# Midwife - Core Triage Team > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/midwife-core-triage-team/1816568d-8ba0-48d5-8c0c-9fd6a5d51cdd - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/midwife-core-triage-team/1816568d-8ba0-48d5-8c0c-9fd6a5d51cdd.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust - **Town:** West Bromwich - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Midwife - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata/per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-15T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-01T12:22:17.313Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Smethwick/Sandwell_West_Birmingham_NHS_Trust/Midwifery/Midwifery-v8090240 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8090240?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.swbh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Do you enjoy working autonomously? Would your ideal job be to be the first point of contact for women coming into the unit? Do you enjoy assessing different situations and referring to the correct department or giving advice? Do you enjoy variety in your job? If so, we are looking for an experienced Midwife to complement our existing team of Hospital Based Triage Midwives. Our Triage department is the first point of call for all women coming or calling into the unit. We are looking for a dynamic, inspirational midwife to transfer their existing skills and interests to our unit. Midwives that join our triage team are based in triage but may be required to be redeployed very occasionally to the delivery suite. We have level 2 Baby friendly accreditation and rated “GOOD” at the last CQC inspection in July 2021. As a trust, we care for approximately 6000 births every year and cover a very diverse population. This is an exciting opportunity for midwives, who are passionate about making a difference to join our team of highly skilled midwives in maternity. We want to help you develop and enhance your skills and maximise your potential in all aspects of midwifery. We actively encourage staff development and have a fantastic clinical education team to provide our in house, multidisciplinary professional development training. We have excellent links with local universities for post registration development. ### Main duties of the job Our maternity unit includes a Consultant Led Obstetric Unit – consisting of high risk labour and birth rooms (including one fixed birth pool room), High Dependency Care beds, 2 obstetric theatres and recovery areas, bereavement suite and maternity triage area. Our newly opened Induction of Labour suite caters for all women attending for inpatient induction of labour and includes facilities for complementary therapies including reflexology. We also have a 21 bedded postnatal ward and 14 bedded antenatal / transitional care ward. The Serenity Midwife Led Unit, our award winning alongside birth centre, has five birth rooms and a dedicated assessment area to support 1200 births per year. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails ## Job Details Do you enjoy working autonomously? Would your ideal job be to be the first point of contact for women coming into the unit? Do you enjoy assessing different situations and referring to the correct department or giving advice? Do you enjoy variety in your job? If so, we are looking for an experienced Midwife to complement our existing team of Hospital Based Triage Midwives. Our Triage department is the first point of call for all women coming or calling into the unit. We are looking for a dynamic, inspirational midwife to transfer their existing skills and interests to our unit. Midwives that join our triage team are based in triage but may be required to be redeployed very occasionally to the delivery suite. We have level 2 Baby friendly accreditation and rated “GOOD” at the last CQC inspection in July 2021. As a trust, we care for approximately 6000 births every year and cover a very diverse population. This is an exciting opportunity for midwives, who are passionate about making a difference to join our team of highly skilled midwives in maternity. We want to help you develop and enhance your skills and maximise your potential in all aspects of midwifery. We actively encourage staff development and have a fantastic clinical education team to provide our in house, multidisciplinary professional development training. We have excellent links with local universities for post registration development. ## Job Description Our maternity unit includes a Consultant Led Obstetric Unit – consisting of high risk labour and birth rooms (including one fixed birth pool room), High Dependency Care beds, 2 obstetric theatres and recovery areas, bereavement suite and maternity triage area. Our newly opened Induction of Labour suite caters for all women attending for inpatient induction of labour and includes facilities for complementary therapies including reflexology. We also have a 21 bedded postnatal ward and 14 bedded antenatal / transitional care ward. The Serenity Midwife Led Unit, our award winning alongside birth centre, has five birth rooms and a dedicated assessment area to support 1200 births per year. ## Responsibilities Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Post registration in continuous clinical practice - Successfully completed a preceptorship programme - Evidence of working in all areas of midwifery ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Midwife on part 2 of the NMC professional register - Degree/diploma relevant to speciality - Mentor/assessor training or willing to work towards **Desirable** - NIPE Qualification ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 200.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10383464) - [person specification (pdf, 240.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10383465) - [candidate briefing pack (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2982) - [swb reward & recognition guide (pdf, 704.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2604) - [flexible working document – healthier futures (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2437) ## 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.