Bank Band 6 Midwife

Main area Midwifery Grade NHS AfC:
Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Flexible working - 0 hours per week (Long day and long nights) Job
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07253-EH

Site Luton and Dunstable NHS Trust, Town Luton Salary £39,959 - £48,117 paid at hourly rate £19.78 ph Salary period Yearly Closing 13/10/2026 23:59

We are excited to invite applications from Midwives who have successfully completed their preceptorship programme and are looking for a fresh, rewarding challenge on our Bank register.

In this role, you’ll play an integral part in delivering truly holistic, person-centred care for women, birthing people, and their babies. Whether leading care independently or working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, you’ll champion pregnancy as a normal and transformative physiological experience. Your practice will involve assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care, ensuring every individual and family receives the highest standard of support.

Teaching and professional development are key elements of this position. You’ll contribute to the growth of the team by supervising colleagues and acting as a Mentor or Assessor for midwifery students, helping to shape the next generation of safe, confident, and inspired practitioners.

Provide midwifery leadership in all areas of midwifery practice, demonstrating autonomy, advocacy for women and an excellent decision making style.

Support the clinical teams and Band 7 Team Managers in the execution of his/her role.

To provide midwifery care, ensuring that sound up to date advice is given to women and their families in all care settings in accordance with best practice informed by NICE and Government initiatives.

Demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff.

As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job

It is an exciting time at the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital as maternity, neonatal, critical care and theatre services have recently moved into a state of the art Acute Services Block.

Through this work, the Trust will be able to increase capacity, improve sustainability and efficiency, maintain and improve quality standards and support patient-centred clinical services. Care will be…