We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and compassionate midwife to join our Community Midwifery team based in the Oak Tree Family Centre in Stranraer. You will be joining a small team of midwives, midwife sonographer, maternity care assistant and HCSW, providing antenatal and postnatal care from our Midwifery Hub, within GP practices and womens homes. We provide evidence-based, family centred care supporting women’s choice of birthplace, including homebirths, offering an on call home birth service in collaboration with other community teams across Dumfries and Galloway.
The geographical location of the midwifery hub in Stranraer, on the South West coast of Scotland, is approx 75 miles from the consultant led Maternity Unit in Dumfries however we work collaboratively with the wider multi-disciplinary team supporting a weekly obstetric / scanning clinic and promote telemedicine technology in maintaining close communication with colleagues in the consultant unit.
You will be responsible for a caseload of women, adopting a flexible approach to maintain optimum continuity of carer for women and families on your caseload.
Across Dumfries and Galloway, the maternity unit supports a birth rate of approximately 1100 babies a year with between 200-300 women based in the West of the region. Dumfries and Galloway is a beautiful place to live and work, displaying an array of glorious countryside with close transport links to both sides of the border.