Midwife - Community - 37.5 hours per week
**There is an on call requirement and a car driver is essential**
An opportunity has arisen for us to recruit additional midwives to our team in Community Midwifery. The role offers the opportunity to provide care across the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period.
The job role is varied and gives the opportunity for midwives to work in community hubs as well as the homes of women, birthing people and their families.
There is the opportunity to provide care for birth ,offer antenatal education and be a proactive member of the wider Multi-professional teams .
The post holder is required to provide holistic midwifery care to women/birthing people and babies in the antenatal, Intrapartum and postnatal periods.
The midwifery care is provided both in hospital, birth centre and community settings including the management of individual caseloads, clients and/or ward areas.
The post holder will deputise for the Band 7 in community. The role is multidimensional and requires the post holder to be willing to work in different community settings.
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are.
Service We will put our patients first
Teamwork We will work together
Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service
Respect We will act with integrity
1. To assess, implement and evaluate programmes of antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal and neonatal care for women and babies (within their family unit) in line with current evidence, Trust policies, guidelines and the Code.
2. Provide appropriate advice, knowledge and counselling to women and their partners regarding all aspects of antenatal, intrapartum (including home births) and postpartum care.
3. To act as an advocate for the women and babies receiving maternity care.
4. Demonstrate appropriate behaviour/attitude (helpful, kind, caring, compassionate and respectful) when dealing with service users and colleagues, acts as a professional role model for other staff in
accordance with the NMC Code (2015).
5. Provide parenting education, advice on health issues, and support in altering health behaviours, thereby improving health and wellbeing.
Please see attached Bands 6 Job Description.
If you are this midwife and would like to be a part of our future and can meet this challenge we welcome your interest in a post with us – please apply today!
This advert closes on Tuesday 10 Dec 2024
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