Antenatal Midwife for Kingfisher Team

Job summary

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

This advertisement is specifically for the Kingfisher team based in the Wexham Park Hospital hub. The role mainly consists of conducting antenatal community appointments for out of area patients who are booked at Wexham Park. There is no on call requirement for this team.

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.

About us

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL

Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL

Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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