Midwife - Community​/Birth Centre

Excellent Midwives make such a difference to one of the most life changing experiences. We know that our Maternity Department would not be the success it is today without the great team that work for us.

Around 3400 babies a year are born at South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust and we are proud to have been at the forefront of successful service improvements and developments including work with the Department of Health, Better Births and Baby Friendly Initiative.

We are proud of our Bluebell Birth Centre that is the place of birth for around 12 % of our women each year. Our Practice Team Midwives hold a community caseload and undertake low risk intrapartum care in our Birth Centre. We do not have an oncall system.

We have an exciting opportunity for midwives to join one of our Practice teams.

We are looking for individuals with excellent communication, who are enthusiastic, self-motivated and committed to the provision of a high quality service, ideally with a background in community but not essential.

If you're looking to advance your career in a friendly and staff-centred environment, we'd love to hear from you, give one of us a call if you would like more information.

We're looking forward to hearing from you!

Unfortunately we are not supporting any International recruitment at this time.

To work in all areas of Maternity Services at SWFT fulfilling a normal roster pattern, working all shifts throughout the week to provide all aspects of maternity care to mothers and babies.

To ensure the maintenance of high standard of midwifery care at all times.

To act as a lead professional where appropriate in planning and evaluating care in partnership with the woman for both her baby and referring when necessary.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'.

Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

We appreciate you completing the survey.

The main responsibilities and duties are:

• To maintain a professional manner at all times, developing the role of the midwife in the best interests of the profession and the client in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct and Trust Policies.
• To view pregnancy and birth as a normal physiological process, able to assess and respond appropriately escalating any deviation from the norm in a timely manner.
• To use research based practice
• Willingness to innovate or be part of an innovation to improve practice and care
• To promote informed choice and autonomy.
• To provide intrapartum care in a variety in all settings:…