Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- Band 5/6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 396-7209603-GO-PB-Y
- Employer
- Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maternity Unit
- Town
- Kingston Upon Thames
- Salary
- £34,521 - £50,697 pa inc HCAS (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 5/6 Midwife
Band 5/6
Home, community, hospital
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
Job overview
Kingston Hospital is looking for caring, enthusiastic, and talented midwives to join our team. We have opportunities for junior (Band 5) and senior midwives (Band 6) to join our Maternity Team.
Kingston Maternity is a friendly, welcoming and supportive unit, and a popular choice for our local population, caring for around 4600 birthing people per annum. We are proud to support a full range of birth options including our established birth centre and home birth teams. Our service is funded to a ratio of 1 midwife to 22 women, enabling high quality, midwifery focused care to be provided. The birth centre team are skilled in aromatherapy, and biomechanics and the rooms have birthing couches and pools. We promote a philosophy of holistic, woman-centred care in all birthing areas.
Band 5 Midwives
Kingston Maternity service has an outstanding and supportive preceptorship programme. There is a dynamic and experienced practice development team who are readily available to help and support you during your clinical shifts and in your professional development. The feedback from newly qualified midwives is that the whole team is supportive with visible and accessible team leaders, professional midwifery advocates, core midwives, and ensure consolidation of your learning. When you have completed your preceptorship, you will have access to the post preceptorship programme to support your transition from a band 5 to a band 6 midwife which is tailored to your individual needs.
Main duties of the job
Maintain a high standard of woman focused care in accordance with Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures across all clinical areas as required.
Provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of maternity care for women ensuring accurate documentation is kept.
Maintain a safe and clean working environment.
Communicate with women and their partners to ensure they have access to appropriate information.
Promote and maintain positive relationships between all staff involved in the care of the woman.
Act in accordance with the Nursing and midwifery Council Code of Conduct
Undertake duties on different wards/departments as and when required by service demands.
Education and Training
Kingston is proud of its strong multi-disciplinary (MDT) culture. We provide a well evaluated, in-house MDT programme and staff have the opportunity to attend external study days or enrol for academic modules at our local higher education institutes.
If you are a passionate midwife with excellent communication skills and a drive to provide high quality care to women please apply to join our multi professional maternity team.
Please note: Pre-assessments will be held on 21st June 2025 and Interviews will be held week commencing 19th July 2025
This role requires candidates to work Nights, weekends, Bank Holidays and other unsocial hours.
Working for our organisation
Kingston and Richmond Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country – close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames.
The most recent National Maternity Survey has rated Kingston as one of the top 5 best performing maternity services within London. The CQC rated Kingston Hospital’s Maternity Service as ‘good’ in 2022 and the Trust ‘outstanding’ in 2019, with staff positive about the hospital and the services they were able to offer women and their families. Leadership is strong and well respected and there is a culture of learning and a desire to improve the service.
Trust Values
- Compassionate
- Inclusive
- Collaborative
- Inspiring
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide woman and babies with high quality, safe midwifery care during childbirth. The care will be evidence based and holistic in meeting women’s needs in a variety of practice settings.
"Our mission is to create an anti-racist, supportive, and inclusive environment where every team member feels safe, valued, and empowered. We are dedicated to dismantling barriers through a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination, addressing and challenging racism to foster a culture of accountability and respect. Through collaboration and compassionate leadership, we strive to create a safe and equitable space that positively impacts the wellbeing and development of our team, and the communities we serve."
Our Aim: Diversity should be celebrated and acknowledged in all aspects of our work. We will achieve this by promoting continuous learning, encouraging open dialogue, and providing resources for personal and professional growth. By recognising and celebrating each other’s cultural differences, we will cultivate mutual respect and understanding.
Please see the job description and person specification form for more details:
This role requires candidates to work Nights, weekends, Bank Holidays and other unsocial hours.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife with NMC registration
- Commitment to professional development and evidence of CPD
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous NHS experience (Band 6 midwives only)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of Trust values and Kingston Hospital
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates understanding of role boundaries and able to recognise when to escalate
- Demonstrates a family centred approach to care provision
- Ability to coordinate and liaise within a multi-disciplinary team (band 6 midwives)
- Excellent written communication skills
Other
Essential criteria
- Awareness & understanding of Trust values
Your application: Please ensure your supporting statement aligns with the job description and person specification, as your application will be assessed against these criteria.
References: Please provide 3 years of employment/educational history with professional email addresses (not personal ones like Hotmail or Gmail). If you cannot supply these, inform the interviewers to avoid delays in pre-employment checks.
Closing date: To keep our recruitment process efficient, some vacancies may be capped and closed early once we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted by email or SMS from the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted. Please check your registered Trac email regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults at risk of harm. For roles involving direct access to these groups, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required. All employees, however, hold a responsibility to safeguard children and vulnerable adults as part of their duties and to understand the specific safeguarding responsibilities associated with their role.
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Text: 07501066267
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Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anita Mason and Natalie Breslin
- Job title
- Lead Midwives for Recruitment & PDM
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8934 2125
- Additional information
PDM office at: [email protected]
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