Community Midwife

**Band 6 Traditional and Continuity Team 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 both traditional community teams and future continuity 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 and setting or hospital setting and you will participate in the on call rota.