Band 6 Traditional and Continuity Team Community Midwife
Do you want to make a difference to families and their community?
Here is an excellent opportunity for you as a committed, caring, experienced midwife to utilise and develop the full range of your clinical skills and enhance the community midwifery service.
Working in a diverse community as part of a supportive team and with links to other family services, you will carry a caseload providing holistic care for women and their families, promoting safety and home birth as well as supporting women with high-risk pregnancies during the period from conception to parenthood.
You will be supported by the Trust with training, supervision, and specialist midwives to develop your practice further.
We have permanent positions for enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals who enjoy the challenges of working in a team of community midwives working from the Trust in both traditional community teams and future continuity teams.
The primary aim of this post is to provide antenatal, low-risk intrapartum, and postnatal care to women in the community/home environment. You will embrace the challenges of working in a community team and have the opportunity to provide women with support during their labour in the home and hospital settings. You will participate in the on-call rota.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for your own caseload and clinics in the community on a day-to-day basis. You will work weekdays and weekends and be on call overnight. You may be requested to act up for the team leader as required. You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team to provide women with timely care either in the home or other settings.
You will need to be a band 6 Midwife, a car driver with your own vehicle, and able to meet the travel requirements of the post.
You will have the opportunity to participate in all aspects of training regarding various studies, trials, and proposed changes to procedures and protocols. Opportunities are available to undertake postgraduate courses and in-house training with the Trust.
About us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute, and community services. We are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the healthcare problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients. We are delighted that we have been rated as 'Good' by CQC and have achieved numerous awards, including The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020. The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Job responsibilities
The successful applicant will demonstrate:
* Knowledge and experience in all areas of maternity services developed through continuing professional knowledge.
* Knowledge of professional midwifery advocacy.
* Evidence of excellent presentation, teaching, verbal, and written skills.
* Evidence of involvement in the development of protocols and clinical audits.
* Evidence of risk management experience and expertise.
* Ability to supervise learners.
* Expertise in procedures: venepuncture, perineal suturing, and highly technical monitoring.
* Knowledge and ability to work within both normal and abnormal antenatal care, labour, and postnatal care, and to deal appropriately with emergencies in the absence of medical staff.
* Knowledge of Child protection policy and legislation in practice.
* Effective communication with good interpersonal skills.
* Ability to cope with complex obstetric and medical situations.
* Effective counselling skills when dealing with face-to-face consultations within the maternity setting.
* Ability to communicate to groups of people, including parenting skills and childbirth knowledge.
* Ability to liaise with specialist agencies e.g., Social services and act as an advice resource for GPs/A&E/Hospital and wards.
* Awareness of health and safety issues within the community setting and compliance.
* Use appropriate moving and manual handling techniques as part of daily activities within the community setting and assist women during birth, post-operatively, and during the postnatal period.
* Constant application of analytical skills to practice.
* Competence in handling a vehicle in all weather conditions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Current NMC Midwife Registration.
* Diploma level studies or equivalent portfolio of evidence.
* Successful completion of a mentorship course.
* Child protection training with sound knowledge of child protection, domestic violence, substance misuse, and women with special needs.
* Basic neonatal and adult life support knowledge and skills.
Experience/Skills
* Knowledge and experience in all areas of maternity services developed through continuing professional knowledge.
* Knowledge of statutory midwifery supervision.
* Expertise in procedures: venepuncture, cannulation, perineal suturing, and highly technical monitoring.
* Knowledge and ability to work within both normal and abnormal antenatal care, labour, and postnatal care, and to deal appropriately with emergencies in the absence of medical staff.
* Knowledge of Child protection policy and legislation in practice.
Working Environment and Conditions
* Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner within the community setting.
* Car Driver.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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