Define autonomous midwifery practice across the agreed pathway, including emergency escalation, continuity, medicines and professional requirements.
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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
Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.
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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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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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