Midwife

To provide advice support and care of women and their families during the preconceptual, antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods. Provide a full range of health, education and social care advice to women within an integrated model of care covering pre-conception, antenatal, labour, birth and postnatal periods. To provide midwifery care in a range of environments through pregnancy, labour, birth and postnatal period for women and their babies. To work autonomously within departmental guidelines and sphere of professional practice.
- To provide advice support and care of women and their families during the preconceptual, antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods
- Provide a full range of health, education and social care advice to women within an Intergrated model of care covering pre-conception, antenatal, labour, birth and postnatal periods.
- Provide midwifery care in a range of environments through pregnancy, labour birth and postnatal period for women and their babies.
- Work autonomously within departmental guidelines and sphere of professional practice.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Powys is cited as being a wonderful place to live and work. It is a rural health setting where you can personally and professionally grow and patients are truly at the heart of care provision. If you are an ambitious professional in search of job satisfaction that other can only dream about, prepare for a very pleasant surprise as Powys is the place to be. We are looking for staff who have energy, enthusiasm, commitment and drive and who are patient-centred. Whatever your career aspirations, we are committed to supporting and developing you.

Powys Teaching Health Board is responsible for meeting the health and wellbeing needs of the population of Powys. As a rural health board we have around 133,000 people living across an area that is a quarter of the land mass of Wales. Powys is the largest county in Wales with Snowdonia to the North and the Brecon Beacons to the South, the spectacular scenery is something to behold.

Working in Partership, we commission and provide award award-winning hospital, community, mental health and learning disability services, so our portfolio is varied and diverse. We are proud to offer patients an unrivalled level of care, not to mention a wide range of careers for professionals who want to make a real difference. If working for Powys Teaching Health Board is something that is of interest, we may have an opportunity just for you

Responsible for planning own workload, meeting off duty and on call cover to ensure optimum use of resources to provide client centered care within community and birth centre settings. Carry and manage own caseload in partnership with a small group of midwifery colleagues to give continuity of care to women in that caseload. Process own work and time records to meet the unpredictability of a 24 hour midwifery service within Powys and provide clinical support where necessary to colleagues within broader teams across Powys. Assist in the responsibilities for stock control and general birth centre/team area management e.g. Pharmacy, CSSD and equipment. Responsible for monitoring own equipment ensuring it is fit for purpose in community and birth centre setting. Plan and organise of ongoing programs of care and educations as required.