Community Midwife

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust invites applications from experienced midwives to deliver antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care in community and home environments. You will work within a supportive team across family services and linked centres, promoting safety and home birth while supporting high‑risk pregnancies.

You will be supported with training, supervision and specialist midwives, and may take part in postgraduate courses and in-house training.

Qualifications

• Band 6 Midwife status required.
• Ability to travel with own vehicle is needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide antenatal, low risk intrapartum and postnatal care in community/home settings.
• Work with a multidisciplinary team to deliver timely care.
• Participate in the on-call rota and travel as required.
• Manage own caseload and clinics in the community.
• Engage in training, studies, trials and changes to procedures.

Skills

Car driver

On-call readiness

Teamwork

Holistic care

Job description

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 Family Nurse Partnership, Children's centres, Family support workers, GP's and Health Visitors 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, specialist midwives to develop your practice further.

We have permanent positions for enthusiastic and highly motivated individual who enjoys the challenges of working in a team of community midwives working from the Trust in community teams.

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. You will have the opportunity to provide women with support during their labour in the home setting or hospital setting and you will participate in the on call rota.

https://youtu.be/6z4hf-99_g4, You will be expected to be responsible for your own caseload and clinics in the community on a day to day basis.

You will be expected to work weekdays and weekends and to be 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 setting.

You will need to be a band 6 Midwife. You will need to be a car driver with own vehicle and will need to be able to meet the travel requirements of the post.

You will have the opportunity to participate in all aspects of training with regards to various studies, trials and proposed changes to procedures and protocols.

Opportunities are available to undertake postgraduate courses and in-house training with the Trust

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and 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 health care 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.We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish