Job summary
- Main area
- Community Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 151-ED-14-G
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £37,162 - £44,629 pro rata pa incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Community Midwife
Band 6
Job overview
I am Emma Luhr Director of Midwifery at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, and we are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals like yourself, to join our fantastic and supportive expanding team of Midwives within our 5 community hubs across East Berkshire inclusive of Slough, Windsor, Maidenhead and one within the hospital footprint.
We promote homebirths and midwives who would like to give intrapartum care to their women are fully supported. If you are new to the setting Community setting we will support you to grow and develop, offering a full bespoke induction programme to ensure you can deliver safe and exceptional care.
Frimley Health is a great place to work and progress your career in the Midwifery profession. We are the 4th largest trust to deliver maternity services in England, with a dedicated Head of Midwifery at both sites, a team of Matrons and Practice Development team to not only support you, but enable our Midwives, Support Workers to deliver high quality care to all our women and progress the National Maternity Transformation Agenda.
We support flexible working and will consider requests.
Main duties of the job
As a Community Midwife working closely with colleagues in a supportive and learning environment, you will support the development of the community services in line with the National Maternity Review ‘Better Births’.
You will support students and liaise closely with other members of the wider team providing excellent evidence-based care to women from a diverse multicultural background. He or she will provide antenatal and postnatal care for women in the Community Hub, hospital or home settings, facilitating informed choice and being involved in the implementation of a personalised pathway.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Frimley Health offers a relocation package that covers up to £ 8000 of relocation expenses.
If you are currently living more than 20 miles away from Wexham Park Hospital/your community hub (40 miles for return journey), the trust can cover your relocations expenses in order for you to join us in our community hubs.
Further details can be discussed at interview and are based on individual circumstances.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Courage enables us to do the right thing for people we care for, to speak up when we have concerns
- To participate in the planning of off duty rotas
- To participate in the planning of the service within the post holder’s current work area.
- To make effective and efficient use of given resources.
- To be responsible for the use of all Trust equipment
- To comply with all Trust policies and procedures.
- To participate in the Trust’s appraisal review for unqualified staff.
- To apply the Trust values in to all aspects of your work
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
Desirable criteria
- Registered Nurse Qualified mentor
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates clinical skills commensurate with a midwife who has migrated from band 5 to 6
- Demonstrates excellent written and presentation skills
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience in Community
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Monica Warren
- Job title
- Midwifery Matron - Community
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 615 5230
- Additional information
For interview queries, please contact Karin Vandewalle (Recruitment and Retention Midwife), via [email protected] or 0300 615 6601.
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