Community Midwife - Peterborough | North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust; Peterborough; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust in Peterborough is seeking a Community Midwife to deliver antenatal and postnatal care across home, community and hospital settings. You will work within a supportive, multi-disciplinary team and provide education and care tailored to individual birth plans.

The role includes an on-call element for homebirth support, with opportunities for professional development and service improvement within the Trust.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based antenatal and postnatal care within community settings.
• Support women with choice to birth at home or in various birth environments.
• Work within multidisciplinary teams and safeguarding frameworks.

Job description

Community Midwife - Peterborough | North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking Midwives with a passion for working in the Community setting,

• Do you want to be a midwife that people remember?
• Would you like the privilege of supporting people through their pregnancy journey to birth and early parent hood?

We pride ourselves on providing, holistic, evidence based care for the 7000 families we work with each year over the large geographical area covered by the trust and support our community staff to work in environments that best suit their skill set from the inner city to rural areas.

We are delighted to be able to offer a choice of birth environments and are able to support birthing people to deliver their babies where they wish, at home, in a midwifery led unit or in hospital.

This role includes an on call commitment to support our homebirth service for which we will provide all the training and support you need.

We want to invest in your professional development and there are multiple opportunities to support you with this.

If you like the idea of working within a dynamic, friendly, supportive team who all share a vision of gold standard care, come and join us.

Providing evidence based antenatal and postnatal care within the community setting, following local and national guidance.

Having a good knowledge of safeguarding and working within a multidisciplinary team.

Supporting women with choice to birth at home.

Providing education and support for pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period within a varied framework ie. face to face, sign posting to internet based support and external agencies where appropriate.

Team working including a pro rata on call commitment.

Managing a caseload of birthing people and their families, taking responsibility for all aspects of their care, referring appropriately and working towards a model of continuity of care as outlined in Better Births (2016).

*Please Note the advert may close sooner than the date advertised due to levels of interest, closing of the advert will happen with no notice*

We are committed to supporting colleagues through organisational change. Priority will be given to staff at risk within North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care Board

Please see the attached job description which gives full details of the role. Alternatively call to arrange an informal visit to meet the team.