Community Midwife York

2 months ago

York, United Kingdom York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Are you an experienced community midwife or a hospital-based midwife looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about offering excellent, open, kind, community-based midwifery care in line with our organisational values? Would you love to work in the beautiful mixture of city and rural areas within North and East Yorkshire?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 6 midwives (or Band 5 with a minimum of a year's experience), to join our welcoming supportive teams of midwives, caring for women and birthing people in the community.

Successful applicants will meet the essential person specifications for this role and hold a current NMC registration. They will work in accordance with the NMC code and local and national guidance, to provide antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care in the community.

A robust induction period will be provided, where successful applicants will be supported by recruitment and retention midwives, clinical support staff and an active group of Professional Midwifery Advocates.

Main duties of the job

As a Community Midwife, you will work from GPs surgeries, Health Centres and Children's Centres, The City of York has also received national funding for Community Hubs and you will have the opportunity to be part of this exciting new project in the future.

You will be responsible for managing a community caseload, whilst also working collaboratively within a team of midwives, to provide antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care. You will work within an on-call system to provide the homebirth service. The right candidate for this role will be passionate about community care, and be keen to contribute their innovative ideas to support continuous quality improvement.

This dynamic role includes effectively identifying additional social, emotional, and physical needs of people on your caseload, and utilising and strengthening existing links to work alongside professional groups within the hospital and community to provide safe and effective holistic care. You will have the opportunity to provide high quality parent education in the beautiful new York community stadium venue.

You will be supported to participate in training to maintain and develop your practice as well as contributing to safeguarding supervision sessions facilitated by the safeguarding team, to support your own practice and that of your colleagues.

About us

Our benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants

27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)

A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully. If you would like to discuss a potential relocation package, please speak to the recruiting department/manager.

A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave

Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme

NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme

An extensive range of learning and development opportunities

Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers

For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.

Job description

Job responsibilities

A full description of the role is available in the attachment: job description.

Please note that if a high number of applications are received this advert may close early. You are advised to submit you application at the earliest opportunity.

Working for the Trust

Across our organisation, people are guided by values that were co-developed with staff: we are kind; we are open; and we pursue excellence.

Our values play into our ambition to develop a more diverse workforce, truly representative of our communities. We welcome applications from everyone, while working with our Staff Networks - including our Race Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability and Carers Networks - to increase the number of applications we receive from different backgrounds. If there is anything we can do to make our application process more accessible to you, please contact: .

As part of seeking to become more inclusive, we will consider requests for flexible working from the start of your employment. It may not be suitable for every role, but we will try and be supportive where we can. We would encourage you to speak to the recruiting manager named within this advert to discuss any requirements you may have.

Armed Forces Friendly Employer

We are holders of the Gold Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britains Reservists and Employers. This means that we have made a statement of intent to support all Defence personnel, including with applications for employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements

Our Trust continues to strongly encourage our staff to be vaccinated against COVID19, this remains our best defence to protect our patients, ourselves and everyone else.

Person Specification

Skills and Personal Attributes

Essential

An able communicator with good counselling and negotiating skills Has developed a high degree of advocacy for women centred care and be able to work autonomously Ability to be able to prioritise own workload Should be able to support new developments in practice with reference to professional, organisational, and clinical needs Evidence of up to date clinical skills supported by ongoing professional development

Aptitude and Personal Qualities

Essential

Must be able to reflect on practice, willing to question and promote evidence-based practice Positive professional approach

Experience

Essential

Minimum of 1 year's post registration experience as a midwife Experience of providing care to low risk women in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period and in supporting high risk women Provision of mentor support to student midwives and nurses, new staff and HCA/support staff in the clinical situation

Desirable

Completion of recognised student assessor training and be experienced in the assessment process of student midwives

Education, Qualifications and Training

Essential

Registered midwife at Degree/Diploma level Evidence of ongoing planned professional development

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