Midwife CV Examples & Writing Guide

This sample is a Band 6 midwife with about eight years as a registered midwife across the labour ward, birth centres and community, plus three earlier years as a staff nurse in obstetric theatres. The name and employers are invented. Replace the volumes, settings and training with your own.

Midwife posts are usually shortlisted by a matron or a ward or community manager, often with a senior midwife on the panel. They want four answers.

• Are you registered and up to date? NMC registration, your revalidation date, NIPE, any prescribing qualification and your mandatory training (PROMPT, fetal monitoring, NLS). Anything already in place saves the service weeks of training time.
• What is your volume? Births attended per month or per year, caseload size, clinic appointments per day. Without those numbers, a manager cannot tell whether you can run a labour ward shift or a community clinic.
• What is your scope? Some midwives work only on the labour ward; some rotate through birth centres, community and home births. Say where you work and what you do not do.
• Can you work inside a team? Escalation and handover are the friction points in every maternity service. One line about how you work with the obstetric team is worth a paragraph about your philosophy.

“I need to know three things in the first ten seconds: your registration status, how many births a month you actually attend, and whether you can hold a 24-hour on-call. Everything after that is the interview.”

Three to five lines. Registration, years, setting, volume, one outcome or quality figure. Student and newly qualified midwives use a career objective and lead with practice hours and births attended as a student.

Never paste your job description. Write what you personally do and attach a number: births, appointments, caseload size, repairs a year, transfer rate, outcome measures. Group them the way your service does.

Twelve to sixteen clinical skills, in the order your setting values them. A labour ward reads the intrapartum list first; a community team reads the antenatal and postnatal lines first.

Intrapartum and newborn:

• Labour care, physiological birth support, comfort and mobility techniques
• CTG and intermittent auscultation interpretation
• Care in induced labour under trust guidelines
• Water birth support, if your setting offers it
• Postpartum haemorrhage, shoulder dystocia and cord emergencies
• Newborn life support and NIPE newborn examination
• Perineal and episiotomy repair

Antenatal, postnatal and community:

• Booking appointments, risk assessment and personalised care planning
• Postnatal care and perinatal mental health screening
• Contraception advice after birth and onward referral
• Antenatal and newborn screening, and acting on results
• Infant feeding support and referral
• Fundal height measurement and growth charts
• Medicines under the midwives' exemptions, or prescribing if you hold V300

Professional skills a manager notices:

• Escalation, SBAR handover and working with the obstetric team
• 24/7 shift and on-call cover and handover discipline
• Supervising and assessing student midwives and preceptees
• Quality improvement, skills drills, guideline writing
• BadgerNet, Epic or other maternity record documentation
• Working with interpreters and with women from varied cultural backgrounds

Midwifery in the UK has one register, but employers still check the details closely. Write yours precisely and put the section near the top.

• NMC registration as a midwife is required to practise, and "midwife" is a protected title across the UK. Write "NMC registered midwife since <year>"; the employer checks your PIN against the register, so it can stay on the application form.
• Routes in: a three-year NMC-approved BSc (Hons) Midwifery, a shortened programme for registered adult nurses, or a midwifery degree apprenticeship. Name the route, the university and the year.
• Revalidation every three years. Write the year you last revalidated so a manager can see your registration is in good standing.
• Newly qualified midwives usually start at Band 5 with a preceptorship programme and move to Band 6 after about a year. Band 7 covers roles such as labour ward coordinator, team leader and specialist midwife. Give your band for each post.
• Extra qualifications that show up in adverts: NIPE, V300 independent and supplementary prescribing, and specialist training such as perinatal mental health, diabetes, bereavement or safeguarding.
• Mandatory training: PROMPT or an equivalent multi-professional obstetric emergencies course and annual fetal monitoring training and assessment are expected in most services, plus newborn life support. List each with the year.
• Practice supervisor and practice assessor roles you hold for student midwives. Say so plainly; services need assessors and it shortens their planning.

Student and newly qualified midwives have plenty to write, because practice hours are documented in detail. The mistake is hiding them under "education" instead of treating them as practice.

1. 1Write your registration status in the header: registered, or graduating on a stated date with NMC registration expected by a stated date.
2. 2Create a "Clinical Placements" section above work history, with one entry per placement: setting, dates, supervision and hours.
3. 3Give your numbers from your practice assessment document: births as the lead student midwife, antenatal appointments, postnatal visits, newborn examinations, perineal repairs. Universities track these, so use the real figures.
4. 4Keep your nursing or maternity support worker experience if you have it. Years on a maternity ward are a genuine asset and managers weigh them.
5. 5Say what support you want. Asking for a service with a structured preceptorship programme reads as self-aware, not weak.
6. 6List every current training record: NLS, basic life support, PROMPT, fetal monitoring.

• Two pages is normal and expected for a practising midwife. Clinical roles carry registration, training records, settings and volumes that will not fit on one page. Newly qualified midwives should still aim for one to two.
• Order: header with registration, personal statement, registration and training, clinical experience, education, skills, then teaching, committees or presentations if you have them.
• Send a PDF. Keep one column with plain headings so recruitment systems read it correctly. Most NHS posts go through NHS Jobs or Trac, so reuse your best bullets in the supporting information.
• No photo, no date of birth, no marital status on a UK CV. If you need sponsorship or have a time limit on your right to work in the UK, say so on the application form rather than leaving it to the interview.
• Academic midwifery posts and lecturer roles do ask for a full academic CV with publications and presentations. That is a different document from the two-page CV you send to a maternity service.
• If you are applying before your NMC registration comes through, put the plan in the personal statement. "Completing BSc (Hons) Midwifery July 2027; NMC registration expected September 2027" answers the first question a manager would otherwise have to ask.

Phrases worth mirroring from adverts when they are true of you: NMC registered midwife, Band 6, labour ward, birth centre, midwife-led unit, community, continuity of carer, intrapartum, antenatal, postnatal, caseload, on-call, escalation, CTG, fetal monitoring, PROMPT, NIPE, perineal repair, infant feeding, safeguarding, practice assessor, preceptorship, quality improvement, BadgerNet.