Bracken Birth Centre Midwife: Sponsorship Available

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Midwife to join the Bracken Birth Centre team at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. This role offers the chance to provide safe, personalised and evidence-based care to women, birthing people and their babies throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal journey.

Working both autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will support positive birth experiences, promote informed choice, and deliver high-quality maternity care across community and acute settings. You will play a key role in supporting physiological birth, recognising and responding to complications and emergencies, and ensuring women and families receive compassionate, individualised care throughout their maternity journey.

You’ll be an experienced registered midwife with strong clinical skills, a commitment to delivering outstanding care, and the confidence to work independently while contributing positively to a supportive team environment. You will act as a professional role model, helping to maintain patient safety and quality standards while contributing to service development through audit, learning and evidence-based practice.

The role also includes supervising and supporting students, newly qualified midwives and support staff, promoting collaborative working across the maternity pathway, and contributing to the delivery of a responsive, inclusive and compassionate service.

Main duties of the job

You’ll provide holistic, individualised care to women, birthing people and their babies, supporting informed choice and promoting positive birth experiences. This includes:

  • Delivering high-quality antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care.
  • Supporting physiological birth, waterbirth and personalised birth plans.
  • Participating in the on-call rota, including attending home births.
  • Undertaking clinical assessments, risk assessments and care planning.
  • Recognising and responding appropriately to complications and emergencies.
  • Providing safeguarding support, parent education and emotional support to families.
  • Maintaining accurate clinical records and ensuring high standards of professional practice.
  • Working collaboratively with obstetric, neonatal, infant feeding, safeguarding, community and primary care colleagues to provide seamless maternity care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NMC registration
  • Educated to Diploma/degree level or above
  • Completed preceptorship development programme with a minimum of 1 year post qualification experience.
  • Mentor/assessor training qualification
  • UK driving licence and access to car

Desirable

  • Neonatal Life Support
  • Neonatal and Infant Physical Examination qualification (NIPE) or working towards

Experience

Essential

  • Can practice as an autonomous midwife in the acute and primary care setting
  • Clinical skills and experience in venepuncture, cannulation, perineal suturing
  • Experience of assist instrumental births
  • Management of epidural anaesthesia
  • Knowledge and ability to deal appropriately with high-risk cases
  • Knowledge and experience to deal appropriately with obstetric emergencies in the absence of medical staff
  • Ability to supervise learners

Desirable

  • Completed preceptorship
  • Management of homebirth and water birth

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • Approachable and flexible attitude to work
  • Ability to work collaboratively with clinical teams and project managers
  • Ability to display sound judgement and objectivity.
  • Have an awareness of and commitment to, equality and diversity
  • Regular exposure to unpredictable high levels of clinical activity
  • Willing to work throughout the maternity service, in hospital and in the community
  • Must be able to practice in all areas in accordance with the Midwives code of conduct
  • Ability to communicate to groups of people including parenting skills and childbirth knowledge
  • Ability to participate in the 24-hour service provision including participating in on call rota

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 25 October 2026

To apply for this job please visit somersetft.tal.net.