Main area: Community Midwife
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 28.5 hours per week (7.5 hour shifts)
Job ref: 225-DIV1-6562951
Employer: The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Community
Town: Wolverhampton
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/11/2024 23:59
Community Midwife
Band 6
Job overview
Band 6 Traditional and Continuity Team Community Midwife
Do you want to make a difference to families and their community?
Here is an excellent opportunity for you as a committed, caring, experienced midwife to utilise and develop the full range of your clinical skills and enhance the community midwifery service.
Working in a diverse community as part of a supportive team and with links to other family services, you will carry a caseload providing holistic care for women and their families, promoting safety and home birth as well as supporting women with high-risk pregnancies during the period from conception to parenthood.
You will be supported by the Trust with training, supervision, and specialist midwives to develop your practice further.
The primary aim of this post is to provide antenatal, low-risk intrapartum, and postnatal care to women in the community/home environment. You will embrace the challenges of working in a community team and will have the opportunity to provide women with support during their labour in either a home or hospital setting and participate in the on-call rota.
You will be responsible for your own caseload and clinics in the community on a day-to-day basis, working weekdays and weekends, and being on call overnight. You may be requested to act up for the team leader as required. You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team to provide women with timely care either in the home or other settings.
You will need to be a Band 6 Midwife, a car driver with your own vehicle, and able to meet the travel requirements of the post.
Opportunities are available to undertake postgraduate courses and in-house training with the Trust.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute, and community services. We are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the healthcare problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful applicant will demonstrate:
1. Knowledge and experience in all areas of maternity services developed through continuing professional knowledge.
2. Knowledge of professional midwifery advocacy.
3. Evidence of excellent presentation, teaching, verbal, and written skills.
4. Evidence of involvement in the development of protocols and clinical audit.
5. Evidence of risk management experience and expertise.
6. Ability to supervise learners.
7. Expertise in procedures: venepuncture, perineal suturing, and highly technical monitoring.
8. Knowledge and ability to work within both normal and abnormal antenatal care, labour, and postnatal care and to deal appropriately with emergencies in the absence of medical staff.
9. Knowledge of Child protection policy and legislation in practice.
10. Effective communication with good interpersonal skills.
11. Ability to cope with complex obstetric and medical situations.
12. Effective counseling skills when dealing with face-to-face consultations within the maternity setting.
13. Ability to communicate to groups of people including parenting skills and childbirth knowledge.
14. Ability to liaise with specialist agencies e.g. Social services.
15. Awareness of health and safety issues within the community setting and compliance.
16. Competence in handling a vehicle in all weather conditions.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Current NMC Midwife Registration
* Diploma level studies or equivalent portfolio of evidence
* Successful completion of a mentorship course
* Child protection training. Sound knowledge of child protection, domestic violence, substance misuse, and women with special needs.
* Basic neonatal and adult life support knowledge and skills
Experience/Skills
* Knowledge and experience in all areas of maternity services developed through continuing professional knowledge
* Knowledge of statutory midwifery supervision
* Expertise in procedures: venepuncture, cannulation, perineal suturing, and highly technical monitoring
* Knowledge and ability to work within both normal and abnormal antenatal care, labour, and postnatal care and to deal appropriately with emergencies in the absence of medical staff
* Knowledge of Child protection policy and legislation in practice
Working Environment and Conditions
* Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner within the community setting
* Car Driver
Flexible Working - As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region, we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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