Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a caseloading midwife for the continuity of carer team based in OX4; The Ivy Midwives.
The Midwifery Continuity of Carer (MCoC) team at OUH is changing. Research has found that MCoC teams are most likely to be sustainable and least at risk of staff burnt out if based in one geographical area. This decision is based on staff feedback of working across the whole of Oxfordshire and the need to support areas of high deprivation.
Northfield Brook within the OX4 postcode is the only area in Oxfordshire with the lowest Index of Multiple Deprivation score of 1.
A MCoC team in this area will support the local and national aim to reduce health inequalities and provide an enhanced level of care for those most in need.
Main duties of the job
Vision and Philosophy of the Ivy Midwives:
The team vision & philosophy is to empower women and their families to begin parenting feeling confident, capable, and well-supported in giving their child the best start in life. This includes reducing the impact of inequalities amongst maternal and neonatal healthcare. Delivering this vision and supporting women and their families to make sustainable changes will help decrease the generational impact often associated with hard-to-reach groups.
The overall primary goal is to achieve: Healthy Pregnancy, Healthy Mother, Healthy Baby.
As a caseloading midwife, you will be planning and implementing individualised midwifery-led care, in partnership with the woman and the multidisciplinary team. Using continual assessment and analysis, you will provide continuity of carer throughout the woman's pregnancy, birth, and postnatal period to ensure her medical, psychological, and social needs are assessed and holistically cared for. You will work alongside multi-professional teams to provide the most appropriate care for women while breaking down barriers that can inhibit women with socially complex lives from accessing high-quality maternity care.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training, and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards, and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues, and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, focusing on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement, and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.
Job responsibilities
Provide a full maternity care pathway to a caseload of approximately 30 women and their families. This will include providing continuity during the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal period, with the aim of improving outcomes for women and their babies. In addition, meet the key performance indicators both locally and nationally.
Please see attached job description for further details.
Person Specification
Essential and desirable criteria
* Registered Midwife with current UK registration
* Band 6 Midwife
* Aligned to the trust values
* Conducts themselves in a professional manner at all times.
* Positive attitude to all tasks and stakeholders.
* Computer literate with experience of working with the Microsoft Office package
* Experience demonstrating the skills required for the post
* Key skills and knowledge for the post, e.g., knowledge of specialist field
* Community experience
* Public health awareness
* Safeguarding experience/knowledge
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and 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.
Salary: £37,338 to £44,962 per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
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