Band 6 Midwife

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 19 February 2026

Are you ready to take the next step in your midwifery career? We're excited to invite applications from Midwives who have completed their preceptorship programme and are looking for a fresh, rewarding challenge.

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.

As a Band 6 Midwife, you'll also step into a leadership role, taking charge of the ward, department, community setting, or transitional care caseload on a shift-by-shift basis. You'll build strong links with external agencies and consumer groups to ensure continuity, safety, and compassion are at the heart of every journey.

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 delivered in modern, uplifting and fit for purpose environments, that will also enhance the patient and staff experience.

The maternity services that will be moving to the new clinical buildings are antenatal ward, antenatal services, delivery suit and obstetric theatres, postnatal ward, day assessment unit, triage unit, bereavement suites and transitional care.

• Modern and spacious facilities for our pregnant women / birthing people, their families and our staff
• Dedicated courtyard for to support mobilisation in labour
• Separate courtyard for staff to use
• Co-designed areas with service user and stakeholder input which is highly valued

The midwife has a responsibility to provide holistic woman/birthing people/baby centred midwifery care; this maybe leading midwifery care or working in collaboration with the multi- disciplinary team that advocates pregnancy as a normal physiological life event. The midwife will assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for the women/birthing people/baby. The role will encompass taking responsibility for the management/ leadership of the ward/department/ community caseload on a shift-by-shift basis.

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