# Integrated Midwife - Band 5/6 > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/integrated-midwife-band-56/9903a0a7-ead9-44f0-92c7-c9fbaae83282 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/integrated-midwife-band-56/9903a0a7-ead9-44f0-92c7-c9fbaae83282.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Torbay Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Midwife - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** 6 months (Fixed Term (possible extension to contract)) - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (Night working and weekend working to provide 24 hour cover) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-03T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-20T09:50:46.803Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Devon/Torquay/Torbay_South_Devon_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Midwifery/Midwifery-v8243139 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8243139?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an enthusiastic, motivated, and committed midwife ready to make a difference? We’re looking for passionate midwives to join our integrated midwifery team workforce! This is your chance to be part of Torbay’s nationally renowned and well-established integrated team midwifery model—a true leader in innovative maternity care. We are dedicated to supporting women to have safe, personalized, and empowering birth experiences. Working closely with the Devon LMS and neighbouring Maternity Units, we ensure every woman in Devon receives the highest quality care. Our fully integrated teams within the Torbay Maternity Service offer midwives the incredible opportunity to maintain and develop all of their skills in a supportive and collaborative environment. Band 5 midwives must have completed at least 6 months of a preceptee programme. Please be mindful that if you are commencing employment in a developmental capacity, you will start at the bottom of Band 5 and progress to a Band 6 once evidence of competencies and qualifications have been achieved. ### Main duties of the job - To assess the full range of care needs and develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period for women and their babies - To work autonomously within guidelines and sphere of professional practice - To act as a mentor or practice supervisor for less experienced midwives, students and other members of the multi-professional team - Work within NMC codes of practice and professional guidelines. - Lead Professional for low-risk women - Provide antenatal, intrapartum and post-natal care in a variety of settings, including home and hospital - Work collaboratively with professional colleagues to provide midwifery care to with women with complex needs - Contribute with feedback, to ensure the health and social care setting is responsive to the individual needs of women, particularly those who are disadvantaged, and where appropriate, advocate for these women - Advocate and support the rights of individual women to make informed choices about their care - Promote equality, diversity and rights - Participate in and undertake annual appraisal, identifying specific training requirements as part of service planning and continuous personal development ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification. Ability to travel efficiently around the Bay is important in order to carry out your duties. ### 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 ### Specific skills **Essential** - Excellent written and verbal communication skills - Ability to work autonomously - Perineal suturing - Ability to organise and prioritise own workload - IT skills - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills - Excellent decision-making ability ### Knowledge & Experience **Essential** - Knowledge of child protection, domestic violence, substance misuse and working with women with special needs - Ability to cope with a stressful environment with emotional women, their families/supporters and staff members **Desirable** - Community experience - Experience of home births - Parent Education training ### Qualifications and training **Essential** - Registered Midwife - Evidence of continued professional development - Completed a preceptor programme **Desirable** - Mentorship qualification - NIPE practitioner ## Documents - [integrated midwife band 5/6 (pdf, 480.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10554342) ## 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.