Transitional Care Midwife
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Birmingham, B15 2TGView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
23 November 2026
11 days leftJob description
Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, based at our Women's hospital, is a leading Perinatal Centre and one of the largest Neonatal Intensive Care Units in...
Outstanding communication skill is required for this post with current experience supporting the operational workforce. There is close working with our partners across the Birmingham Local Maternity Service and this will be maintained and developed.
We have excellent professional development opportunities and offer a family friendly environment for our local community and region. The post holder will need to be adaptable, flexible, resilient, able to work the full range of clinical shifts over the 24 hour period.
Our multidisciplinary team works closely with colleagues in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal Outreach Team (NCOT), Maternity Services and the Regional Fetal Medicine Centre as part of the Network Perinatal Centre.
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families.
Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas. Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Qualifications
Essential: - NMC registered midwife; - Mentorship course or module, or equivalent
Desirable: - Neonatal qualification in speciality, or equivalent; - NIPE course or module; - Venepuncture and cannulation skills.
KNOWLEDGE & NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Completed midwifery preceptorship programme
- Supervisory and mentoring experience
- Evidence of leadership skills
- Record of personal updating in postnatal maternal care
- Knowledge of preterm neonatal care.
- Knowledge of current issues in neonatal care
ANALYTICAL AND JUDGEMENT SKILLS
Essential
- Able to prioritise discharges and admissions from a variety of sources using advanced decision-making skills
- Ability to prioritise workload in complex situations
PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Knowledge of safeguarding for adults, children, infants and neonates.
- Evidence of clinical teaching skills
- Able to supervise unregistered healthcare workers delivering patient care
PERSONAL SKILLS / ABILITIES AND ATTRIBUTES
Essential
- Evidence of advanced communication skills when delivering and receiving complex information in challenging or emotionally charged situations
- Evidence of expert time-management skills in time-limited situations
- Ability to manage change
- Flexible and adaptable to the needs of the service
- Able to work as a team member and lead a team during a shift
- Able to use electronic documentation
- Able to access results using different IT platforms
- Able to complete online mandatory training
How to apply
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Provenance
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First seen
10 November 2026
Last checked
12 November 2026
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