# Bank Midwife Band 6 > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/bank-midwife-band-6/c5b66343-1681-489c-b3a3-eb64df949fc0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/bank-midwife-band-6/c5b66343-1681-489c-b3a3-eb64df949fc0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Midwife - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £27.18 Hourly Paid - **Contract type:** Bank - **Closing date:** 2026-06-14T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-01T12:22:27.984Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Royal_Free_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Midwife/Midwife-v8048235 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8048235?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview To work as part of the Multi-professional team providing a high standard of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal midwifery care to women and their families within the integrated maternity service. To be part of the Bank Midwife team supporting excellence in midwifery care. **VISA SPONSORSHIP DOES NOT APPLY TO THIS ROLE** ### Main duties of the job The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust became a new enlarged organisation on 1 July 2014. We now consist of the Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital. We are offering exciting opportunities for newly qualified and experienced midwives to join our team as a bank midwife. We provide maternity services across a large part of North and Central London. We also have services based across the community. Joining together has meant that we have been able to expand in many areas of midwifery. This includes having 3 consultant midwives, midwifery teams leading on complex psychosocial care; we have two alongside Birth Centres and one stand-alone at the Edgware Birth Centre. Our midwives are based either within the cross-site community teams, at the Royal Free Hospital or at the Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital and Edgware. **For further information please refer to the attached JD/PS** ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To work as part of the Multi-professional team providing a high standard of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal midwifery care to women and their families within the integrated maternity service. To rotate within all clinical areas within maternity services to support professional development and maintain safe standards of midwifery care in line with service provision. Main duties – - Provide a high standard of midwifery care to mothers and babies during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period. - Take autonomous clinical decisions in an emergency to ensure safe outcomes for mother and baby - Able to work as an autonomous practitioner in all aspects of midwifery practice. ## Job Details To work as part of the Multi-professional team providing a high standard of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal midwifery care to women and their families within the integrated maternity service. To be part of the Bank Midwife team supporting excellence in midwifery care. **VISA SPONSORSHIP DOES NOT APPLY TO THIS ROLE** ## Job Description The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust became a new enlarged organisation on 1 July 2014. We now consist of the Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital. We are offering exciting opportunities for newly qualified and experienced midwives to join our team as a bank midwife. We provide maternity services across a large part of North and Central London. We also have services based across the community. Joining together has meant that we have been able to expand in many areas of midwifery. This includes having 3 consultant midwives, midwifery teams leading on complex psychosocial care; we have two alongside Birth Centres and one stand-alone at the Edgware Birth Centre. Our midwives are based either within the cross-site community teams, at the Royal Free Hospital or at the Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital and Edgware. **For further information please refer to the attached JD/PS** ## Responsibilities To work as part of the Multi-professional team providing a high standard of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal midwifery care to women and their families within the integrated maternity service. To rotate within all clinical areas within maternity services to support professional development and maintain safe standards of midwifery care in line with service provision. Main duties – Provide a high standard of midwifery care to mothers and babies during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period. Take autonomous clinical decisions in an emergency to ensure safe outcomes for mother and baby Able to work as an autonomous practitioner in all aspects of midwifery practice. ## Person Specification ### Values **Essential** - Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values ### Knowledge **Essential** - Ability to evaluate midwifery care. - Ability to relate NMC Midwives Rules, Code of Practice, The Scope of Professional Practice, Standards for the Administration of Medicines - Able to use appropriate language according to circumstances - Legible, literate, grammatically ccurate - Able to work well within a team. - Ability to use own initiative - Ability to prioritise own workload - Ability to manage junior staff - Have knowledge of the Public Health Agenda - Ability to educate parents and students - Ability to undertake all midwifery duties within the relevant clinical area. - IT literate - knowledge of Clinical Governance **Desirable** - Knowledge of current NSF framework/healthy hospitals initiative ### Experience **Essential** - Minimum introduction to IV cannulations, suturing, scrubbing in theatre, epidural top ups, resuscitation of new born **Desirable** - Previous experience working as a midwife/Band 5 grade nurse. - Working in an environment where ‘normality in midwifery’ is the main focus (MLC) unit. - Previous experience working in a community setting. ### Skills and Aptitudes **Essential** - Ability to adapt to new working practices - Ability to remain calm under pressure - Ability to deal calmly and courteously with difficult people - Adaptable and flexible approach to working within the Unit. - Flexible working hours **Desirable** - Able to meet the practical requirements of the post. i.e. cross site shift patterns ### Education & Qualifications **Essential** - NMC Part 10 register or equivalent - Experience (placement or post grad) within both the wards and delivery suite areas **Desirable** - Evidence of professional updating - Academic and/or professional/vocational training and development ## Documents - [map rfl (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2047) - [staff networks at rfl (pdf, 563.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2046) - [our sites and services (pdf, 486.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2045) - [functional requirements (pdf, 108.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10337280) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 387.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10337279) - [nursing and midwifery - benefits, about rfl, values and governing objectives (pdf, 388.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2755) ## 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.