Community Midwife in Welshpool

Fixed Term for 12 months to meet the needs of the service. To provide advice, support and care of women and their families during the preconceptual, antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods. Provide a full range of health, education and social care advice to women within an integrated model of care covering pre-conception, antenatal, labour, birth and postnatal periods. Manage your own caseload of clients using the continuity of care model, throughout their pregnancy, labour, birth and postnatal period for clients and their babies. Work autonomously within local and NICE evidence based guidelines and within your sphere of professional practice.

Main duties of the job: Passionate about midwifery? Do you want to use all of your midwifery skills and have excellent job satisfaction? Then Powys maternity services may well be the place for you. Due to exciting development within the maternity service, we are looking for a motivated midwife to join our midwifery team in Welshpool. You will be joining a service with one of the highest home birth rates in Wales, a high physiological birth rate and the highest breastfeeding rate in Wales. You will be supporting women choosing to birth at one of our 6 free standing birth centres, 5 of which provide water birth facilities. You will provide and coordinate antenatal and postnatal care for both midwife led care and consultant led women.

As a service, we are passionate about supporting midwives ongoing professional development and the opportunity to access an award winning training during your employment.

Working for our organisation: Being the smallest Health Board in Wales means that you won’t get lost in the crowd. Everybody at Powys Teaching Health Board is valued for the contribution they make to our varied and diverse portfolio of community-based services. Together, we can continue to make a real difference to our patients and build on our unrivalled reputation. As a supportive and progressive employer, we actively encourage you to carve out a career with us, through a range of development pathways. We’re also lucky enough to be situated in one of the most beautiful rural counties in Britain, let alone Wales! Achieving a healthy ’life work’ balance is essential, and something we recognise by prioritising your well-being.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities: We would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers; but even if you don’t speak any Welsh, or want to develop your skills, don’t worry: the health board will support you with training.

Person specification:

• Qualifications and/or Knowledge
• Registered Midwife
• Awareness of political and wider health agenda specifically Midwifery 20:20 and All Wales Normal Labour Pathway.
• Post Registration education and professional updating in line with NMC fitness to practice.
• Child Protection in line with LSCB.
• Homebirth Experience.
• Post registration clinical experience.
• Range of clinical experience.
• Suturing – Able to suture without supervision.
• Obstetric emergencies – competent to lead in the management of an emergency.
• Homebirth – Able to attend as first midwife without supervision.
• Fetal Heart Monitoring – Able to interpret fetal heart deviations from normal and call appropriate help (pinnard/sonicaid).
• Resuscitation – competent to participate as the lead in resuscitation.
• Cannulation – Able to cannulate without supervision.
• Venipuncture – Able to perform venipuncture competently.
• Examination of the newborn – Able to undertake examination of the newborn following birth and in the postnatal period unsupervised.
• Aptitude and Abilities
• Normality – Able to promote, assess and deliver alternative methods to normalize care both antenatally and intrapartum.
• Breastfeeding – Able to discuss and practically apply UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative Team Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.
• Antenatal Screening – Under supervision able to discuss and provide information on antenatal screening tests offered and able to give details of the choices women have following a positive screening result.
• Research, audit and evaluation skills to ensure a high-quality service.
• Caseload Management with the skill to work as autonomous practitioner.
• Ability to work as a team member.
• Ability to plan, organize and clear decision making skills and prioritising.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Able to discuss and provide information on antenatal screening tests offered to women in pregnancy and give the reasons why they are offered and be able to give details of the choices women have following a positive screening result.
• Ability to speak Welsh.
• Values
• Empathetic and reassurance skills to deal with potential highly complex and sensitive circumstances that can often be emotional and distressing.
• Other
• Ability to travel.
• Ability to cover on call cover for service (team and wider area).
• Physical ability to handle equipment to meet the role of an integrated midwife within a community setting.

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.