Maternal medicine midwife, wacs

Band 6 - Maternal Medicine Midwife, WACS

Band 6

Main area Nursing and Midwifery Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week. Job ref 360-D-11422

Department: West Herts - General Staffing Site Watford General Hospital Town Watford. Salary £41,957 - £50,387 pa inc. HCA Salary period Yearly. Closing 26/06/2026 23:59

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Maternal Medicine Midwife to our dynamic and friendly team here at West Herts.

The primary responsibility of the Maternal Medicine Midwife is to work as a specialist Midwife, offering specialist advice and care to service users with existing, complex medical conditions or comorbidities.

This includes assessment of care needs, leading on the development, implementation and evaluations on programmes of care and the setting of standards.

Main duties of the job

• Coordinate care throughout the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods.
• Triage referrals to the maternal medicine service and review antenatal clinic lists to ensure appropriate care plans are followed and care is tailored to individual needs.
• Co‑ordinate multi‑disciplinary activities including consultant led clinics.
• Ensure that personalised care plans are instigated, evaluated and amended appropriately throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods.
• To review maternal medicine patients whilst in inpatient settings. This may include within the maternity department and outliers in medical or surgical wards such as intensive or high dependency care units or the emergency department.
• Identify and elevate clinical concerns appropriately, ensuring timely referral to relevant specialists.
• Communicate complex and sensitive matters to service users and their families enabling them to make informed choices.
• Advocate for service users’ and families and escalates accordingly.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Share specialist knowledge with the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Promote your role as a specialist midwife and lead by example.
• Be aware of escalation pathways including freedom to speak up, safety champions and able to direct staff to these services where required.
• Act as a resource staff and provide educational updates and guidance on the service, referral pathways, and supportive, educational resources.
• Maintain the maternal medicine database to include all information for caseload including demographic data and provide assurance regarding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Work alongside the Lead Midwife for Maternal Medicine to develop the service within the maternal medicine network.
• Participate in the development, implementation and evaluation of standards of care, including guideline development, standard operating procedures, audit and quality improvement initiatives in relation to Maternal Medicine.
• Collaborate with the Clinical Governance and Risk team to actively contribute to incident reporting, investigation and the implementation of necessary changes.
• Participate in and contribute to departmental/team meetings.

Person specification

Education and qualifications

• Registered Midwife with UK NMC pin.
• SSSA/ mentorship or equivalent.
• Must have completed preceptorship and be working as a band 6 Midwife.
• Evidence of CPD.
• Recognised teaching/assessing qualification.

Knowledge

• Awareness of current issues in midwifery.
• Aware of current issues pertaining to the midwifery agenda.
• Knowledge of referral pathway to Maternal Medicine.
• Knowledge of current service provided by Maternal Medicine.
• Knowledge of the Maternal Medicine Network.

Experience

• Demonstrate significant clinical experience in all areas of maternity.
• Experience in escalating concerns.
• Evidence of making referrals to staff, other professionals/ agencies.
• Experience in delivering teaching sessions/ education materials.
• Experience of resource management.

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute healthcare services to a core catchment population of approximately half a million people living in west Hertfordshire and the surrounding area. The Trust also provides a range of more specialist services to a wider population, serving residents of North London, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and East Hertfordshire. As an employer of nearly 6,000 people the Trust is one of the biggest employers in the area and sees nearly a million patients each year.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.