Job overview

Exciting Opportunities for Newly Qualified Midwives at The NCA Maternity Team

The NCA is thrilled to offer welcoming opportunities for Newly Qualified Midwives to join our friendly, supportive Maternity Team. If you’re passionate about starting your midwifery career in a nurturing environment, we’d love to hear from you.

We pride ourselves on our comprehensive preceptorship programs, designed to support you as you develop your skills across all areas of midwifery practice. These programs may include integrated MLC preceptorships, combining community and birth centre shifts, as well as placements on antenatal wards, labour wards, maternity triage, and postnatal wards — giving you a well-rounded foundation in maternity care.

Please note, this opportunity is exclusively for student midwives who are due to qualify and anticipate gaining entry to the NMC register by early October 2025.

Join us and embark on a rewarding journey in midwifery, supported every step of the way by our dedicated team.

Main duties of the job

Exciting Opportunity for Newly Qualified Midwives

As a Newly Qualified Midwife, you will play a vital role in assessing, implementing, and evaluating clinical care for women, birthing people, and babies within our maternity unit. Working closely with a dedicated multidisciplinary team, you will ensure that effective, personalized care is planned and delivered with compassion and professionalism.

In this role, you will undertake relevant further study as needed and complete a comprehensive preceptorship program designed to support your development and confidence in practice. Maintaining high standards of professionalism and clinical excellence will be central to your role, ensuring the best outcomes for those in your care.

You will also have the opportunity to provide support and supervision to less experienced practitioners, midwives, nurses, and students, helping to uphold the trust’s standards and competencies while fostering a collaborative, team-oriented environment.

Join us and begin your midwifery career in a supportive, caring setting where your skills will grow, and your impact will make a difference.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.