Internal Opportunity - Band 6 Continuity Midwife

Job summary

Is making a difference what drives you most? Are you caring, compassionate and fair, treating everyone individually? Is doing the right thing important to you? Are you reliable, hardworking, and committed to excellence?

If this sounds like you, and you value the responsibility and accountability of being a midwife, we'd love to hear from you.

We are seeking an enthusiastic Continuity of Carer Midwife to join our continuity care provision.

This opportunity is open to:

• Midwives currently employed on a fixed-term contract who wish to secure a permanent position
• Midwives working in other areas of WAHT maternity services who are interested in moving into a continuity model of care

This advert is specifically for post-preceptorship Band 6 Midwives.

Band 6 Midwives: Youll work flexibly and autonomously across antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal settings (inpatient/community) with a defined caseload, ensuring seamless continuity for those in your care. You'll role model best practice, support junior staff and promote high standards across our service.

You will join a small integrated approachable team that values personalised care, teamwork and growth. Our commitment was reflected in our recent CQC inspection, where maternity services were ratedGood.

The sytle and format of interviews will be confirmed once shortlisting has been completed and candidate numbers are known.

Main duties of the job

As a dedicated midwife, your main duties will revolve around providing safe, clinically effective and individualised care to women and birthing people throughout their pregnancy journey.

This role offers the opportunity to build meaningful relationships, support positive birth experiences, and make a genuine impact on the health and wellbeing of our community. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will deliver safe, high-quality, and compassionate care.

We are committed to the national maternity agenda and also have an impressive home birth record.

Youll work flexibly across antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal settings (inpatient/community) with a defined caseload, ensuring seamless continuity for those in your care. Excellent communication, clinical confidence, and a passion for promoting choice are essential.

In return, we offer a nurturing environment, professional development opportunities, and the chance to be part of a team that truly values your skills and commitment to exceptional maternity care.

When working in one of our established teams, you will have time to complete antenatal and postnatal visits for the caseload under your care, and other times where you will be available to care for women in labour (hospital, birth centre and home).You and your team write your own rota, decide on annual leave and support each other in weekly team meetings. This allows you to gain transferrable skills such as time management, managing your own caseload and team working.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Details

• Date posted: 11 June 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year NHS Pay Band 6 (2026/2027)
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: C9365-26-0445
• Job locations: Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5 1DD, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for Band 6 Midwives to view the full details for this opportunity at Worcestershire Acute Hospital NHS Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications and skills. If there are a large amount of applications, it is vital that you also aim to evidence any desirable criteria to show case your suitability for this position.