Midwifery

Midwifery Introduction - Careers

Midwifery team group photo

Our dedicated Women and Children’s Health Division at North Bristol NHS Trust provides maternity services for the Trust. We can offer midwives many exciting opportunities that will help to develop skills in all areas of maternity care, including in our antenatal, postnatal and birth settings, including the central delivery suite and midwifery led birth centres. We are proud to co-produce our services with the Local Maternity System and Maternity Voices Partnerships. 

Roles include:

  • Registered Midwife
  • Maternity Support Worker
  • Return to Practice Midwife
  • Obstetric Sonographer

Our Maternity Services at North Bristol NHS Trust include the following: 

  • 24hr antenatal assessment unit
  • Mendip Birth Centre - An alongside midwifery unit which support approx. 500 births per year in the birth centre and at home.
  • Cossham Birth Centre – a freestanding midwifery unit with up to 150 births per year.
  • A 15 bed Consultant led Obstetric Unit, including dedicated space for providing Level 2 High Dependency care and a newly refurbished bereavement suite
  • Cross city maternal medicine services with specialist endocrine, epilepsy, haematology and renal clinics.
  • A Fetal Medicine Service including preterm clinics.
  • A Community Midwifery Service which covers South Gloucestershire, North Bristol and North Somerset.
  • Specialist Midwifery services including bereavement midwives, complex care midwives, perinatal mental health team, practice development team, infant feeding team and fetal monitoring midwives.
  • Collaborative working with the Trust theatre teams in the provision of elective and emergency maternity theatre care.
  • Our Continuous Improvement and Learning Team, which has previously been awarded Healthcare Team of the Year at North Bristol NHS Trusts’ Annual Staff Awards.  

What maternity services could I work in?

Our Maternity Services at North Bristol NHS Trust include the following:

  • 24hr antenatal assessment unit
  • Mendip Birth Centre – An alongside midwifery unit which support approx. 500 births per year in the birth centre and at home.
  • Cossham Birth Centre – a freestanding midwifery unit with up to 150 births per year.
  • A 15 bed Consultant led Obstetric Unit, including dedicated space for providing Level 2 High Dependency care and a newly refurbished bereavement suite
  • Cross city maternal medicine services with specialist endocrine, epilepsy, haematology and renal clinics.
  • A Fetal Medicine Service including preterm clinics.
  • A Community Midwifery Service which covers South Gloucestershire, North Bristol and North Somerset.
  • Specialist Midwifery services including bereavement midwives, complex care midwives, perinatal mental health team, practice development team, infant feeding team and fetal monitoring midwives.
  • Collaborative working with the Trust theatre teams in the provision of elective and emergency maternity theatre care.
  • Our Continuous Improvement and Learning Team, which has previously been awarded Healthcare Team of the Year at North Bristol NHS Trusts’ Annual Staff Awards. 

Other divisional services include:

  • Our dynamic Gynaecology Service with a clear vision to develop and take the service into the future with increased ambulatory care, supported by the Gynaecology Matron.
  • The tertiary level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, which is renowned for its excellent outcomes, particularly for the very preterm baby, which has 34 cots and offers intensive care, high dependency care and special care, with transitional care facilities on the postnatal ward.
  • Our Maternity Unit works closely with interventional radiology in the management of placenta accreta/percreta providing a 24-hour service which accepts tertiary referrals for women with an abnormally invasive placenta.

Midwifery Opportunities

NBT cares

Registered Midwife

Midwife standing a room with a bed

Maternity Support Worker

Maternity Support Worker

Obstetric Sonographer

Obstetric Sonographer with lying down patient using device on stomach

Current Nursing & Midwifery vacancies