Parent Education Midwife

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a passionate Midwife to join their Parent Education Team. This role offers a unique opportunity to empower expectant parents through engaging antenatal classes and workshops. You will provide holistic midwifery care, ensuring continuity from booking through to postnatal support. With a commitment to excellence and a focus on compassionate care, this organization values each midwife's individuality and offers robust support, including professional development opportunities. If you are enthusiastic about making a difference in the lives of families, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing evidence-based midwifery care.
• Ability to facilitate antenatal classes and workshops.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality midwifery care to women requesting homebirth.
• Work as part of a team and participate in the on-call rota.

Skills

Holistic Midwifery Care

Communication Skills

Teamwork

Empathy

Decision Making

Education

Registered Midwife Qualification

Job description

A wonderful opportunity has arisen for an experienced Midwife to work within our Parent Education Team at Royal London Hospital. We are looking for enthusiastic, compassionate and motivated individuals who provide a wide range of high-quality daytime, evening and weekend antenatal classes and workshops to service users and their birth partners. The classes are fun and interactive and are designed to deliver current evidence-based information to our expectant parents.

Raising their resilience and giving them the tools for informed decision making regarding their birth and parenting choices. We empower service users to achieve a positive experience and equip birth partners with confidence to provide support throughout birth and beyond into early parenthood.

If you are dynamic, charismatic, energetic and passionate about educating and empowering expectant parents, then this post is for you! You will have the opportunity to learn and develop new skills in creative communication and facilitating antenatal classes to a high standard.

We understand and value that each of our midwives are individuals. With individual needs, motivation and aspiration we are committed in supporting you. By working in our Parent Education Team, you will be supported by the Parent Education Lead Midwife, Matron and multidisciplinary team. Alongside this, you will also have support from our Professional Midwifery Advocates, through Restorative Clinical Supervision, group and 1:1 sessions.

Main duties of the job

1. To provide high quality, evidence based holistic midwifery care to women requesting homebirth or a caseload model of care.
2. To provide continuity of care to women from booking, antenatal, intrapartum and beyond.
3. The midwife will be required to work as part of a team and participate in the on-call rota to facilitate the women’s desired place of birth.
4. Supervises: Health care support workers, Student midwives, and junior qualified staff.

Working for our organisation

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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