# Community Midwife

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
- **Town:** Walsall
- **Region:** Midlands
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Midwife
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent: on calls required
- **Employment type:** 22.5 hours per week (Full time and part time positions available)
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-28T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14T11:51:45.779Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Walsall/Walsall_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Midwifery/Midwifery-v8118681
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8118681?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.walsallhealthcare.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Our community midwives promote normality and the use of alternative therapies for the benefit of all women. If you are looking for the opportunity to work innovatively, using a continuity of carer model, utilising and developing your midwifery skills within a successful community team then this may be the opportunity for you. You must be flexible, having the ability to work across a large geographical area and to participate in our on-call rota and shifts as required to support the hospital, homebirth and the midwifery led unit.

### Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for registered midwives to join our Community Midwifery Team for Walsall Healthcare Trust. You will be experienced, enthusiastic and caring and must be able to work autonomously, demonstrating excellent clinical skills to provide effective, individualised women centered care.  You will be the named midwife for a designated caseload of women, providing antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care, in the home environment and within midwife led settings, providing one to one care during labour.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Our community midwives promote normality and the use of alternative therapies for the benefit of low-risk women. If you are looking for the opportunity to work innovatively, using a continuity of carer model, utilizing and developing your midwifery skills within a successful community team then this may be the opportunity for you.

## Person Specification

### EXPERIENCE

**Essential**

- Must be able to demonstrate full-time midwifery experience (or pro-rata)
- Must have experience of mentoring students

**Desirable**

- Examination of the Newborn

### QUALIFICATIONS

**Essential**

- Must be able to demonstrate qualification as a Registered Midwife
- Must be able to demonstrate current registration with the NMC in the UK
- must have a full UK licence

### SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

**Essential**

- Must have experience of managing a caseload of women
- working within a MDT approach

**Desirable**

- Experience of caring for women at a home birth or low risk intrapartum care
- experience of working in continuity of care

## Documents

- [jd (pdf, 678.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10414631)
- [ps (pdf, 500.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10414632)
- [flexible working document (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2426)

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