# Community Midwife - Peterborough

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Peterborough City Hospital; Hinchingbrooke Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Midwife
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro-rata
- **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term until 5th October 2027)
- **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, 26 hours per week (Weekend and On Call Commitments)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-15T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01T11:32:25.080Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Peterborough_Huntingdon/North_West_Anglia_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Midwifery/Midwifery-v8157388
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8157388?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.nwangliaft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are seeking Midwives with a passion for working in the Community setting,

- Do you want to be a midwife that people remember?
- Would you like the privilege of supporting people through their pregnancy journey to birth and early parent hood?

We pride ourselves on providing, holistic, evidence based care for the 7000 families we work with each year over the large geographical area covered by the trust and support our community staff to work in environments that best suit their skill set from the inner city to rural areas.

We are delighted to be able to offer a choice of birth environments and are able to support birthing people to deliver their babies where they wish, at home, in a midwifery led unit or in hospital.

This role includes an on call commitment to support our homebirth service for which we will provide all the training and support you need.

We want to invest in your professional development and there are multiple opportunities to support you with this.

If you like the idea of working within a dynamic, friendly, supportive team who all share a vision of gold standard care, come and join us.

### Main duties of the job

Providing evidence based antenatal and postnatal care within the community setting, following local and national guidance.

Having a good knowledge of safeguarding and working within a multidisciplinary team.

Supporting women with choice to birth at home.

Providing education and support for pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period within a varied framework ie. face to face, sign posting to internet based support and external agencies where appropriate.

Team working including a pro rata on call commitment.

Managing a caseload of birthing people and their families, taking responsibility for all aspects of their care, referring appropriately and working towards a model of continuity of care as outlined in Better Births (2016).

*Please Note the advert may close sooner than the date advertised due to levels of interest, closing of the advert will happen with no notice*

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description which gives full details of the role. Alternatively call to arrange an informal visit to meet the team.

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Communicating effectively with women, staff and other agencies
- Facilitate effective team working
- Demonstrate an ability to apply research to practice and to support changes in practice as a result of clinical audit
- Ability to practice within the scope of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct

**Desirable**

- Evidence and understanding of safeguarding processes and referral to multidisciplinary team

### Key Skills

**Essential**

- Ability to write reports, guidelines, etc
- Excellent record keeping skills
- Ability to develop self and others to use evidence based practice

### Education and Qualification

**Essential**

- Registered Midwife
- Evidence of continuing professional development

**Desirable**

- Relevant Degree or evidence of further study and experience to the equivalent
- Examination of the Newborn
- Sign Off Mentor

## Documents

- [staff benefits (pdf, 576.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2886)
- [living our values (pdf, 260.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1865)
- [we are team nwangliaft (pdf, 8.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2745)
- [community midwife - jd (pdf, 240.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10457801)
- [community midwife - ps (pdf, 1000.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10457802)
- [information for candidates (pdf, 5.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2788)

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