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Midwife Employment Contract UK

Define autonomous midwifery practice across the agreed pathway, including emergency escalation, continuity, medicines and professional requirements.

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19 June 2026
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Role-specific duties

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Working hours

Standard and flexible working arrangements.

Holiday entitlement

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Confidentiality

Client and company confidentiality.

Disciplinary process

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Notice periods

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Practical checks to help an employer choose the right starting point and prepare the information the document needs.

When to use this contract

Deliver individualised maternity assessment and care, maintain safe birth and postnatal support, and produce timely escalation and multidisciplinary handover.

Workplace context: Clinical, ward, community or approved patient-care areas.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering professional registration. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering on-call and community work. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering medicines and clinical records. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering trauma and safeguarding support. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering NMC standards where applicable.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The midwife exercises accountable practice within registration and competence; care outside the midwifery pathway, prescribing limits or available setting requires appropriate clinical escalation. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

What to prepare before you issue it

  • the antenatal, birth and postnatal scope
  • the hospital, community and home settings
  • the shift and on-call arrangements
  • the medicines and emergency authority
  • the supervision and escalation pathways
  • the registration and development provisions

Day-to-day operating brief

What Midwife work looks like in practice

A midwife provides autonomous care through pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period while recognising when obstetric, neonatal or safeguarding support is needed. Employment terms should cover registration, on-call and shift patterns, community travel, medicines authority, clinical supervision and emotionally demanding events.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

  • Assess and support women and babies within scope.
  • Plan and document evidence-based midwifery care.
  • Recognise and escalate maternal or neonatal deterioration.
  • Administer medicines under authorised arrangements.
  • Coordinate safe transfer and clinical handover.
  • Maintain registration and continuing competence.

A realistic working scenario

During a planned community birth, observations move outside the agreed pathway. The midwife explains the concern, initiates escalation and documents transfer decisions and care provided.

Outputs to agree

  • individualised maternity assessment and care
  • safe birth and postnatal support
  • timely escalation and multidisciplinary handover

Records and evidence

  • Antenatal assessment and plan.
  • Intrapartum observations and care.
  • Medicine and newborn record.
  • Transfer, safeguarding and postnatal handover.
  • Patient records.
  • Care notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Clinical Lead, Nurse Manager, Matron, Practice Manager or Registered Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

  • The midwife exercises accountable practice within registration and competence; care outside the midwifery pathway, prescribing limits or available setting requires appropriate clinical escalation.
  • Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

  • Patient record systems.
  • Observation equipment.
  • Clinical communication tools.
  • Incident reporting systems.
  • Medicine systems where authorised.

Workplace context

  • Clinical, ward, community or approved patient-care areas.

Training and certification

  • Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
  • Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Contract priorities

  • professional registration
  • on-call and community work
  • medicines and clinical records
  • trauma and safeguarding support

Information the employer should prepare

  • the antenatal, birth and postnatal scope
  • the hospital, community and home settings
  • the shift and on-call arrangements
  • the medicines and emergency authority
  • the supervision and escalation pathways
  • the registration and development provisions

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The facts this Midwife contract is built around

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Work setting

Clinical, ward, community or approved patient-care areas.

Primary duties

  • Assess and support women and babies within scope.
  • Plan and document evidence-based midwifery care.
  • Recognise and escalate maternal or neonatal deterioration.
  • Administer medicines under authorised arrangements.

Tools and training to confirm

  • Patient record systems.
  • Observation equipment.
  • Clinical communication tools.
  • Incident reporting systems.

Governance focus

NMC context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering professional registration. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering on-call and community work. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering medicines and clinical records.

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Role wording

Midwife duties

Deliver individualised maternity assessment and care, maintain safe birth and postnatal support, and produce timely escalation and multidisciplinary handover.

Assess and support women and babies within scope. Plan and document evidence-based midwifery care. Recognise and escalate maternal or neonatal deterioration. Administer medicines under authorised arrangements. Coordinate safe transfer and clinical handover.

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What is added to the finished contract

The midwife exercises accountable practice within registration and competence; care outside the midwifery pathway, prescribing limits or available setting requires appropriate clinical escalation.

Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering professional registration.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering on-call and community work.

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Frequently asked questions

Can community on-call work be required?

Yes, with rota, travel area, response time, rest and payment arrangements stated.

Who decides on transfer during labour?

The midwife uses accountable clinical judgement and local escalation pathways, involving the woman and relevant medical or ambulance teams.

Can home births be included?

Yes where the service model, equipment, travel, second-attender, eligibility and transfer arrangements are defined.

Who decides when obstetric review is needed?

The midwife applies approved escalation criteria and professional judgement, obtaining medical support without avoidable delay.

Can continuity on-call arrangements be required?

Yes, with frequency, response area, rest, cover, payment and circumstances for handing responsibility over stated.

How should newborn concerns be handed over?

Record assessment, observations, care, risk and the receiving professional's acceptance through the approved pathway.

Can a Midwife prescribe medicines?

Only where separately qualified and authorised, within competence and the employer's medicines governance.

What happens if the employee's registration lapses?

Clinical duties requiring registration must stop and the employer's reporting, alternative-duty and review process should apply.

How should birth-pool duties be allocated?

Specify competence, water-safety checks, emergency evacuation equipment and the criteria for changing the planned birth setting.

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