We are looking to recruit band 6 midwives who are motivated with a real passion for perinatal mental health and focused on ensuring the delivery of high-quality midwifery care. We aim to provide patient-centred, clinically driven, and flexible care, providing support to our patients. This role will involve working with women and birthing persons from diverse groups, low socio-economic backgrounds, and various settings.
You will be working within a supportive multi-disciplinary team autonomously, and with the specialist mental health midwife, community mental health teams, local IAPT, and health visitor for mental health. This will involve case loading to empower and allow women or birth persons to have a journey that will be compassionate and make a difference to their families.
We have both full-time and part-time jobs available as well as flexible working opportunities. We also have flexible options of working within more than one clinical area. For example, splitting hours between the inpatient unit and our community team.
This exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a midwife within our well-established multi-disciplinary team, supporting patients, colleagues, and students.
As a member of our team, the midwife is responsible for planning and implementing care for patients throughout the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal period within their role as an autonomous practitioner.
* Work directly alongside the perinatal mental health specialist midwife in a support role.
* Provide a full range of midwifery care, health education, and social care advice to women in all care settings.
* Take on the role of caseloading targeted mothers who have mental health needs.
* Work within a continuity of care model for women with perinatal mental health needs/vulnerable families.
* Provide clinical and professional expertise to the multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team.
* Participate in the development of midwifery services to meet the needs of mothers with mild, moderate, and severe mental health problems.
* Assess the full range of care needs and assist in developing, implementing, and evaluating programmes of care in the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal period for women and their babies.
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
* As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
* We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension, and access to NHS discount schemes.
* We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
* We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
* As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
* Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
* A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.
What do we stand for?
* Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities, and be a great place to work.
* Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
* Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect, and enable.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Nicola Henson
Job title: Matron for maternity safeguarding
Email address: nicola.henson1@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07799347277
Mon-Fri 8am-4pm
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