Registered Midwife

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust; West of England; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Holiday Entitlement (27+ days)

Subsidised meals at hospital

Wellbeing provisions

Career development and training

Preceptorship programme

Discounts via NHS Discounts and Blue L

Job summary

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Rotational Midwife to join a dedicated team delivering high-quality maternity care in the Bristol region. You will participate in a variety of hospital and community rotations, ensuring safe, evidence-based practice and excellent patient experience.

We welcome applicants who hold an NMC registration, with a commitment to ongoing professional development and the NHS values. A robust induction and preceptorship awaits the successful candidate.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with current live NMC registration.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Evidence of a completed preceptorship programme.

Responsibilities

• Provide antenatal and postnatal care to women.
• Provide intra-partum care and deliver babies.
• Participate in preceptorship and teaching.
• Lead the clinical midwifery team in the absence of the senior midwife.
• Work across multiple hospital and community rotations to build expertise.

Skills

Clinical judgement

Antenatal care

Intrapartum care

Postnatal care

Team leadership

Education

Registered Midwife with NMC registration

Tools

Trac

ESR HR system

Job description

North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) have merged as of 1st July 2026 to become Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. This creates an exciting future that brings together the best of both organisations. As a single, strong and sustainable organisation, we will not only be able to deliver better outcomes for our patients and fairer care for our population, but it will also provide greater opportunities for our people.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.

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Job Overview

Are you a Registered Midwife looking for a new opportunity? Do you have experience of working as a Midwife in the UK for at least 12 months and have you completed your preceptorship programme?

We would love to hear from you! We can offer a robust induction package to support you to become confident in all aspects of the role.

As part of the Bristol NHS foundation Trust, our service at Southmead 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!

Drivers licence and access to a car essential for Community-based rotation

Benefits

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

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust employs over 25,000 staff.

12,000 staff provide 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.

Our 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 under-represented 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
• Participate in developmental activities/ preceptorship
• 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

Essential criteria

• Registered Midwife with current live NMC registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Evidence of a completed preceptorship programme

Work Experience

Essential criteria

• Practicing midwife with completed preceptorship and portfolio
• Able to work in all areas of maternity services- antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal
• Recent experience as a registered midwife within the NHS or hospital setting

Knowledge/ Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to adapt and demonstrate safe antenatal/ intra-partum and postnatal skills
• Knowledge and understanding of research/ evidence based practice and its application to midwifery practice.
• Knowledge of current developments and issues in midwifery
• Knowledge of change management and ability to provide leadership within the designated ward area.

We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.

• As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
• The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
• BFT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
• To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.
• If you require sponsorship for a visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check to ensure you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
• By applying for this post, you are agreeing to Bristol NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Important

Please note that if you apply for a position with this Trust, you may be contacted via Trac or via email. This includes invites for job interviews. We therefore recommend that you regularly check your Trac account and email accounts. We may also contact you by texting the mobile number, if provided, on the application form.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

As a guide interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.

When providing employment reference details, please provide correct work-related email addresses so references can be sought promptly when we are looking to progress your application. Your referee must all be known to you in a line manager or professional lead capacity.