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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026

Inpatient Rotational Midwife

Description

We are offering excellent Band 6 Midwifery opportunities to join our service, and take your career forward within an outstanding Trust.

The post holder will commit to undertaking a rotation around the inpatients wards within the maternity unit. Options include Delivery Suite and obstetric theatre, High Dependency Unit, Birthing Centre which include 2 birthing pools, inpatient antenatal ward, triage unit, postnatal care unit with transitional care cots and antenatal clinic.

Main duties of the job:

  • Work as a midwife and rotate across all areas of the maternity unit
  • Assess care and health education needs of women and their babies
  • Maintain accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care
  • Develop leadership skills and experience in the management of the ward/department
  • Participate in training programmes and teach and act as a facilitator/preceptor to midwifery or non-midwifery staff

Benefits:

  • Excellent experience to maintain and develop clinical skills
  • Strong commitment to staff education and commissioned links with City, Kings and Southbank Universities
  • Masters scholarship scheme

About us: University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas.

Skills

Required

  • Registered midwife
  • Educated to Degree Level
  • Completed a 12-months preceptorship programme
  • Up to date knowledge of professional nursing and midwifery issues
  • Experience of teaching and mentoring more junior staff
  • Familiarity with basic IT applications
  • SSSA
  • Able to work effectively within multi-disciplinary teams
  • Able to meaningfully engage stakeholders
  • Excellent negotiation skills
  • Able to challenge clinical decisions in the best interest of patients
  • Able to network professionally within the organisation as well as externally
  • Highly professional role model
  • Demonstrating awareness of maternity related clinical governance
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Formal verbal and written presentation skills
  • Able to communicate sensitively and appropriately
  • Organisational skills
  • Decision making skills
  • Able to manage time effectively
  • Able to prioritise objectives and workload
  • Committed to professional and personal development and always maintaining updated mandatory training.
  • Willingness to clinically support the wider maternity unit to meet service needs as required
  • Ability to work flexibly, Monday to Sunday, days, nights and bank holidays

Nice to have

  • Neonatal course of relevant experience
  • Experience of undertaking research
  • Speaks a second language fluently

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9309-26-1012

Apply on University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust