Band 6 Midwife

Job overview

Kingston Hospital is looking for caring, enthusiastic, and talented midwives to join our team. We have opportunities for senior midwives (Band 6) to join our Maternity Team.

Kingston Maternity is a friendly, welcoming and supportive unit, and a popular choice for our local population, caring for around 5200 birthing people per annum. We are proud to support a full range of birth options including our established birth centre and home birth teams. Our service is funded to a ratio of 1 midwife to 22.3 women, enabling high quality, midwifery focused care to be provided. The birth centre team are skilled in aromatherapy, and biomechanics and the rooms have birthing couches and pools. We promote a philosophy of holistic, woman-centred care in all birthing areas.

Main duties of the job

Maintain a high standard of woman focused care in accordance with Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures across all clinical areas as required.

Provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of maternity care for women ensuring accurate documentation is kept.

Maintain a safe and clean working environment.

Communicate with women and their partners to ensure they have access to appropriate information.

Promote and maintain positive relationships between all staff involved in the care of the woman.

Act in accordance with the Nursing and midwifery Council Code of Conduct

Undertake duties on different wards/departments as and when required by service demands.

Education and Training

Kingston is proud of its strong multi-disciplinary (MDT) culture. We provide a well evaluated, in-house MDT programme and staff have the opportunity to attend external study days or enrol for academic modules at our local higher education institutes.

If you are a passionate midwife with excellent communication skills and a drive to provide high quality care to women please apply to join our multi professional maternity team.

This role requires candidates to work Nights, weekends, Bank Holidays and other unsocial hours.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide woman and babies with high quality, safe midwifery care during childbirth. The care will be evidence based and holistic in meeting women’s needs in a variety of practice settings.

"Our mission is to create an anti-racist, supportive, and inclusive environment where every team member feels safe, valued, and empowered. We are dedicated to dismantling barriers through a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination, addressing and challenging racism to foster a culture of accountability and respect. Through collaboration and compassionate leadership, we strive to create a safe and equitable space that positively impacts the wellbeing and development of our team, and the communities we serve."

Our Aim: Diversity should be celebrated and acknowledged in all aspects of our work. We will achieve this by promoting continuous learning, encouraging open dialogue, and providing resources for personal and professional growth. By recognising and celebrating each other’s cultural differences, we will cultivate mutual respect and understanding.

Please see the job description and person specification form for more details:

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.