Community MidwifeNHS

Job summary

The Band 6 Community Midwife provides holistic, evidence-based care to women and their families throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period.

Working in partnership with multidisciplinary teams, the role involves assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care in line with Trust policies and NMC standards. Responsibilities include promoting informed choice, supporting healthy lifestyles, facilitating parent education, and supervising junior staff and students.

The midwife ensures continuity of care, maintains accurate records, and contributes to clinical governance through audits and risk management. Strong leadership, communication, and clinical skills are essential to deliver safe, high-quality care within community and hospital settings.

Main duties of the job

• The midwife is responsible and accountable for his/her own midwifery practice.
• To work in partnership with women and their families, GP, obstetrician and other agencies to ensure optimum care.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care of mothers and babies in accordance with the Trust's policies and guidelines.
• Strive for continuity of care and informed client choice within the limitations of the service.
• Facilitate the learning of midwifery skills through supervision, teaching an support.
• Actively promote and encourage a healthy lifestyle, advising and arranging support for women as required.
• Participate in parent information groups, facilitating preparation for childbirth and the postnatal period.

Job description

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Environmental sustainabilityClimate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.