Midwife - Fetal Medicine | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an experienced midwife with a passion for supporting women through complex pregnancies?

We are looking for a compassionate and experienced midwife to join our team to provide specialist care, counselling, and support within our fetal medicine service.

• Make a real difference
• We offer a supportive and dynamic working environment
• Work with a specialist multidisciplinary team
• Develop specialist training in fetal medicine

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary fetal medicine unit. If you are passionate about high-quality, empathetic care and want to specialise in fetal medicine, we would love to hear from you.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 midwife looking to develop their knowledge and counselling skills within a small team supporting women to make informed choices about their care.

The successful candidate will be supporting a consultant led outpatient area which provides specialist fetal medicine clinics to women within the Cambridge locality as well as women from other hospitals in the region that are referred to the tertiary service.

You will gain specific skills including the interpretation of high chance screening results and the ability to then disseminate this information to the women alongside their further options. You will act as a chaperone in the clinic and gain skills in supporting the consultants with data input and invasive procedures.

Requirements

• Registered Midwife with current professional registration
• Experience in antenatal or high-risk pregnancy care
• Excellent communication and counselling skills
• Commitment to compassionate, patient-centred care

Key Responsibilities

• Provide specialist midwifery care in fetal medicine clinics
• Support women undergoing advanced screening and diagnostic procedures
• Offer sensitive counselling and emotional support
• Work collaboratively with obstetricians, sonographers, and genetic teams
• Contribute to service development and clinical excellence

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 ofTogether – Safe, Kind, Excellentsupport 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.

Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?

• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)

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

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

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 31 May 2026

Interviews are due to be held on 11 June 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 31 May 2026