Homebirth Specialist Community Team Midwife

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Manchester is seeking a dedicated Homebirth Specialist Community Midwife. This role involves providing midwifery care, managing clinical teams, and ensuring quality standards. Join a vibrant team committed to enhancing patient experiences in homebirth settings.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience as a Community Midwife.

Responsibilities

• Provide midwifery care for women and families in homebirth settings.
• Coordinate the clinical team and maintain high quality care standards.
• Participate in the on-call rota for homebirths.

Skills

Communication

Organisational

Decision Making

Teamwork

Education

Registered Midwife

Continuing Professional Development

NIPE Training

Job description

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Homebirth Specialist Community Team Midwife

Band 6

Main area Community Midwives Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (flexible working considered) Job ref 349-SMH-7212529*C

Site Saint Mary's Managed Clinical Service Town Manchester Salary £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum (Pro Rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 28/05/2025 23:59

Job overview

Homebirth Specialist Community Midwife.

This is a brilliant opportunity for a dedicated, qualified Midwife who wants to take responsibility for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of midwifery care for women and their families. We are now looking to complete the recruitment into our new home birth team', Working on a shift by shift basis, you’ll look after the coordination and effective management of the clinical team and guarantee the maintenance of high standards of quality care in the clinical area. As part of a specialist Homebirth Team, you’ll participate in the on-call rota for Homebirths and ensure there is effective and sensitive communication between the women in your care, their babies and families, and the health professionals you work with, the on call commitment will be an average of 2 on calls a week.

Saint Mary’s Managed Clinical Service (MCS) are proud to be the largest maternity service in the country providing care for women and birthing people across Greater Manchester and surrounding areas, supporting around 17,500 births each year, cared for by over 700 whole time equivalent midwives. Saint Mary's MCS is a well-known centre of excellence, with an excellent reputation and a vibrant, lively working atmosphere. We provide community antenatal & postnatal services across our main hospital sites (Saint Mary’s, Wythenshawe and North Manchester General Hospital).

Main duties of the job

Come and join the new Saint Mary's Specialist Community Homebirth Team, dedicated to providing a homebirth service for the families across Manchester

You will be part of a team of 8 midwives.

You will provide continuity of care to any woman booking for a homebirth across the North, Central & South Manchester areas

Your role will include case loading an additional 1 clinic per week for women in deprived areas across the MCS, helping to support positive health outcomes

It is expected you will have 2 on calls per week (one 1 st and one 2 nd )

Dedicated to providing an environment that encourages patient-centred involvement, you’ll promote good working relationships with all the internal and external departments you work with, with the ultimate aim of providing the best patient journey possible.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail] .

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualification

• Registered midwife
• Evidence of continuing proffessional development
• NIPE trained

Knowledge and Experience

• Knowledge of the public health agenda
• Knowledge of multi-agency working together in child protection
• Knowledge of multi-agency working together in child protection
• Experienced Community Midwife

Skills and Attibutes

• Demonstrates communication and organisational skill
• Clinically competent and demonstrates decision making skills
• Ability to make calm rational decisions in the face of adversity
• Able to work flexibly rotating on to day and night duty
• Capacity to work with in a multidisciplinary team
• Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
• Effective organisational skills Good analytical and clinical decision making skills
• Enthusiastic and motivated
• Can work within a team

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.