Job overview
You will provide midwifery advice, support and care to women and their families during the preconceptual, antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods, in a range of environments, including clinics, birth centres and within the client's home.
In addition you will responsible for the provision of a full range of health, education and social care advice to women within an integrated model of care covering pre-conception, antenatal, labour, birth and postnatal periods.
Main duties of the job
Passionate about midwifery? Do you want to use all of your midwifery skills? Then Powys maternity services may well be the place for you.
Due to exciting development within the maternity service, we are looking for a motivated midwife to join our midwifery team in Ystradgynlais.
You will be joining a service with one of the highest home birth rates in Wales, a high physiological birth rate and the highest breastfeeding rate in Wales. You will be supporting women choosing to birth at one of our 6 free standing birth centres.
You will provide and coordinate antenatal and postnatal care for both midwife led care and consultant led women.
As a service, we are passionate about supporting midwives ongoing professional development and the opportunity to access an award winning training during your employment.
We would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers; but even if you don’t speak any Welsh, or want to develop your skills, don’t worry: the health board will support you with training.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
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Essential
- Ability to travel
- Ability to cover on call cover for service (team and wider area)
- Physical ability to handle equipment to meet the role of an integrated midwife within a community setting
Values
Essential
- Empathetic and reassurance skills to deal with potential highly complex and sensitive circumstances that can often be emotional and distressing
- Can demonstrate PTHB Values
Experience
Essential
- Post registration clinical experience
- Range of clinical experience
- Suturing – Able to suture without supervision
- Obstetric emergencies – competent to lead in the management of an emergency
- Homebirth – Able to attend as first midwife without supervision
- Fetal Heart Monitoring – Able to interpret fetal heart deviations from normal and call appropriate help (pinnard/sonicaid)
- Resuscitation – competent to participate as the lead in resuscitation
- Cannulation – Able to cannulate without supervision
- Venipuncture – Able to perform venipuncture competently
- Examination of the newborn – Able to undertake examination of the newborn following birth and in the postnatal period unsupervised
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential
- Normality – Able to promote, assess and deliver alternative methods to normalize care both antenatally and intrapartum
- Breastfeeding – Able to discuss and practically apply UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative Team Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
- Antenatal Screening – Under supervision able to discuss and provide information on antenatal screening tests offered and able to give details of the choices women have following a positive screening result
- Research, audit and evaluation skills to ensure a high-quality service
- Caseload Management with the skill to work as autonomous practitioner
- Ability to work as a team member
- Good networking skills
- Ability to plan, organize and clear decision making skills and prioritising
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
Desirable
- Able to discuss and provide information on antenatal screening tests offered to women in pregnancy and give the reasons why they are offered and be able to give details of the choices women have following a positive screening result
- Some ability to speak, read and/or write Welsh, or an eagerness to learn.
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Awareness of political and wider health agenda specifically Midwifery 20:20 and All Wales Normal Labour Pathway
- Post Registration education and professional updating in line with NMC fitness to practice
Desirable
- Child Protection in line with LSCB
- Homebirth
- Waterbirth
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This advert is for Midwife with Powys Teaching Health Board in Bronllys, West Wales, Wales. It is listed as a Band 6 Midwife role. The advertised salary is £40,559 - £48,841 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 30 Jul 2026.
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