Midwife - Community/Birth Centre

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Cemmaes Road; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting midwives to join our Practice teams within Maternity Services. Our Bluebell Birth Centre serves around 12% of births annually and we support community caseloads with intrapartum care; we do not have an on-call system.

We are a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC and are proud of our supportive, staff-centred environment. We welcome applications from individuals with excellent communication skills who are enthusiastic, self-motivated

Responsibilities

• To work across all areas of Maternity Services fulfilling a normal roster pattern and shifting throughout the week to provide maternity care to mothers and babies.
• Maintain a high standard of midwifery care at all times and act as lead professional where appropriate in planning and evaluating care with the woman.
• Support the delivery of services in line with Trust values and participate in continuing service improvements where possible.

Job description

Excellent Midwives make such a difference to one of the most life changing experiences. We know that our Maternity Department would not be the success it is today without the great team that work for us.

Around 3400 babies a year are born at South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust and we are proud to have been at the forefront of successful service improvements and developments including work with the Department of Health, Better Births and Baby Friendly Initiative.

We are proud of our Bluebell Birth Centre that is the place of birth for around 12 % of our women each year. Our Practice Team Midwives hold a community caseload and undertake low risk intrapartum care in our Birth Centre. We do not have an oncall system.

We have an exciting opportunity for midwives to join one of our Practice teams.

We are looking for individuals with excellent communication, who are enthusiastic, self-motivated and committed to the provision of a high quality service, ideally with a background in community but not essential.

If you’re looking to advance your career in a friendly and staff-centred environment

Unfortunately we are not supporting any International recruitment at this time.

To work in all areas of Maternity Services at SWFT fulfilling a normal roster pattern, working all shifts throughout the week to provide all aspects of maternity care to mothers and babies.

To ensure the maintenance of high standard of midwifery care at all times.

To act as a lead professional where appropriate in planning and evaluating care in partnership with the woman for both her baby and referring when necessary.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As Part Of Our Commitment To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion We Encourage All Applicants To Complete a Short Survey.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lisa Leeks Job title: Workforce, Birth Centre and Community Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01926 495321

Rachel Boyton - Ward Manager Bluebell/Community 01926 495321 x 6977

Kat Mitchell - Workforce Team 01926 495321 x 8648