Band 6 Midwife

Job overview

Are you ready to take the next step in your midwifery career? We’re excited to invite applications from Midwives who have successfully completed their preceptorship programme and are looking for a fresh, rewarding challenge.

In this role, you’ll play an integral part in delivering truly holistic, person‑centred care for women, birthing people, and their babies. Whether leading care independently or working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, you’ll champion pregnancy as a normal and transformative physiological experience. Your practice will involve assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care, ensuring every individual and family receives the highest standard of support.

As a Band 6 Midwife, you’ll also step into a leadership role, taking charge of the ward, department, community setting, or transitional care caseload on a shift‑by‑shift basis. You’ll build strong links with external agencies and consumer groups to ensure continuity, safety, and compassion are at the heart of every journey.

Teaching and professional development are key elements of this position. You’ll contribute to the growth of the team by supervising colleagues and acting as a Mentor or Assessor for midwifery students, helping to shape the next generation of safe, confident, and inspired practitioners.

Main duties of the job

Provide midwifery leadership in all areas of midwifery practice, demonstrating autonomy, advocacy for women and an excellent decision making style.

Support the clinical teams and Band 7 Team Managers in the execution of his/her role.

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.

Demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

It is an exciting time at the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital as maternity, neonatal, critical care and theatre services have recently moved into a state of the art Acute Services Block.

Through this work, the Trust will be able to increase capacity, improve sustainability and efficiency, maintain and improve quality standards and support patient-centred clinical services. Care will be delivered in modern, uplifting and fit for purpose environments, that will also enhance the patient and staff experience.

The maternity services that have moved to the new clinical buildings are the Antenatal Ward, Delivery Suite and Obstetric Theatres, Maternity Triage, Midwifery Led Birthing Unit, Postnatal ward, Day Assessment Unit, Bereavement Suites and Transitional Care.

Benefits for staff:

Modern and spacious facilities for our pregnant women / birthing people, their families and our staff

Dedicated courtyard for to support mobilisation in labour

Separate courtyard for staff to use

Co-designed areas with service user and stakeholder input which is highly valued

The midwife has a responsibility to provide holistic woman/birthing people/baby centred midwifery care; this maybe 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/birthing people/baby. The role will encompass taking responsibility for the management/ leadership of the ward/department/ community caseload on a shift-by-shift basis. To collaborate with external agencies and consumer groups.

The Midwife (Band 6) participates in the supervision and teaching of staff as well as being a Mentor/Assessor for midwifery students.

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/birthing people/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/birthing people, relatives, carers and staff

Support student midwives and other healthcare professional as a mentors and sign off mentors and assessors to ensure that the hospital/community midwifery experience meets the required practical and educational standards.

Facilitate parenting education to women/birthing people during the antenatal /postnatal period.

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.