Job summary
Band 6 Community Midwife
Do you want to be part of positive transformation within maternity services?Are you passionate about personalisation of care and achieving equality and equity for women and their families?Our service needs a motivated and inspirational Band 6 Midwife to join our maternity team within our community will be a valued member of the team providing personalised care to women throughout their antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal journey.
This post will give you the opportunity to utilise and develop your midwifery skills and care for women in the Abbey Birth Centre and for those women/birthing people birthing at home. You will have the opportunity to take on antenatal/postnatal clinics and provide postnatal care within families homes.
Main duties of the job
Within ASPH we have a range of services. We provide a homebirth service, an alongside birthing centre, a level 3 Neonatal Unit and high risk maternal and fetal medicine service. This will give you the opportunity to become skilled in all areas of midwifery. An MDT approach is always used within these services and we work extremely closely with our NICU team to provide the best outcome for babies that require their care.
We pride ourselves in our working culture and the senior leadership team strive to improve the wellbeing and satisfaction of our colleagues. You will be provided opportunity for development and training within the trust and courses have recently opened a wellbeing hub and staff will have the opportunity to access the onsite gym and other resources.
About us
Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.
We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with our strong commitment to staff health and wellbeing. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.
Please see the supporting links which you can find on the right-hand side of this job advert. There is guidance on how to make an application on NHS Jobs as well as more information about joining the ASPH Team
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The postholder will
1. To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner for assessing, diagnosing and providing professional clinical midwifery care to normal healthy women during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal stages without referral to a medical practitioner.
2. To ensure referral to the appropriate health professional when deviations from the normal occur and to work in partnership with that health professional to ensure safe standards of care.
3. This post may be either hospital or community based with flexibility to move between care settings.
4. When community based, the post holder will be expected to participate in the on call rota/night duty for community.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
5. Nursing or Midwifery degree or equivalent
6. Registered Midwife
7. ENB 997/8 or equivalent or to achieve within 1 year
Experience
Essential
8. Experience as a qualified midwife and all clinical competencies achieved
9. Clinical experience in a busy NHS hospital (or equivalent)
10. Experience of working with technologies commonly used in the NHS (or equivalent)
Desirable
11. Data collection and audit
12. Experience of working in community setting
Knowledge
Essential
13. NHS Constitution
14. Trust vision, values and strategic objectives
15. Current midwifery standards and best practice
16. Evidence based practice and its implementation
17. Current issues effecting Maternity Services
18. Clinical governance and risk management issues
19. Philosophies of care for low and high risk women
20. Understanding of national policies and guidelines including Clinical risk management, CNST and NICE
Desirable
21. Issues currently facing the NHS and Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust
22. Trust vision, values, strategic objectives and key work programmes
Skills
Essential
23. You have knowledge & awareness of diversity and human rights as appropriate to your role
24. You are able to communicate effectively to ensure high standards of care, treatment, service or support as appropriate to your role
25. Be able to understand an individual's communication, physical & emotional needs; recognise their needs and preferences
26. Able to provide a customer focussed service
27. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
28. IT and keyboard skills at a basic level
29. Time management skills and able to remain calm and function effectively under pressure
30. Able to be flexible in the workplace
31. Demonstrable ability to work competently with commonly used technologies
32. Able to effectively manage risk
Desirable
33. Car driver
34. Demonstrable leadership skills
35. Ability to motivate others
Other
Essential
36. Able to demonstrate that you are honest, reliable and trustworthy
37. Treat patients, visitors, colleagues with respect
38. Ability to travel between Trust sites
39. Ability to be flexible to meet the needs of the team, the service and the Trust