# Band 6 Midwife - Community > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-6-midwife-community/e44fcd88-af0b-467d-964b-010c5a8cf177 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-6-midwife-community/e44fcd88-af0b-467d-964b-010c5a8cf177.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Luton - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Midwife - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-11T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-28T10:22:00.624Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Bedfordshire/Bedford/Bedfordshire_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Midwifery/Midwifery-v7992727 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7992727?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.ldh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview A midwife plays a vital role as a constant, reassuring presence during one of the most significant moments in a family’s life. The role focuses on delivering holistic, woman‑ and baby‑centred care, recognising pregnancy and birth as profound and natural events. You act as the calm support and skilled professional who ensures women feel informed, supported, and empowered throughout their journey. Using your clinical expertise, you will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate personalised care across the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods. You may lead care independently or work closely with the wider multi‑disciplinary team to ensure the best outcomes for mother and baby. Leadership is central to the role. You will help ensure the smooth running of the ward, department, or community caseload, providing direction and continuity on each shift. You will also build strong partnerships with external agencies and community groups to support compassionate, joined‑up care. You will use sound clinical judgement to deliver safe, effective care within Trust guidelines and the professional standards set out in the NMC Midwives Rules and Standards. Autonomy, accountability, and advocacy are key elements of your practice. This role suits someone who wants to make a meaningful difference and who values the strength of women, the importance of choice, and truly personalised care. ### Main duties of the job - Provide midwifery leadership across all areas of practice, demonstrating autonomy, strong clinical judgement, advocacy for women, and confident decision‑making. - Deliver high‑quality midwifery care, ensuring women and their families receive accurate, up‑to‑date advice in all care settings, in line with best practice, NICE guidance, and national initiatives. - Act as the professional lead for low‑risk women, promoting and supporting the normal birthing process. - Assess and refer women appropriately for specialist counselling and support when required, including fetal anomaly screening, bereavement care, sexual health, and services for vulnerable or disadvantaged women such as young mothers, refugees, those experiencing homelessness, domestic violence, or psychological difficulties. - Work collaboratively with the child protection team to identify and support women and families where concerns exist around safeguarding, domestic violence, substance misuse, or additional needs. - Support Band 7 Team Managers in fulfilling their leadership responsibilities. - Participate in the clinical on‑call rota to provide essential support to the homebirth service. - Work flexibly across inpatient areas when required to meet service needs. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Promote the wellbeing and safeguarding of children and young people by following Trust policies, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively, and sharing information appropriately. - Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care for women and babies within a defined caseload, using evidence‑based practice to justify all care provided. - Develop strong links with partner agencies to ensure a seamless, coordinated approach to maternity care. - Work within the boundaries of professional autonomy as outlined in the NMC Code (2015). - Review clinical practices to reduce risk, ensuring all incidents are recorded, reported, and followed up with appropriate actions to prevent recurrence. - Promote health and wellbeing through education and support for women, their families, carers, and colleagues. - Monitor and maintain high standards of care when providing antenatal and postnatal services in a range of settings, including women’s homes, health centres, family hubs, and the hospital. - Provide health education and advice to improve outcomes, including counselling before and after antenatal/postnatal screening, and offering support around smoking cessation, drug use, and alcohol misuse. - The Job Description and Person Specification are attached to this job, please review for the full details and responsibilities ## Job Details A midwife plays a vital role as a constant, reassuring presence during one of the most significant moments in a family’s life. The role focuses on delivering holistic, woman‑ and baby‑centred care, recognising pregnancy and birth as profound and natural events. You act as the calm support and skilled professional who ensures women feel informed, supported, and empowered throughout their journey. Using your clinical expertise, you will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate personalised care across the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods. You may lead care independently or work closely with the wider multi‑disciplinary team to ensure the best outcomes for mother and baby. Leadership is central to the role. You will help ensure the smooth running of the ward, department, or community caseload, providing direction and continuity on each shift. You will also build strong partnerships with external agencies and community groups to support compassionate, joined‑up care. You will use sound clinical judgement to deliver safe, effective care within Trust guidelines and the professional standards set out in the NMC Midwives Rules and Standards. Autonomy, accountability, and advocacy are key elements of your practice. This role suits someone who wants to make a meaningful difference and who values the strength of women, the importance of choice, and truly personalised care. ## Job Description Provide midwifery leadership across all areas of practice, demonstrating autonomy, strong clinical judgement, advocacy for women, and confident decision‑making. Deliver high‑quality midwifery care, ensuring women and their families receive accurate, up‑to‑date advice in all care settings, in line with best practice, NICE guidance, and national initiatives. Act as the professional lead for low‑risk women, promoting and supporting the normal birthing process. Assess and refer women appropriately for specialist counselling and support when required, including fetal anomaly screening, bereavement care, sexual health, and services for vulnerable or disadvantaged women such as young mothers, refugees, those experiencing homelessness, domestic violence, or psychological difficulties. Work collaboratively with the child protection team to identify and support women and families where concerns exist around safeguarding, domestic violence, substance misuse, or additional needs. Support Band 7 Team Managers in fulfilling their leadership responsibilities. Participate in the clinical on‑call rota to provide essential support to the homebirth service. Work flexibly across inpatient areas when required to meet service needs. ## Responsibilities Promote the wellbeing and safeguarding of children and young people by following Trust policies, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively, and sharing information appropriately. Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care for women and babies within a defined caseload, using evidence‑based practice to justify all care provided. Develop strong links with partner agencies to ensure a seamless, coordinated approach to maternity care. Work within the boundaries of professional autonomy as outlined in the NMC Code (2015). Review clinical practices to reduce risk, ensuring all incidents are recorded, reported, and followed up with appropriate actions to prevent recurrence. Promote health and wellbeing through education and support for women, their families, carers, and colleagues. Monitor and maintain high standards of care when providing antenatal and postnatal services in a range of settings, including women’s homes, health centres, family hubs, and the hospital. Provide health education and advice to improve outcomes, including counselling before and after antenatal/postnatal screening, and offering support around smoking cessation, drug use, and alcohol misuse. The Job Description and Person Specification are attached to this job, please review for the full details and responsibilities ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to work effectively autonomously and as part of the MDT - Effective communicator both written and verbal - Computer literate - Demonstrate good leadership and organisation skills ### Knowledge **Essential** - Teaching /assessment skills - Organisational and negotiation skills - Working knowledge of the Public Health role of the midwife including: Child Protection, Domestic Abuse, Substance Misuse Mental Health, Healthy Weight Management - Knowledge of the screening pathways **Desirable** - Knowledge of clinical governance ### Experience **Essential** - Suitable Post-Registration experience within relevant speciality - Experience in all clinical settings, including the community setting - In depth knowledge of antenatal and postnatal pathways - Awareness of Safeguarding processes - Clinical experience in low and high risk intrapartum areas including cannulation, caring for women with epidurals, suturing **Desirable** - Homebirth experience - Participation in an on call rota - Experience in delivering parent education ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Midwife with evidence of degree qualification in Midwifery - Evidence of working as a midwife in the UK - Evidence of ongoing further professional and personal development **Desirable** - Teaching qualification/Mentorship/N97 ## Documents - [staff benefits (png, 1.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2879) - [bedford hospital site map (pdf, 2.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2871) - [staff diversity network (pdf, 140.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2866) - [jd band 6 midwife community (pdf, 256.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10276815) - [ps band 6 midwife community (pdf, 200.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10276816) - [fa - band 6 midwife community (pdf, 176.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10276817) - [information for disabled applicants (pdf, 98.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2870) - [disclosure & barring information and recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 78.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1456) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.