About this role
Job summary
The Midwifery Practitioner plays a key role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based, woman-centred maternity care across community, outpatient, and acute hospital settings. Working within the Women & Children Division, the post holder provides comprehensive antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care for women with both low- and high-risk pregnancies, supporting continuity of carer and promoting positive birth experiences.
The role involves autonomous clinical practice as part of a multidisciplinary team, ensuring safe, effective, and compassionate care throughout the maternity journey. Responsibilities include assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of individualised care plans, safeguarding support, infant feeding promotion, and maintaining accurate clinical documentation.
The practitioner contributes to maintaining clinical standards, supporting service improvement, and promoting effective communication across maternity services and partner agencies. The role also includes participation in a 24-hour rota, including night duty and on-call commitments, with care delivered across hospital and community environments, including women's homes.
The successful candidate will demonstrate strong clinical knowledge, excellent communication and time management skills, and a commitment to professional development, clinical governance, and collaborative team working.
This particular post will focused mainly in the Newark area.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Job description Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Further Requirements Essential
Mentor / Teaching Qualification / equivalent
Desirable
NLS/ALS course PROMPT Training
Qualifications-Academic/ Craft/ Professional Essential
Registered Midwife Diploma / Degree level or equivalent Further professional development
Desirable
NIPE trained Leadership course / equivalent
Knowledge Requirements Essential
Evidence of Professional development Able to demonstrate and understanding of clinical governance and risk assessment
Desirable
Experience of working in all clinical settings Understanding of cultural diversity Good understanding and experience with safeguarding policies and working with vulnerable families
Experience Essential
Minimum of two years post registration experience
Desirable
Lone working Time Management Champion role within midwifery practice
Contractual Requirements Essential
Adherence to Trust policy and guidelines Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service Car Driver/ Valid Driving Licence
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton-In-Ashfield
NG17 4JL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)