# Community Midwife > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-midwife/d4015fe5-267d-48e5-8098-0f8491963de7 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-midwife/d4015fe5-267d-48e5-8098-0f8491963de7.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Arrowe Park Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Midwife - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, 22.5 hours per week (Includes nights on call) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-27T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-17T14:00:44.181Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Wirral/Wirral_University_Teaching_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Women_Childrens/Women_Childrens-v8142268 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8142268?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.wuth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview ** This role will be to work within the traditional Community Midwifery Team. You must be able to undertake on call duties as part of this role** The successful candidate will be autonomous practitioner, taking responsibility for the provision of care throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods for women and babies in the hospital/community setting. You will be responsible for the assessment, planning and implementation of care to both high and low risk women in your care. You will support, supervise and teach staff/students evidence based client centred care, which is of a high standard, being responsible for ensuring that all care is delivered according to Trust policies and procedures and maintaining associated records of care. Our Midwives have a passionate philosophy for promoting individualised and high standards of care and birth experiences for all women accessing our Maternity Service. The Eden Suite Birth Centre consists of five birthing rooms, two with En-suite birthing pools. In addition, a further birthing pool within the Delivery Suite provides individualised, holistic care to high-risk women along with a further eight delivery rooms. We have a stand alone community birth centre staffed by the Highfield Team, concentrating on services in the community setting and homebirths. We continue to work towards the national agenda for maternity care. Our midwifery staffing comprises of inpatient, community and continuity midwives. ### Main duties of the job - Communication and working relationships will be with team members, other teams, women and their families, and other health professionals. - Actively supports women and their families, through communicating difficult and complex information using a variety of methods to ensure effective understanding. - Responsible for supporting and counselling women who are pregnant, explaining choices they have in midwifery care. - Proactively support women who require specialist investigations to monitor the health of their baby, including the provision of antenatal screening advice and counselling. - Ensure effective communication is maintained between members of the multi-disciplinary team to enable appropriate individuals to be aware of changes to women and families plan of care. - Ensure information is conveyed to women in a timely and understanding manner using different communication methods to clarify understanding. - Plans care for women, managing workload that will include antenatal and postnatal clinics and home visiting options, home birth and births in the obstetric and midwifery led units. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached Job Description for further information regarding the Community Midwife position available at WUTH. ### 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 ### essential **Essential** - Access to form of transport. ### Personal Attributes **Essential** - Excellent clinical skills - Good interpersonal and listening skills - Demonstrates leadership skills and initiative - Excellent verbal, written and communication skills - Good record keeping and presentation skills - Flexible approach to working hours and practice - Be able to work as part of a team - Ability to deal with conflict and challenging situations ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Valid and relevant preceptorship programme completed - Experience in all areas of midwifery - Detailed knowledge of maternity IT systems ### Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training **Essential** - Registered Midwife currently on the NMC register with relevant Diploma/Degree - At least one year post registration experience **Desirable** - Mentorship qualification ## Documents - [oh risk id (pdf, 153.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10441099) - [vision values behaviours (pdf, 515.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2088) - [guidance notes for applicants (pdf, 734.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1841) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 207.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10441098) - [wuth gdpr privacy notice for applicants (pdf, 255.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2506) ## 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.