Community Midwife inChertsey inChertsey PUBLISHED
FRI 15 NOV 2024
The successful candidate will engage in a variety of services, including homebirths and high-risk maternal and fetal medicine, enhancing their midwifery skills in a supportive and well-resourced environment. The trust emphasises employee wellbeing and career development, offering access to training programs and resources such as an onsite gym. This role may require flexibility between hospital and community settings and participation in an on-call rota.
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 team.You 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.
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 offsite.ASPH have recently opened a wellbeing hub and staff will have the opportunity to access the onsite gym and other resources.
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The postholder will
- 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.
- 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.
- This post may be either hospital or community based with flexibility to move between care settings.
- When community based, the post holder will be expected to participate in the on call rota/night duty for community.
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