We have an exciting opportunity for a midwife passionate about antenatal screening to join our fabulous maternity team.
Kingston Maternity Services remain committed to implementing the recommendations of The National Maternity Review - Better Births: Improving outcomes of maternity services in England. Continuity of Carer remains an important evidence-based way of improving outcomes and experience for women and birthing people using our services. We are continuing to role out continuity of carer models by implementing geographical community-based teams. We currently have 35% of women booked on Continuity of Carer pathways and aim for this to increase in the next year. Each team will provide an integrated model of continuity achieved through midwives working both in the hospital and community settings. This will enable midwives to be highly skilled in all areas of midwifery practice. Full orientation and support will be provided, and midwives will work the majority of their time in the hospital setting with some supported community shifts.
Kingston Maternity is a popular service with approximately 4600 births per annum, and approximately 18% of these occur on the Birth Centre. The most recent National Maternity Survey in 202 rated Kingston in theTop 5best performing maternity services in London.
Our service is funded to a ratio of 1 midwife to 24 women, enabling high quality midwifery focused care to be provided.
To provide woman and babies with high quality, safe midwifery care during childbirth. The care will be evidence based and holistic in meeting women’s needs in a variety of practice settings. In the absence of a Band 7 team leader, lead the team and manage the workload in the screening and fetal medicine care provision.
The care will be evidence based and holistic in meeting women’s/ family’s needs. To be a resource and support for the midwifery and medical staff involved in providing care for the woman and her family.
Kingston maternity is proud of its strong multi-disciplinary (MDT) culture. We provide a well evaluated, in-house MDT programmes, and staff have the opportunity to attend external study days or enroll for academic modules at our local higher education institutes.
Development and staff wellbeing
Your growth and personal happiness matters to us. After all, we can’t expect the best from you if we don’t invest in your development and nurture your wellbeing. From the moment you join us, we’re committed to fostering your professional and personal development within a supportive, empowering environment. Whether you’re just starting your career or looking to advance further, we provide you with the tools and opportunities you need to succeed. We actively support colleagues to take part in research, quality improvement and innovation, whatever their role or level in the organisation.
To support your wellbeing, we offer an extensive range of resources, including an on-site staff nursery at Kingston Hospital, wellbeing practitioners, regular wellbeing classes, dedicated staff physiotherapist, comprehensive occupational health services, 24/7 employee assistance programme, and a range of other support and activities.
We also take every opportunity to thank and recognise the work our teams do, through weekly ‘shoutouts’ and patient feedback, monthly and annual awards.
Wherever you work across our organisation, we look forward to welcoming you.
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This advert closes on Sunday 15 Dec 2024