# NEST Midwife > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/nest-midwife/03eaf20f-5420-49ef-b3c7-7dd662144b4f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/nest-midwife/03eaf20f-5420-49ef-b3c7-7dd662144b4f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Southampton - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Midwife - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 to £48,117 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-15T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-01T15:43:14.479Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8125555 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8125555?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.uhs.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us. Please see below for detailed job description of the role. ### Main duties of the job Are you an experienced and compassionate midwife committed to reducing health inequalities and improving outcomes for women, birthing people, babies and families? University Hospital Southampton is seeking enthusiastic Band 6 Midwives to join our dedicated Continuity of Carer Teams, working within a caseloading model to support some of our most vulnerable service users. As a Continuity Midwife, you will provide personalised care throughout pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period. Working as part of a supportive team, you will develop meaningful partnerships with women, birthing people and families, ensuring they receive consistent, high-quality care from a midwife who knows and understands their individual needs. Through a case -loading model, you will play a pivotal role in improving outcomes, increasing engagement with maternity services, and delivering equitable, trauma-informed care across the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period. Our continuity teams focus on supporting families who experience some of the greatest health inequalities, including those from global majority communities, living in areas of high social deprivation and those requiring additional support due to complex social, emotional or healthcare needs, ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Working in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team, safeguarding and perinatal mental health services and external stakeholders, you will seek to make a difference to the lives of parents and babies. Training, a structured supernumerary period, excellent team support and opportunities for future development are provided to enhance your skills and knowledge across the pregnancy continuum in all birth settings. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Manage your own caseload of birthing people providing antenatal care. - Be a part of a team caseload roster working on-calls to provide labour care in all areas of maternity care including labour ward, low risk birth centres and homebirths. - Be an autonomous practitioner managing your own workload and diary. - Work within a MDT frequently, attend safeguarding, Perinatal Mental Health and other multi-disciplinary team meetings. - Support those birthing people who require extra support in the form of individualised care and support plans. - Provide enhanced postnatal care to families and newborns including parent education. - You will work within a small team that allows you to build a close rapport and good working relationship with colleagues. - You will be working in a continuity model of care that strives to improve outcomes for birthing people and families from disadvantaged backgrounds and those from the Global Majority specific ethnicities with additional risk factors. - You will build a variation of skills and build personal confidence in all areas of midwifery. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - Dedicated and passionate individuals wanting to provide the gold standard midwifery care. - A midwife wanting to provide individualised, compassionate care to birthing people and their families throughout the perinatal period. - A midwife with clearly defined experience looking after birthing people who are vulnerable or require additional support. - A midwife with great communication and interpersonal skills to lead their caseload, work as a team and liaise with other organisations and health professionals as necessary. - An individual who is driven, innovative and committed to service improvement and embracing change. - A midwife that demonstrates a commitment to personal and service development. - This model of working requires you to have a driving licence and have access to a car as this role dictates a regular on call commitment. ## Job Details University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us. Please see below for detailed job description of the role. ## Job Description Are you an experienced and compassionate midwife committed to reducing health inequalities and improving outcomes for women, birthing people, babies and families? University Hospital Southampton is seeking enthusiastic Band 6 Midwives to join our dedicated Continuity of Carer Teams, working within a caseloading model to support some of our most vulnerable service users. As a Continuity Midwife, you will provide personalised care throughout pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period. Working as part of a supportive team, you will develop meaningful partnerships with women, birthing people and families, ensuring they receive consistent, high-quality care from a midwife who knows and understands their individual needs. Through a case -loading model, you will play a pivotal role in improving outcomes, increasing engagement with maternity services, and delivering equitable, trauma-informed care across the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period. Our continuity teams focus on supporting families who experience some of the greatest health inequalities, including those from global majority communities, living in areas of high social deprivation and those requiring additional support due to complex social, emotional or healthcare needs, ## Responsibilities Working in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team, safeguarding and perinatal mental health services and external stakeholders, you will seek to make a difference to the lives of parents and babies. Training, a structured supernumerary period, excellent team support and opportunities for future development are provided to enhance your skills and knowledge across the pregnancy continuum in all birth settings. WHAT YOU’LL DO Manage your own caseload of birthing people providing antenatal care. - Be a part of a team caseload roster working on-calls to provide labour care in all areas of maternity care including labour ward, low risk birth centres and homebirths. - Be an autonomous practitioner managing your own workload and diary. - Work within a MDT frequently, attend safeguarding, Perinatal Mental Health and other multi-disciplinary team meetings. - Support those birthing people who require extra support in the form of individualised care and support plans. - Provide enhanced postnatal care to families and newborns including parent education. - You will work within a small team that allows you to build a close rapport and good working relationship with colleagues. - You will be working in a continuity model of care that strives to improve outcomes for birthing people and families from disadvantaged backgrounds and those from the Global Majority specific ethnicities with additional risk factors. - You will build a variation of skills and build personal confidence in all areas of midwifery. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - Dedicated and passionate individuals wanting to provide the gold standard midwifery care. - A midwife wanting to provide individualised, compassionate care to birthing people and their families throughout the perinatal period. - A midwife with clearly defined experience looking after birthing people who are vulnerable or require additional support. - A midwife with great communication and interpersonal skills to lead their caseload, work as a team and liaise with other organisations and health professionals as necessary. - An individual who is driven, innovative and committed to service improvement and embracing change. - A midwife that demonstrates a commitment to personal and service development. - This model of working requires you to have a driving licence and have access to a car as this role dictates a regular on call commitment. ## Person Specification ### Trust Values and Behaviours **Essential** - Patients First - Always Improving - Working Together ### Qualifications, knowledge and experience **Essential** - Registered midwife on relevant part of the NMC Register - Diploma or degree in midwifery - Completion of preceptorship - Competent clinical skills and knowledge across all areas of midwifery practice **Desirable** - Physical Examination of the Newborn (NIPE) qualification - Recognised teaching / mentorship qualification - Professional Midwifery Advocate (Supervisor of Midwives - Case loading experience - High dependency experience - Shift leading experience ## Documents - [job description and person spec (docx, 144.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10422260) ## 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.