Community/mlu Midwife

Are you committed to providing a safe, high standard of midwifery care? Are you passionate about delivering memorable experiences whilst supporting women, birthing people and their families before, during and after pregnancy and childbirth?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and dedicated midwives to join our team at Wallingford Birth Centre. Our team of community midwives provide antenatal, postnatal and labour care in our freestanding midwife led unit (MLU) as well as homebirth to women in South Oxfordshire. We are passionate about providing safe, effective care to women and their families in their chosen place of birth.

As a community midwife, you will also work closely with the multidisciplinary teams at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, to provide care for those experiencing more high-risk pregnancies.

If you feel like a new challenge, come and join our fabulous community team at Wallingford Birth Centre.

Full and part time hours available.

**Who we are looking for**:

- Compassionate, dedicated and motivated midwives to join our experienced and friendly team
- Midwives who have excellent team working and communication skills and who are well-versed in time management
- Colleagues who put patients at the heart of their day and strive to work collaboratively with them, upholding our role as advocates and champions of women.
- Midwives who think innovatively to increase numbers of MLU/homebirths,

**What we offer**:

- To work with a welcoming, experienced and supportive group of Midwives
- Ongoing professional development and encouragement to achieve your ambitions
- The opportunity to experience the joys of providing care throughout pregnancy, labour and
- the postnatal period, benefiting from continuous care with your own caseload of patients

Community Midwifery has an on call commitment & it is essential you hold a UK driving licence.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Please see attached job description and person specification. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information.