Community Midwife

Community Midwife posts across the Abbey, Cathedral and Severn Valley Community Teams, part of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The work centres on antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care for a named caseload of women and their babies, with leadership, supervision and mentoring of junior staff. Posts mix permanent and fixed-term contracts with varying hours, in a service with a strong home birth record and multiagency working.

Registration as a midwife is required.

• Assess and deliver care programmes across the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods for a named caseload
• Organise midwifery care for assigned patients and manage the caseload autonomously
• Use the full integral and extended skills of a midwife practitioner
• Provide care to bereaved patients and their relatives, including breaking bad news
• Communicate with multidisciplinary professionals and agencies to ensure seamless care
• Take action to keep patients safe, delegate care appropriately and report accidents and incidents
• Ensure midwifery procedures and guidelines follow Trust policy and national guidance
• Supervise and train qualified and unqualified staff, acting as preceptor and mentor to student midwives
• Lead by example, coordinate and allocate work to staff
• Maintain custody of controlled drugs according to statutory procedure
• Keep accurate, contemporaneous midwifery records in line with the Midwives Rules
• Take part in audit and research, and assist the Team Leader with staff performance, appraisal and discipline

• Evidence of further professional development

• NMC registration as a midwife

• Proven experience across all areas of midwifery

• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Evidence-based practice
• Ability to formulate, review and update guidelines, protocols and standards
• Leadership skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to make informed decisions

• DBS check, with cost deducted from salary if offered

• Computer literacy
• Time management skills
• Ability to prioritise workload
• Ability to suture

• Management skills
• Previous experience of working in the community
• Evidence of advanced midwifery studies
• Mentorship training
• NIPE
• Knowledge of computerised maternity systems

• Flexible working, as a Timewise accredited flex positive employer