Rotational Midwife | University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A large NHS Trust in the South West is seeking an experienced Band 6 Midwife to join a proactive team. You'll provide women-centred care across various units and have opportunities for extensive professional development. With a supportive environment aimed at enhancing your clinical skills, this role allows you to work in a caring and flexible setting. The Trust, recognized for excellent patient care, offers various career progression paths, including secondments to Band 7 roles.

Qualifications

• Experience in a clinical setting as a midwife.
• Ability to rotate through different maternity departments.
• Commitment to professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide women-centred care in various settings.
• Support midwives' ongoing professional development.
• Lead and manage care for women and their babies.

Skills

Leadership and management skills

Flexibility and caring attitude

Excellent clinical skills

Problem-solving and initiative

Multidisciplinary team communication

Job description

Are you an experiencedBand 6 Midwifewho would like to be a part of our flexible and dynamic team in a proud and forward thinking Trust that enthusiastically embraces innovation? If so, we welcome your application!

We provide women centred care within a number of settings to enable them to achieve their desired birthing experience.

We have a fabulous co-located Midwifery Led Unit at St Michael’s Hospital and a Midwifery Led Unit at our Weston Hospital. Here, we provide exceptional care for low risk women. In addition, we have a several well established Community Midwifery Teams that support low risk women who choose to have a home birth.

Rotational Midwives have the opportunities to rotate to posts in the Ante/Postnatal Ward, Central Delivery Suite, Midwifery Led Units, Traditional Community, Continuity of Carer Teams and our Transitional Care Unit. There is also the opportunity to work within our Antenatal Clinic, Day Assessment Unit and Fetal Medicine Unit. We are the major tertiary Fetal Medicine Unit for the South West providing highly specialist care for women and their babies.

As a service, we are passionate about supporting midwives' ongoing professional development. We have an outstanding practice development team who will support you during your supernumerary period, provide a comprehensive orientation programme, and a practice development facilitator who will work one to one with you in practice to ensure a smooth transition to our unit.

• Be able to demonstrate leadership and management skills
• Be flexible with a caring attitude, rotating throughout the maternity departments and to be a part of the on‑call service we provide.
• Have excellent and extended clinical skills
• Be able to develop clinical skills and participate in continuing their professional development.
• Have experience in solving problems and using initiative.
• Have the ability to take the lead when caring for women and their babies, identifying any deterioration from normal and escalating appropriately.
• Be able to communicate and work together in a multidisciplinary team.

As a unit we are proud to acknowledge the importance of personal development, and the support and guidance required in enabling self-confidence and belief to strive towards the next goal. We focus on providing the opportunity to gain appropriate experience to enable progression to band 7. We offer band 7 secondment posts within the unit, where you will feel supported and guided by familiar colleagues that you would have built a rapport with through your band 6 experience.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world‑leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. 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 in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

This advert closes on Sunday 14 Dec 2025