Community Midwife posts across the Abbey, Cathedral and Severn Valley Community Teams, part of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The work centres on antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care for a named caseload of women and their babies, with leadership, supervision and mentoring of junior staff. Posts mix permanent and fixed-term contracts with varying hours, in a service with a strong home birth record and multiagency working. Registration as a midwife is required.
What the job involves
- Assess and deliver care programmes across the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods for a named caseload
- Organise midwifery care for assigned patients and manage the caseload autonomously
- Use the full integral and extended skills of a midwife practitioner
- Provide care to bereaved patients and their relatives, including breaking bad news
- Communicate with multidisciplinary professionals and agencies to ensure seamless care
- Take action to keep patients safe, delegate care appropriately and report accidents and incidents
- Ensure midwifery procedures and guidelines follow Trust policy and national guidance
- Supervise and train qualified and unqualified staff, acting as preceptor and mentor to student midwives
- Lead by example, coordinate and allocate work to staff
- Maintain custody of controlled drugs according to statutory procedure
- Keep accurate, contemporaneous midwifery records in line with the Midwives Rules
- Take part in audit and research, and assist the Team Leader with staff performance, appraisal and discipline
Qualifications
- Evidence of further professional development
Registration & licences
- NMC registration as a midwife
Experience
- Proven experience across all areas of midwifery
Skills & knowledge
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Evidence-based practice
- Ability to formulate, review and update guidelines, protocols and standards
- Leadership skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to make informed decisions
Checks & eligibility
- DBS check, with cost deducted from salary if offered
Other
- Computer literacy
- Time management skills
- Ability to prioritise workload
- Ability to suture
Nice to have
- Management skills
- Previous experience of working in the community
- Evidence of advanced midwifery studies
- Mentorship training
- NIPE
- Knowledge of computerised maternity systems
What’s offered
- Flexible working, as a Timewise accredited flex positive employer
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