Band 6 Midwife - Community | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 11 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 September 2025 |
| Location: | Bedford, MK42 9DJ |
| Company: | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7381687/418-MID1687-SJ |
Summary
The midwife has a responsibility to provide holistic woman/baby centred midwifery care; this may be leading midwifery care or working in collaboration with the multi- disciplinary team that advocates pregnancy as a normal physiological life event. The midwife will assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for the women/baby. The role will encompass taking responsibility for the management/ leadership of the ward/department/ community caseload on a shift to shift basis. To collaborate with external agencies and consumer groups.
The post holder will be required to exercise clinical judgement for the assessment of care needs, the development, the implementation and evaluation of programmes of care in partnership with a defined group of women in the ante, intra and post-natal period. They will work autonomously within departmental/Trust guidelines and professional sphere of practice, also abiding by the Midwives rules and standards (NMC 05.04)
• Provide midwifery leadership in all areas of midwifery practice, demonstrating autonomy, advocacy for women and an excellent decision making style.
• To provide midwifery care, ensuring that sound up to date advice is given to women and their families in all care settings in accordance with best practice informed by NICE and Government initiatives.
• Act as the professional lead for low risk women, promoting the normal birthing process.
• Assess and make appropriate referral of women for specialist counselling and support as appropriate, for example fetal anomaly screening, bereavement, sexual health, vulnerable and disadvantaged women; young mothers, refugees, the homeless, those living with domestic violent and those with psychological problems
• Work in collaboration with the child protection team, identifying women and their families where there are concerns with child protection, domestic violence, substance abuse and special needs.
• Support the Band 7 Team Managers in the execution of their role.
• Mandatory participation in a clinical on-call rota
• May be required to work within the inpatient areas at times to meet the service needs
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job
The Job Description and Person Specification are attached to this job, please review for the full details and responsibilities
• Promote the wellbeing and safeguarding of children and young people by implementing the Trust’s policy and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
• Assess, plan implement and evaluate care women/babies for a defined caseload, using evidence to rationalise prescribed care.
• Develop link with all care agencies to facilitate seamless approach to maternity care.
• Practice within boundaries of autonomy as described by the NMC Code 2015.
• Review practices to reduce clinical risk. Record and report any untoward incidents and take action to avoid further incidents.
• Promote health and wellbeing through practice and education of women, relatives, carers and staff
• To monitor and maintain standards of care whilst providing ante natal and post-natal care at venues for example, women’s homes, health centre, family HUB’s, the hospital.
• To provide information and advice related to health education to improve health outcomes, for example counselling prior to and support after ante and post-natal screening, smoking cessation, drug and alcohol abuse
This advert closes on Sunday 24 Aug 2025