Community Midwife
Job overview
Band 6 Community Midwife
Do you want to make a difference to families and their community?
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.
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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
Working for our organisation
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 to work flexibly.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful applicant will demonstrate:
Knowledge and experience in all areas of maternity services developed through continuing professional knowledge
Autonomous practitioner skills
Well developed IT skills.
Knowledge of professional midwifery advocate.
Evidence of excellent presentation, teaching verbal and written skills.
Evidence of involvement in the development of protocols and clinical audit.
Evidence of risk management experience and expertise.
Ability to supervise learners
Experts for the following procedures: venepuncture, perineal suturing and highly technical monitoring.
Knowledge and ability to work within both normal and abnormal antenatal care, labour and postnatal care and to deal appropriately with emergencies in the absence of medical staff.
Knowledge of Child protection policy and legislation in practice.
Effective communication with good interpersonal skills.
Ability to cope with complex obstetric and medical situations,
Effective counseling skills when dealing with face to face consultations within the maternity setting.
Ability to communicate to groups of people including parenting skills and childbirth knowledge
Ability to liaise with specialist agencies e.g. Social services. Acts as advice resource for GP’s / A&E / Hospital and wards.
Awareness of health and safety issues within the community setting and compliant
Uses appropriate moving and manual handling techniques, as part of daily activities within the community setting and assisting women during birth, post operatively and during the post natal period.
Constant application of analytical skills to practice
Competence in handling a vehicle in all weather conditions
Flexible Working - As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Qualifications - Please be advised that if the post that you are applying for requires any level of qualification (e.g. A-Levels, Degree etc) or Professional Registration (e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Medical Council etc) you will be required to provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. By submitting your application you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicant’s qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider. Furthermore, a sample of all applicants’ qualifications will be checked back to the educational institution or provider to interview letters to further deter fraud.
Visa/Sponsorship Information
In line with UKVI requirements, the Trust is unable to sponsor any applicants for Skilled Woker Visas who do not meet the minimum eligibility requirements including applicable salary thresholds and concessions. Before applying, please ensure that you have the right to work in the UK, or that the role is eligible for sponsorship. For more information, please visit: Health and Care Worker Visa or Skilled Worker Visa .