Midwife
Band 6
- Women and Children
- Band 6
- Permanent
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- Full time
- Part time
- 328-WAC-7502364
- Friarage Hospital
- Northallerton
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum (pro rata)
- Yearly
- 18/11/2025 23:59
Job overview
Band 6 Midwife based in FHN Maternity Centre (Midwifery-led unit)
Are you enthusiastic about personalised, woman centred care?
Are you passionate about delivering high quality care?
Do you have a positive and flexible approach to work?
Are you interested in working in a friendly and supportive environment?
Then South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the Trust for you! We are offering an exciting opportunity for a motivated, enthusiastic and inspirational band 6 midwife, to join our dynamic Midwifery team.
We are a dynamic and diverse Trust, with a friendly and supportive atmosphere and our team delivers of over 5500 births a year between our two hospitals; The James Cook University Hospital and the Friarage (FHN) maternity centre.
The Friarage maternity centre, which is a midwifery-led unit, offers a comfortable relaxed environment for women and their partners and is a good choice for women who are keen to have a natural birth with minimum intervention.
The post-holder will be based at FHN Maternity Centre (MLU), however, will be expected to work at our James Cook Hospital site on occasion and at times of escalation.
Main duties of the job
We offer a bespoke training induction to smooth your transition into our team and we welcome your fresh energy, experience and passion to drive our service forward. You will have the opportunity to utilise your well-honed skills to provide antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care for women and their families in our area.
The Friarage Hospital in Northallerton is an essential part of our organisation and an important point of delivery for the community. It is one of the smallest district general hospitals in the country and has 189 inpatient beds.
This vacancy will close once sufficient applications have been received.
Working for our organisation
We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:
• Your Leadership Impact
• Leading your Team to Success
• Leading Into the Future
• Service Improvement for Beginners
• Developing your Service Improvement Skills
• Lean Practitioner
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust values and behaviours
• Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
• Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registered midwife
Desirable criteria
- Examination of the newborn
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- To maintain clinical skills to provide high quality midwifery care in a variety of settings.
- To develop skills and experience with the promotion, support and assistance of breast feeding.
- To hold and continually enhance effective communication skills in order to work efficiently within a multidisciplinary team.
- To develop awareness and skills in clinical audit systems, leading to improvements in care for women, babies and their families
- To develop skills and experience with the promotion, support and assistance of infant feeding
- To utilise their professional judgement to assess problems/conditions and needs to plan care for women and babies
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare McMann
- Job title
- Friarage Maternity Centre manager
- Email address
- clare.mcmann@nhs.net
- Telephone number
- 01642 850850
- Additional information
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ext: 64835
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