• Comply with NMC Professional Registration and keep up to date with current nursing practices

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.