Job summary
Community Midwife - Band 6
The postholder is responsible to the Matron and the Team leader and will assist him/her to provide a high standard of midwifery care in the community setting. The successful candidate will work in a community team providing care to antenatal women in clinics and postnatal women and their babies
The postholder will be expected to carry out all relevant forms of midwifery care and will supervise other midwives, preceptors, maternity assistants and students as necessary
Main duties of the job
Community Midwife- Band 6
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
At Epsom and St Helier we pride ourselves in offering flexible working arrangements, a robust in service training package, appropriate ratios for statutory supervision of midwives and a positive working culture.
We are looking recruit a Band 6 midwife at Epsom hospital into one of our two community midwifery you want to work in community, this is an excellent opportunity for you to support antenatal women through their pregnancy journey and to delivery postnatal care to women at home/ clinics during the postnatal period. We use Badgernet to document our care and we are a BFI Gold accredited Trust
If you are interested and would like to know more information then please contact me to discuss further, I look forward to speaking to you.
About us
St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Community Midwife role. Please contact me to discuss the role
Person Specification
Questions based
Essential
1. Qualifications
Desirable
2. Extra professional training
previous experience
Essential
3. Clinical
Desirable
4. previous clinical experience
questions
Essential
5. Scenario questions
Desirable
6. clinical based questions
Questions
Essential
7. Equality & Diversity questions
Desirable
8. Team working based question