GR - Registered Band 6 Midwife - Home Birth Team

Registered Band 6 Midwife - Home Birth Team (Core Positions)

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Home Birth Team

Edinburgh and Surrounding Areas

Are you a Band 6 midwife looking to grow your career within a supportive and innovative maternity service?

If you are employed by NHS Lothian, have you completed your early career rotations as a part of your Early Careers Midwife Pathway (usually 3 years)?

We are excited to offer an opportunity for a passionate, experienced midwife to join our dedicated Homebirth Team within NHS Lothian. These Core positions will be based in Edinburgh and the surrounding areas , you'll work as part of a small, supportive team providing holistic, woman-centred care to parents choosing to birth at home.

This is a rewarding and autonomous role within our community midwifery service - ideal for a midwife who values continuity, physiological birth, and meaningful relationships with women and families.

About the Role

As a core member of the NHS Lothian Homebirth Team, you will:

Provide high-quality antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care for women choosing homebirth

Work within a collaborative homebirth team and manage a community caseload

Work in partnership with women, respecting choice and promoting physiological birth

Promote informed choice, safety, and personalised care, including families who choose to homebirth outside of guidance

Maintain clinical skills and confidence in managing community-based obstetric emergencies

Complete enhanced training to support safe, informed, and physiological birth

Work collaboratively with midwives, GPs, obstestricians, and other health professionals to provide safe, individualised and multidisciplinary care

The postholder will work a mix of short days (08:30 - 16:30), one long day per week (08:00 - 20:30) and will be on overnight calls once or twice per week. All unsocial hours will be paid at an enhanced rate.

We Offer:

A supportive and respectful working culture

Opportunities for professional development and enhanced training package

Flexible working options and input into scheduling

Job satisfaction from autonomous practice and building relationships with families

What We're Looking For

Registered Midwife with active NMC registration

Experience in intrapartum care and working in the community or homebirth settings

Confidence in supporting physiological birth, managing obstetric emergencies and suturing

Strong skills in communication, critical thinking, decision making and team work

A driving license (and access to a car) is essential for this post.

If employed by NHS Lothian, completion of the initial 3 year rotation in the Early Career Midwives Pathway.

Join NHS Lothian and help shape the future of maternity care.

Apply now and make a meaningful impact.

For more information about the post, please contact the team lead Alison Reid at alison.reid@nhs.scot + 07816 077602 and clinical midwifery manager Angela Watt at angela.watt5@nhs.scot + 07977 533462

If you would like to have an informal, visit or have a tour of any of our areas, please email the Generic Recruitment Team, who will be able to help arrange this for you: loth.genericrecruitment@nhs.scot

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As from 1/4/26, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro-rata. However, there will be a corresponding increase in the hourly rate so that pay will not be affected

Please note we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage

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