Community Midwife

Please note this post is fixed term to cover Maternity Leave

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

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

• Reliability, flexibility, motivation, excellent clinical skills, and a commitment to ongoing learning and development.
• Commitment to delivering high‑quality care and embracing positive change and transformation.
• Provide home birth and births within a birth centre.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner within a multi‑disciplinary team, maintaining good relationships to ensure women receive safe care.
• Provide high‑quality, women‑centred maternity care, effective leadership, optimise teaching opportunities, give support to all grades of staff, and plan and direct activities to provide optimal standard of care.
• Deliver high‑quality maternity education to women and families and give necessary care, advice and supervision throughout the pregnancy continuum.
• Ensure appropriate referral for mother or child to other agencies and specialist midwifery teams.

Experience in community midwifery and birth centre settings; competence in home birth and birth centre operations; strong leadership and teaching skills; ability to work autonomously and within a multidisciplinary team.

The role involves working within the community as an autonomous practitioner across our three main hospitals:
Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, plus various community healthcare premises.

We encourage development opportunities and mandatory training support.

We are working towards becoming a truly inclusive organisation, celebrating inclusion and diversity, and are committed to eliminating discrimination, reducing health inequalities, promoting equal opportunities, and respecting all of our colleagues and patients. We are working hard to enhance the health and wellbeing of our workforce, improving the quality of their working life, and valuing their contribution to high‑quality patient care.

Our Flourish at Work is a big part of that.