Homebirth Team Midwife

Homebirth Team Midwife

The closing date is 17 February 2026.

• Specialist midwifery care for women planning home births and birth centre births ("domino care").
• Support for women planning births outside of standard guidelines, collaborating closely with consultant midwives to ensure safety.

• Qualifications
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  At least 12 months post-registration, including recent intrapartum experience.
• Skills
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  Strong communicator; committed to delivering personalised, safe, and innovative care.
• Characteristics
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  Proactive, creative, and confident working independently and within a supportive team.

• Be part of an award-winning team
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  Our MSWs and midwives have received Royal College of Midwives national awards for excellence.
• Make a difference
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  Provide truly individualised care that supports choice—home, or birth-centre.
• Flexibility with support
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  Combine autonomy with structured on-call pay uplift and a supportive team environment.

• Lives within 30 minutes of hospital.
• Passionate about continuity of carer and personalised birth experiences.
• Exposure to recent intrapartum practice
  , confident managing complex or out-of-guideline scenarios.

• Comprehensive Midwifery Care
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  Provide care across all stages of pregnancy, intrapartum, and postnatal periods for a caseload of women.
• Promote Birth Choices
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  Actively support and facilitate homebirth, DOMINO, and birth centre care options for women.
• Collaborative Care
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  Work closely with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure safe and high-standard care for mothers and babies.
• Skill Development
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  Continuously develop and maintain midwifery skills in line with best practices.
• Role Development
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  Contribute to the development of midwifery practice and the introduction of new roles within the service.
• Drug Administration
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  Safely manage and administer medications in accordance with Trust policies and statutory regulations.

• Adhere to NMC Standards
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  Uphold the NMC Code of Conduct and work within the Trust's policies and protocols.
• Effective Communication
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  Maintain strong relationships within the midwifery team and with other healthcare professionals.
• Continuous Professional Development
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  Engage in ongoing learning and attend mandatory training to maintain and enhance clinical skills.

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work.

Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women s Hospital is one of two dedicated women s hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens 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…