Community Midwife

NHS; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 31,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the East Midlands is seeking a passionate Community Midwife. This role offers the chance to provide antenatal and postnatal care as part of a dedicated team. The successful candidate will require a valid UK driving licence and midwifery qualifications. Opportunities for flexible working arrangements are available, along with professional development. This role involves on-call duties, and applicants should be adept at caring for women in low-risk settings. Closing date for applications is January 13, 2026.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Qualifications

• Broad range of midwifery experience since qualification.
• Experience in working within Community Maternity services.
• Experience in caring for women in low‑risk settings including homebirth and waterbirths.

Responsibilities

• Providing antenatal and postnatal care.
• Assessing and planning care for women in midwifery.
• Participating in a 24-hour homebirth service.

Skills

Registered Midwife

Current UK driving licence

Education

Evidence of continuing professional development

Teaching & Assessing/ENB997/SLAIP

Job description

Community Midwife

The closing date is 13 January 2026

Are you a passionate and dedicated Registered Midwife looking for an exciting new challenge? We invite you to join our progressive and compassionate Maternity Services team at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB). We currently have Band 6 Midwife positions available across our Community Midwifery Service in Derbyshire.

About Us

Our Maternity Services are designed with the woman, baby, and family at the heart of everything we do. At UHDB we birth 700 babies across both sites and with our Homebirth Service per month, providing high‑quality, personalised care to a diverse population with varying medical and social needs. You will have the opportunity to work alongside a highly skilled team of Specialist Midwives, Consultant Midwives, and the wider Multidisciplinary team, gaining invaluable experience in supporting women through normal pregnancies, physiological births, and complex pregnancies.

You should hold a full UK driving licence.

Main duties of the job

Our Community Midwifery teams are GP caseload holding, providing antenatal and postnatal care, as well as supporting a 24‑hour homebirth service. Each midwife has an allocated caseload, and we maximise locality working by utilising children’s centres, community hospitals and public buildings.

• Our Community midwifery service supports a wide geographical area. There are 7 community teams based across Staffordshire and Derbyshire as well as 2 continuity‑of‑carer teams. Community midwives benefit from working within small, well‑led teams. We also provide care to the women housed in the Foston Prison Service.
• We are looking for midwives who have the ability to assess and plan care for women in all aspects of midwifery care with awareness and knowledge of vulnerable adult and child protection procedures. They should also demonstrate midwifery skills underpinned by current evidence, including suturing, venepuncture, perineal repair and have experience of caring for women in low‑risk settings including home births and waterbirths.

We can offer posts within community and welcome candidates who may wish to consider a dual contract between community and acute midwifery services. We are also able to offer family‑friendly flexible working arrangements with full‑time or part‑time hours.

This position will include on‑call, weekend and night working obligations.

Closing date of applications: 13 January 2026

Interview date: 27 January 2026

About Us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

Benefits

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On‑going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, and car schemes

Key Facts

• We see on average 4,810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2,077 per week.
• An average of 1,115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research‑active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Education

• Registered Midwife
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• An awareness of current national policy that impacts on midwifery practice
• Teaching & Assessing/ENB997/SLAIP

Skills

• Has a current UK driving licence

Experience & Knowledge

• Broad range of midwifery experience since qualification
• Experience of working within Community Maternity services
• Experience in caring for women in low‑risk settings including homebirth and waterbirths

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.