We are looking for enthusiastic and passionate midwives to join our well established Abbey Birth Centre team at St Peters Hospital, and help us to shape the future for our maternity services. The Abbey Birth Centre has four birthing suites, three with birthing pools, creating a home from home ambience. As a midwife working in our Birth Centre you will be at the forefront of supporting birth choices and bringing personalised care to women and birthing people, through optimising physiological labour and birth. The role will involve providing direct midwifery care in antenatal clinics, during labour, postnatal care and promoting the birth centre services. You will be supported to develop your skills and enhance your care provision, with opportunities including aromatherapy, biomechanics, moxibustion, acupuncture and waterbirth training may be offered.Main duties of the job
* Promote a culture of optimising physiology in childbirth, being able to identify deviations from normal and ensure appropriate action is taken.
* To work as an experienced care provider taking the lead in caring for low risk women primarily within our birth centre, working in other areas of maternity services including homebirths as required.
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, 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 ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care. This is an exciting time to join our Trust, as we work on the expansion of our theatres at Ashford Hospital and move towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures; with care delivered by dedicated, specialist teams in a modern and well-equipped environment. We hope to use this centre to create an environment of learning and to facilitate training of the next generation of our skilled NHS workforce. Our plans are ambitious - why not, come and be a part of our journey.