Community Birth Team Midwife, Band 6
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the county’s largest employer, we are proud to provide high-quality acute, elective, and specialist services to more than 650,000 people across our county. Our care is delivered across Gloucestershire Royal, Cheltenham General and Stroud Maternity Hospital.
With over 9,000 employees representing more than 95 nationalities, bringing together a mix of cultures and experiences to the care that we deliver. Whether you’re beginning your NHS journey or looking to take the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing heavily in innovation, research, and transformation, with more than 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our hospitals.
We take pride in working as one team, driven by a shared ambition to grow, develop, and continually improve. Every contribution is valued and by combining our collective strengths, we support not only our diverse communities but one another. You can expect a warm, supportive culture and colleagues who are passionate about teamwork, professional development and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring and leadership opportunities to help you progress in your career.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from a comprehensive package that includes flexible working opportunities, generous annual leave, the NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, local discounts, access to on-site nurseries, reduced public transport costs, reward and recognition schemes and a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
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Job overview
We are inviting internal applications from experienced midwives who would like to be part of our new Community Birth Team and help shape the service from the very beginning. This is an exciting opportunity to become one of our trailblazers. Midwives who will help establish the team, develop how we work together and influence the culture and ways of working as the service grows. The Community Birth Team has been designed with midwives and staff involvement at the beginning of its development. We have worked hard to develop a flexible staffing and on call model that supports work life balance and recognise the competing priorities that staff have outside of work.
We are particularly keen to hear from experienced midwives who are passionate about supporting women to birth in their chosen setting and who want to play an active role in creating something new.
Joining at this stage means you will have a genuine opportunity to influence how the team develops. We are looking for enthusiastic, adaptable and self aware midwives who want to contribute to creating a supportive, psychologically safe and clinically excellent team. If you want to be part of creating something new, have your voice heard and help shape the future of community birth in Gloucestershire, we would love to hear from you.
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You will provide woman centred antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care, with a particular focus on supporting women choosing to birth at home or within a stand alone midwifery led setting. You will work autonomously within the community, promote physiological birth and informed choice, support community birth and therefore recognise and respond to changes in clinical condition, and confidently manage emergencies and transfers when required. You will participate in the team's birth availability and on call model, work across community and birth settings, contribute to continuity of care and support the development of safe, evidence based ways of working.
You will bring excellent communication, critical-thinking and decision-making skills, working confidently as an autonomous practitioner while contributing positively within the multidisciplinary team. Applicants should be adaptable, organised and able to thrive in a dynamic environment, with a proactive approach to maintaining professional development and promoting best practice
Being an early member of the team will also bring an expectation that you will be actively involved in shaping and developing the service. We are looking for midwives who are open to change, willing to learn together and prepared to have constructive conversations about what works well and what we can improve.
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Why Gloucestershire Hospitals
We take pride in placing people at the centre of everything we do, working together as a united team. Driven by a shared ambition to continually grow, develop, and learn, we recognise and value every contribution. By combining our experience and skills, we not only support our vibrant, diverse communities, but also support one another.
With a team of over 9,000 employees, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire and rank among the top 10 largest Trusts in the South West region. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from an excellent package that includes exclusive benefits, flexible working opportunities and the chance to gain valuable experience in one or both of our innovative hospitals.
As well as generous annual leave allowance, you will have access to the excellent NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, discounts at local shops and restaurants, access to two on-site nurseries, discounted public transport, reward and recognition and a range of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide to the local population evidence-based women-centred midwifery care and be accountable for the overall provision of excellent care. To hold current NMC registration as a Midwife, working within the NMC Code of Professional Standards (2015).
To be a competent midwife, working flexibly within the Midwifery Service and be confident working as part of a multidisciplinary team, providing high-quality antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care within our integrated maternity service.
To provide evidence-based, woman-centred midwifery care within the Community Birth Team, with a primary focus on delivering safe, personalised intrapartum care in homebirth settings and alongside midwifery-led birth units.
The post holder will promote physiological birth, continuity of care, informed choice and positive birth experiences whilst ensuring timely recognition and escalation of complications.
Working autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, the post holder will provide antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care across community and birth setting pathways, supporting women and families with varying levels of complexity.
The role requires confidence in managing labour and birth in community environments, responding effectively to obstetric and neonatal emergencies, and facilitating safe transfers when required.
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Significant experience supporting physiological labour and birth in both home and birth unit settings.
- Knowledge of national maternity policy, strong understanding of antenatal and postnatal pathways and evidence-based practice relating to community intrapartum care.
- Confidence in autonomous decision-making and risk assessment when working in community environments.
- Competence in recognising and managing obstetric and neonatal emergencies in homebirth and birth unit settings, including initiating emergency transfer processes.
- Excellent communication and partnership-working skills that support informed choice and shared decision-making.
- Commitment to promoting normality, continuity, safeguarding, public health and personalised care.
- Ability to work flexibly within an on-call service and respond effectively to the unpredictable nature of intrapartum care provision.
- Experience of collaborating with ambulance services, obstetric teams, neonatal services and wider multidisciplinary partners to ensure seamless and safe care.
See Job description for detailed list of main duties and responsibilities.
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