Lavender Homebirth Midwife

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Camberley; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Camberley is seeking an experienced midwife dedicated to providing continuity of care for women birthing at home. The role involves managing a caseload, working closely with a multi-disciplinary team, and ensuring safe, midwife-led care. Candidates are expected to hold a degree in midwifery and a current NMC PIN, along with a commitment to ongoing professional development. This position supports flexible working arrangements to enhance work-life balance.

Benefits

First class development opportunities

Flexible working patterns

Wide range of training programs

Qualifications

• Experienced midwife with a passion for home births.
• Commitment to continuous post-registration education.
• Confidence in providing midwife-led care.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of women in the Frimley Health catchment area.
• Liaise with multi-disciplinary team for care planning.
• Ensure safe care delivery in community or hospital settings.

Skills

Knowledge of the 6 C’s

Awareness of research related to midwifery practice

Understanding of child protection processes and mental health act

Education

Degree in midwifery

Current NMC PIN

Registered Nurse Qualified mentor

Job description

Job Overview

The Lavender Homebirth Team are recruiting. We are looking for an experienced, dedicated midwife, passionate about providing continuity of care to a group of women choosing to birth their baby at home.

This opportunity will encourage you to develop your autonomous skills to provide care to women in pregnancy, intrapartum and postnatally.

You will work with your buddy midwife to manage a caseload of women within an area of Frimley Health’s catchment.

You will liaise closely with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure appropriate care planning is in place, where risk factors are present, to ensure fully informed, safe care is offered and provided to our women.

Main duties of the job

All midwife practitioners will be Registered Midwives, accountable for their own midwifery practice and will be able to fulfil the following role through the ability to make decisions with current protocols and principles of care in compliance with the NMC’s Midwives Rules and code of Midwifery Practice.

This midwife may be a recently qualified midwife or she/he may be very experienced but she/he will be expected to continue with post-registration education and development to become a confident midwife able to provide care with the women either in the community or hospital environment.

The post holder is required to take responsibility as a prime care provider in either the hospital or community setting. She/he will be confident in providing midwife-led care.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.

Person specification

Experience

• Be able to demonstrate a knowledge of the 6 C’s
• Able to demonstrate awareness of research related to midwifery practice
• Understands the application of the child protection processes and the mental health act

Training

• Completion of preceptorship

Qualifications

• Degree in midwifery
• Current NMC PIN

• Registered Nurse Qualified mentor

Apply online now

Please submit your application through the Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust job portal.