Community Midwives

6 months ago

Reading, United Kingdom Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Our community midwifery team provide care for women/birth people from Hungerford to Wargrave and many lovely areas in between. Our community clinics run from a number of locations, GP surgeries, children’s centres and hospital hubs. We have several teams that mainly work from geographical locations across our patch and the midwives are well supported by our dedicated maternity support worker team. Over the years we have enhanced our postnatal services for families and are proud of the service we offer.

If you have a passion for community midwifery then this is the role for you. If appointed you will be part of a friendly community team, be able to support our successful homebirth team in achieving a consistently higher than national average homebirth rate. Alongside this there will be opportunities to professionally develop and have the support of a community team lead.

The post holder will provide high quality clinical care to patients, in line with
the Trust’s vision which is "Seamless Delivery and Excellence in Patient Care and Health Outcomes" and at the Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust, we believe in investing in our people.

The post holder will accept any delegated responsibility for specific
activities/areas from the senior midwife/or person in charge.

The post holder should display effective communication and work as a role
model for good practice by adhering to Trust policies, objectives, protocols
and local guidelines, whilst adhering to the Trust expected behaviours and
values, and in accordance with the NMC Code.

The post holder should take every opportunity to continue to develop their
own practice and expand their own general and specialist midwifery skills.

Development opportunities across the service
- specialist roles including screening, diabetes, bereavement, Oasi, Quality Improvement and Audit and band 7 development opportunities.

Commitment to Continuity of Carer
- team of midwives already established caring for approximately 300 women/birth people.

Commitment to your development, offering many post qualification training, including multidisciplinary PROMPT, award winning 999 course with local ambulance trust, NLS.

Leadership Development-time and commitment given to develop Band 6 midwives in house training course. Many Band 7 and above Midwives undertaking degree at Reading University in applied management.

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

**Our values**: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised women care through appropriate frameworks, which are deemed safe and effective as underpinned by Trust values.

To be confident in the allocation and delegation of staff in respect of the clinical activities of the ward/department

To have experience in the use clinical standards and to participate in the process of monitoring the quality of care delivered. To ensure that midwifery practice is of the highest standard, in line with the Trust, CQC reports and NMC Code

To use a problem solving approach demonstrating an ability to assess, plan and implement and evaluate the needs of the women/families and carers.

Provide guidance to other midwifery and support staff and students that will deliver high standards of effective, women centred care.

Assist with the evaluation of care and initiate any action required, for example liaising with the multidisciplinary teams as appropriate

Supply and/or administer medication safely in line with Trust medicines policy.

To develop own clinical, technical and interpersonal skills and by developing a critical thinking approach will be a competent practitioner.

To have achieved competencies pertaining to the allocated ward/department

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