These are the ATS keywords, credentials, and software terms that recur across current midwife job descriptions — organized so you can scan for what your resume is missing. Placement matters as much as presence: an ATS keyword buried in a skills list ranks lower than the same term used in context inside an experience bullet.

Title variants

  • Midwife
  • Registered Midwife
  • RM
  • Community Midwife
  • Hospital Midwife
  • Independent Midwife
  • Senior Midwife
  • Band 6 Midwife
  • Band 7 Midwife
  • Specialist Midwife
  • Consultant Midwife
  • CNM
  • Certified Nurse-Midwife
  • Certified Midwife
  • CM
  • CPM

Credentials

  • RM
  • NMC
  • NMC PIN
  • NMC revalidation
  • PROMPT
  • ALSO
  • NLS
  • Neonatal Life Support
  • IBCLC
  • AMCB
  • CNM
  • CPM
  • independent prescriber
  • PGD

Antenatal

  • antenatal care
  • booking appointment
  • screening bloods
  • dating scan
  • anomaly scan
  • FASP
  • nuchal translucency
  • NIPT
  • SFH
  • GDM
  • OGTT
  • anti-D
  • RAADP
  • GBS
  • GTT
  • fetal growth restriction
  • GROW chart
  • FMF

Intrapartum

  • labour assessment
  • cervical examination
  • Bishop Score
  • CTG
  • cardiotocography
  • intermittent auscultation
  • IA
  • CTG interpretation
  • NICE NG229
  • fetal monitoring
  • epidural
  • Entonox
  • active management
  • third stage
  • PPH management
  • perineal repair
  • suturing
  • OASI
  • shoulder dystocia
  • cord prolapse
  • eclampsia
  • oxytocin
  • augmentation
  • water birth
  • normal birth

Postnatal

  • NIPE
  • newborn examination
  • breastfeeding support
  • UNICEF BFI
  • NBS
  • newborn blood spot
  • APGAR
  • latch assessment
  • tongue tie
  • postnatal care

Long-tail phrases

  • midwife resume
  • registered midwife resume
  • RM resume
  • midwife cv
  • midwife resume examples
  • midwife resume 2026
  • NHS midwife resume
  • how to write a midwife resume
  • CNM resume
  • certified nurse-midwife resume
  • Band 6 midwife resume

Pasting these terms into your resume verbatim without matching context can read as keyword stuffing to a human reviewer, even if it passes the ATS. The full Midwife resume guide shows where each category belongs and how to work it into real experience bullets.