Midwife | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a passionate and compassionate Newly Qualified Midwife ready to begin an exciting and rewarding career?

At Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we are proud to offer a supportive, innovative and dynamic environment where you can thrive, develop and truly make a difference to women, birthing people and their families.

Why Join Us?

Be part of a highly skilled, welcoming and supportive team

Access a comprehensive preceptorship programme tailored to newly qualified midwives

Gain experience across a variety of clinical settings including antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care

Opportunities for continuous professional development and career progression

Work within a Trust committed to excellence, safety and personalised care

As a Newly Qualified Midwife, you will

• Provide safe, compassionate and evidence-based care to women and families
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team
• Develop your clinical confidence and skills through structured support
• Contribute to a positive and inclusive care environment

What We’re Looking For

A newly qualified or soon-to-qualify midwife (or awaiting NMC registration)

A strong commitment to high-quality, woman-centred care

Excellent communication and teamwork skills

Enthusiasm, resilience and a willingness to learn

All posts within the maternity service are rotational, ensuring midwives maintain and develop clinical skills across all care settings, including:

• Birth environments
• Antenatal wards
• Postnatal wards and close observation unit
• Community Setting

Our teams work a variety of rostered shifts, including long days and night shifts to support a 24-hour service, 365 days per year.

We are looking for adaptable professionals who can demonstrate the flexibility required to meet service needs.

About Us

The Maternity Unit at Cambridge University Hospitals is a fantastic place to work. We are friendly, ambitious, and continuously striving to improve the care we provide.

We are looking for midwives who

• Are motivated, compassionate, and patient-focused
• Demonstrate strong clinical and communication skills
• Thrive in a multidisciplinary team environment
• Are committed to continuous learning and service improvement

If you are ready to take the next step in your midwifery career within a vibrant tertiary service, we would love to hear from you.

This is your opportunity to start your career in a Trust that values your development, wellbeing and ambition.

We can’t wait to welcome you to our midwifery family.

Come Nurse with us…

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.

We are committed to delivering an exceptionally high standard of care, and we expect all staff to act as role models, consistently demonstrating CUH values and behaviours in everything they do.

At CUH, you will be part of a supportive and forward-thinking team, where

• Collaboration is valued
• Professional development is actively supported
• Innovation and improvement are encouraged

Why Join Us?

• Work within a diverse and dynamic clinical environment
• Gain experience across a full rotational maternity model
• Be part of a compassionate and inclusive team culture
• Access ongoing learning, development and career progression

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Please note for secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:

• applied for a Graduate visa
• or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment

This vacancy will close at midnight on 19th July 2026.

Interviews are due to be held on 3rd August 2026.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

This advert closes on Sunday 19 Jul 2026