Homebirth Midwife

JOB PURPOSE

To work as a member of small team of midwives and midwifery support workers providing full continuity of carer pathway for women and their families who are booked for a homebirth.

Job information

This post is for a Band 6 midwife preferable with 2 years’ experience to work in community and homebirth intrapartum setting to provide team continuity for homebirth care by an on-call service.

core key responsibilities

PROFESSIONAL

To observe the NMC Code of Conduct.

To work within the policies and protocols of Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and enable all members of the midwifery team to carry out care within these guidelines.

To maintain effective communication and working relationships within the team and between the team and other Health Care Professionals.

To be responsible for the maintenance and development of her own clinical skills and maintain PREP requirements. Including attendance at Trust mandatory training.

**CLINICAL**:
To possess the midwifery skills to undertake midwifery care for a caseload of women during all stages of their pregnancy, intrapartum and postnatal period and to be able to facilitate and provide continuity of carer to women on a low risk care pathway as a small team.

To actively promote Homebirth/domino/Birth Centre Care for women and support women through their place of birth choice.

To provide total care to women in liaison with other team members and the multi-disciplinary team to ensure safe high standard of care for mothers and their babies

To be responsible for the maintenance and development of her/his own clinical skills.

To support the development of midwifery practice and new roles within the service.

To assume responsibility for the safe custody and administration of drugs in accordance with the Trust Policies and Statutory Rules and Regulations.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

To assist the other team members in the co-ordination of the clinical/non-clinical activities of the team.

To assist with orientation programmes which familiarise new members of staff to the team.

To carry out regular Staff Appraisals of midwifery assistants and clerical staff under the direction of the Team Manager, and following appropriate training.

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.