Registered Midwife
| Posting date: | 18 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £20.15 to £32.24 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £20.15 - £32.24 an hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 October 2025 |
| Location: | Barnstaple, EX31 4JB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | M0042-25-1269 |
Summary
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 you performing the above