Triage Midwife

Job overview

Are you a Band 6 Midwife looking for an exciting change?

We are looking for experienced midwives to join our expanding maternity family. We are fortunate to be able to offer new and exciting opportunities within our Triage team and it is a fantastic time to be a part of this new journey here with us at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. Provision of seamless care and wellbeing for all women and birthing people, is at the forefront of our practice. Our midwives strive to provide holistic care for all and pride ourselves on expertise, knowledge and the delivery of evidence based, personalised midwifery care.

As a Band 6 Midwife at Birmingham Women’s Hospital you will have the option to be part of a flexible rotation pattern working in Maternity Triage, it can involve a rotation to Delivery Suite and/or include our inpatient wards if requested too. The amount of time in each area can be tailored to you and dependant on service.

Please ensure that you meet the requirements of the job description. We are unable to support applications if you do not have relevant NMC pin. Please do not apply if you have not completed this already.

Main duties of the job

Providing clinical care within the maternity unit as a Band 6 Midwife. Please see job description and personal specification for further detail.

Why should you come and join us at Birmingham Women’s Hospital

Opportunities to gain further development/qualifications and career progression e.g. NIPE Qualification, Management Matters, Leadership and Management, Aromatherapy etc.

A flexible working approach – for example, we can offer full or part time hours with a supportive flexible working policy.

Staff improvement huddles – as a midwife with us you will have a key involvement in continuous service improvement initiatives and driving changes within the department.

Multi-disciplinary team working.

Professional Midwifery Advocates (PMAs) who provide expert clinical supervision, support and guidance when needed.

Special interest groups – we have team members supporting specifically with safeguarding, audit, student mentorship, infant feeding, infection control, equality and diversity and more.

Clinical support  24/7 from our Clinical Midwifery Educator team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

UK NMC PIN and post registration experience is essential for this post.