Community/birth Centre Midwife

3 weeks ago


Kendal, United Kingdom University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Do you consider caring with compassion to be fundamental to your role?

Looking for a new career path in one of the most picturesque parts of the country? Then North Lancashire and South Cumbria is just the place for you, offering the beautiful Lake District on your doorstep.

Our Trust is recruiting enthusiastic, highly motivated community midwives/birth centre midwives, to join our dynamic, dedicated, forward thinking professional team which serves a wide geographical area with rural and urban communities.

You will need to be reliable, flexible, motivated, have excellent clinical skills, a commitment to on going learning and development, a commitment to delivering high quality care, and be willing and open to embracing positive change and transformation in order to meet the demands of the community we serve. You will require excellent clinical skills and a passion to provide home birth and births within birth centre.

If this sounds like you, then we want to hear from you

Development Opportunities

Here at Morecambe Bay we are committed to supporting our employees in mandatory training requirements and their professional development.

**We can offer the following (not an exhaustive list)**:
**Various in-house leadership programmes**:
PROMPT course
Support from Practice Development Team

We would encourage and welcome you to come and have a look beforehand.

The role involves working on community and within the birth centre as an autonomous practitioner within a multi-disciplinary team. It alsoinvolves maintaining a good relationship with other members of the team ensuring the women receive safe care.

You will be need to be able to provide high quality women centred maternity care, to provide effective leadership, optimise teaching opportunities and give support to all grades of staff; planning and directing activities to provide the optimal standard of care.

The role involves giving appropriate education to women and their families and giving necessary care, advice and supervision throughout the
pregnancy continuum. You will be required to ensure appropriate referral for mother or child, as required to other agencies and specialist midwifery team and to give necessary care advice and supervision to women and their families, wherever possible/appropriate.

We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.

WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.

All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.

Our community services for adults are provided in people’s homes, community centres, clinics, GP Practices, community hospitals and our main hospitals. Our aim is to work with people to help them remain independent, improve their health and manage their conditions through high quality care, advice and support.



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