Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
The postholder is responsible to the Matron and the Team leader and will assist him/her to provide a high standard of midwifery care in the community setting. The successful candidate will work in a community team providing care to antenatal women in clinics and postnatal women and their babies.
The postholder will be expected to carry out all relevant forms of midwifery care and will supervise other midwives, preceptors, maternity assistants, and students as necessary.
Main duties of the job
Community Midwife - Band 6: 30 hours/week
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity, and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. We welcome applicants who share our values.
We pride ourselves on offering flexible working arrangements, a robust in-service training package, appropriate ratios for statutory supervision of midwives, and a positive working culture.
We are looking to recruit a Band 6 midwife at St Helier hospital site into one of our three community midwifery teams. If you want to work in the community, this is an excellent opportunity for you to support antenatal women through their pregnancy journey in the community and to deliver postnatal care to women at home/postnatal clinics during the postnatal period. We use Badgernet to document our care and we are a BFI Gold accredited Trust.
About us
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to ensure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Community Midwife role. Please contact me to discuss the role further.
Person Specification
Questions based
* Qualifications
* Extra professional training
* Clinical experience
* Previous clinical experience
Questions
* Clinical based questions
Equality & Diversity questions
* Team working based question
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.
Lead Midwife for Antenatal and Screening Services
£42,939 to £50,697 a year pa inc HCAS (outer London) pro rata.
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