Complex Pregnancy Midwife

Job overview

Join the Frontline of Maternal Care: Exciting Opportunity for a Registered Midwife

This role also offers a special focus on bereavement care, providing vital support during sensitive times.

Make a Meaningful Impact on Expectant Mothers’ Lives

Your expertise and compassion will be central to delivering exceptional care and support, empowering women to experience safe and positive pregnancy journeys during difficult times.

Main duties of the job

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of families facing challenging times? We are seeking a dedicated healthcare professional to deliver compassionate antenatal and postnatal care to families who have experienced pregnancy loss or are navigating the difficult journey of bereavement.

What You’ll Do:

• Offer empathetic, evidence-based care within our Fetal Medicine Unit and Antenatal Day Unit, ensuring every woman feels supported, understood, and cared for during their pregnancy journey.
• Provide expert clinical guidance to identify and manage risk factors early, facilitating appropriate referrals to tertiary units and specialists when necessary.
• Coordinate seamless pathways for women at risk of preterm birth, ensuring they receive timely interventions and personalised support to optimise outcomes.

Why Join Us?

Be part of a compassionate team that values kindness as much as clinical excellence. Your expertise will help families find hope and reassurance during one of the most sensitive times of their lives. Together, we can make a profound difference—one family at a time.

If you’re committed to delivering heartfelt, evidence-based care with empathy and professionalism, we want to hear from you.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

Person specification

Qualifications

• UK NMC Midwifery Registration
• Degree / Diploma in Midwifery
• Practice Assessor

• Robust Evidence of CPD

Knowledge & Skills

• Completed UK Band 5 Midwifery Preceptorship
• Robust Knowledge of Antenatal Care Pathways
• Excellent Interpersonal Skills
• Excellent Organisational Skills
• IT Skills

• Knowledge of the SBL Care Bundle
• Experience of providing bereavement care

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We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.

As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact [email protected]

For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will be only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.

In applying for this post, you give the Trust permission to use your data for recruitment purposes.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should we receive sufficient applications or if it is filled via the internal redeployment process.

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