# Internal Opportunity - Band 6 Continuity Midwife > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/internal-opportunity-band-6-continuity-midwife/d7048261-0922-41ad-bca0-44b9245e57fd - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/internal-opportunity-band-6-continuity-midwife/d7048261-0922-41ad-bca0-44b9245e57fd.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust - **Town:** Worcester - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Midwife - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 to £48,117 a year - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part-time - **Closing date:** 2026-06-26T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-11T07:10:25.950Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9365-26-0445?employerCode=C9365 - **Application URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/application/C9365-26-0445/pre-application-questions-pause?referrer=jobadvert&ref=C9365-26-0445 - **Employer website:** https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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. ## 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - 1) Please demonstrate your knowledge and practical experience across a broad range of maternity services, including your midwifery experience within our WAHT Continuity Model - 2) Experience of mentoring junior colleagues/students **Desirable** - 1) Experience in service development or clinical governance projects ### Qualifications **Essential** - 1) BSc (Hons) Midwifery or equivalent qualification - 2) UK NMC registration as a Midwife - 3) Completion of practice supervisor or assessor training. **Desirable** - 1) NIPE Training - 2) Advanced training or certification in specialist areas ### Skills/Knowledge **Essential** - 1) Please demonstrate how, as a midwife, you ensure your practice is guided by current evidence-based practice and the importance of this. - 2) Competent in Venepuncture & Cannulation - 3) Competenct in IV Therapy - 4) Competent in Perineal Suturing **Desirable** - 1) Familiarity with maternity-specific IT systems (e.g., BadgerNet). ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - 1) Please provide examples of your flexibility, reliability, and adaptability. - 2) Please demonstrate, with examples, how you have used strong organisational and time management skills to achieve results while working collaboratively with others. **Desirable** - 1) Please provide examples that demonstrate your leadership potential and ability to influence positive change in practice. ### Other Job Requirements **Essential** - 1) Ability to undertake manual handling and movement tasks - 2) Professional appearance in line with trust uniform policy - 3) Valid UK driving license - 4) Ability to participate in the on-call rota and work flexibly (including nights and weekends to support cover of a 24/7 service) **Desirable** - 1) Willingness to undertake secondments or extended roles ### Motivation and Commitment to the Organisation **Essential** - 1) Please demonstrate your passion and long term investment within continuity of care and why you would like to work within this model of care ## Documents - [Band 6 Job Description (PDF, 356 KB)](document:2953830) - [Band 6 Person Specification (PDF, 209 KB)](document:2953829) - [DBS Applicant Costs Infomation (PDF, 154 KB)](document:2953831) ## 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.