Community Midwife - Peterborough

Job summary
We are seeking Midwives with a passion for working in the Community setting,

Do you want to be a midwife that people remember?

Would you like the privilege of supporting people through their pregnancy journey to birth and early parent hood?

We pride ourselves on providing, holistic, evidence based care for the 7000 families we work with each year over the large geographical area covered by the trust and support our community staff to work in environments that best suit their skill set from the inner city to rural areas.

We are delighted to be able to offer a choice of birth environments and are able to support birthing people to deliver their babies where they wish, at home, in a midwifery led unit or in hospital.

This role includes an on call commitment to support our homebirth service for which we will provide all the training and support you need.

We want to invest in your professional development and there are multiple opportunities to support you with this.

If you like the idea of working within a dynamic, friendly, supportive team who all share a vision of gold standard care, come and join us.

Main duties of the job

• Providing evidence based antenatal and postnatal care within the community setting, following local and national guidance.
• Having a good knowledge of safeguarding and working within a multidisciplinary team.
• Supporting women with choice to birth at home.
• Providing education and support for pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period within a varied framework ie. face to face, sign posting to internet based support and external agencies where appropriate.
• Team working including a pro rata on call commitment.
• Managing a caseload of birthing people and their families, taking responsibility for all aspects of their care, referring appropriately and working towards a model of continuity of care as outlined in Better Births (2016).

About us
We are committed to supporting colleagues through organisational change. Priority will be given to staff at risk within North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care Board

Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description which gives full details of the role. Alternatively call to arrange an informal visit to meet the team.

Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Relevant Degree or evidence of further study and experience to the equivalent
• Examination of the Newborn
• Sign Off Mentor

Experience
Essential

• Communicating effectively with women, staff and other agencies
• Facilitate effective team working
• Demonstrate an ability to apply research to practice and to support changes in practice as a result of clinical audit
• Ability to practice within the scope of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct

Desirable

• Evidence and understanding of safeguarding processes and referral to multidisciplinary team

Key Skills
Essential

• Ability to write reports, guidelines, etc
• Excellent record keeping skills
• Ability to develop self and others to use evidence based practice

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.