# Midwife-led Unit and Home Birth Midwife > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/midwife-led-unit-and-home-birth-midwife/aedaad0a-8d87-4e84-9dfc-309e8598248d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/midwife-led-unit-and-home-birth-midwife/aedaad0a-8d87-4e84-9dfc-309e8598248d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Warrington Hospital - **Profession:** Midwife - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £38,682 - £46,580 Per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (Various hours available) - **Closing date:** 2025-12-03T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2025-11-03T14:33:30.444Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cheshire/Warrington/Warrington_Halton_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Midwife/Midwife-v7588032 - **Employer website:** https://northcheshireandmersey.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We have an exciting opportunity for midwives who are passionate about supporting women to birth in low-risk settings, and who can demonstrate excellence, kindness and compassion, to come and join our team of experienced midwives providing excellent low-risk care. Team Lunar midwives each care for a caseload of women who are planning home births, providing continuity of care at home throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods. They will also support women who choose to birth on The Nest, our beautiful, alongside midwife-led unit, providing intrapartum and postnatal care. Team Lunar midwives will also support our post-dates aromatherapy clinics. Team Lunar will be based on The Nest, working in a shift-model, with no current requirement to be on-call from home. The maternity team at Warrington are a friendly, welcoming team with a passion for positive change. In 2021 the team were shortlisted for an HSJ Patient Safety Award and more recently were nominated for the regional Nursing and Midwifery Award at the 2022 NHS Parliamentary Awards. In 2024 CQC have rated our Maternity Services as “Good” and as a team, Warrington & Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation trust prides itself on training and development opportunities which will be offered to the successful candidate based on their needs and chosen future career pathway. ### Main duties of the job The successful candidate will have varied post qualification midwifery practice. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills will be required as will the ability to demonstrate a passion for both continuity and for woman centred care. You will work across Warrington and Halton and will need access to your own vehicle. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Team Lunar midwives are based on The Nest, our alongside, midwife-led unit. They provide midwife-led care women on The Nest or at home, and they caseload women planning home births. For a full list of the main responsibilities for this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Completed Preceptorship Programme - Practice as an accountable midwife in an acute and primary care setting - Experience providing midwifery care in a low-risk setting **Desirable** - Experience of caseloading/continuity of care model - Experience of initiatives which develop the service - Experience attending home births ### Qualifications **Essential** - Completed and obtained RM qualification and has current live PIN on NMC register **Desirable** - Teaching & Assessing qualification - NIPE - Aromatherapy ### Skills, Knowledge and Competencies **Essential** - Must be able to practice in all areas - Evidence of understanding and insight into current issues in Midwifery and NHS - Demonstrable commitment to the provision of a high-quality safe service for all women and their families **Desirable** - Experience of delivering Parent Education - Understanding of Population Health Agenda ## Documents - [whh staff benefits (pdf, 2.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2892) - [midwife-led unit and home birth midwife job description (pdf, 528.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=9840819) ## 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.