Job summary
Do you have significant midwifery experience? Are you confident to work autonomously?
Is providing holistic midwifery care that promotes maternal and family wellbeing important to you? If so, we would love you to join our dynamic team at the award-winning Lewisham Birth Centre, on a 12 month secondment, where we are 100% focused on providing client centred care?
We are looking for enthusiastic team members, to help us to promote safe, compassionate care whilst working with women / birthing people and their families to provide care that puts them at the heart of everything we do. You could help us do this!
Do you think the birthing environment makes a difference to women and birthing people in labour and their positive birth experience? Would you like to come and find out with us? We work in a beautiful state of the art birth centre and want to offer you the chance to be part of a supportive team and have a role that is full of variety.
Believing that the birthing environment makes a difference to women and birthing people in labour we offer care in a beautiful home-from-home style birth centre. You now have a chance to be part of an autonomous, knowledgeable, supportive team in a role that is full of variety through the provision of labour and postnatal care.
The Birth Centre is proud to report that it regularly receives 100% satisfaction rates through the Friends and Family Test from clients and families accessing their care.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to provide the full remit of midwifery care for women and birthing people on the Birth Centre, primarily intrapartum care. You will have a philosophy that is client centred, promotes choice and actively uses approaches to put women and birthing people at the centre of care, ensuring they get the birth of their choice by working in partnership. The role also has opportunities to be involved in audits and the provision of antenatal education.
You will work within a small team including maternity support workers to provide care for women, birthing people and their families.
You will be expected and encouraged to teach and supervise student midwives.
You will be designated to take charge of a ward area in the absence of the person who has continuing responsibility.
You will primarily work in the birth centre but may be asked to provide assistance in all clinical areas to cover service needs and demands at times of escalation.
About us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be required to provide the full remit of midwifery care for
women on the Birth Centre, primarily intrapartum care. The post holder should have a philosophy that is women centred, promotes choice and actively uses approaches to keep birth normal.
Midwives will work within a small team including maternity support workers to provide appropriate care for women and their families.
The teaching and supervision of student midwives is expected and encouraged.
The post holder will be designated to take charge of a ward area in the absence of
the person who has continuing responsibility.
The post holder is expected to work in the birth centre but can be asked to
rotate between all clinical areas to cover service needs and demands at times
of escalation.
Short listing to be held: TBC
Testing to be held: Virtual
Interviews to be held: TBC
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be required to provide the full remit of midwifery care for
women on the Birth Centre, primarily intrapartum care. The post holder should have a philosophy that is women centred, promotes choice and actively uses approaches to keep birth normal.
Midwives will work within a small team including maternity support workers to provide appropriate care for women and their families.
The teaching and supervision of student midwives is expected and encouraged.
The post holder will be designated to take charge of a ward area in the absence of
the person who has continuing responsibility.
The post holder is expected to work in the birth centre but can be asked to
rotate between all clinical areas to cover service needs and demands at times
of escalation.
Short listing to be held: TBC
Testing to be held: Virtual
Interviews to be held: TBC
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- NMC approved Practice Assessor / commitment to complete training when appropriate
Desirable
- BSc Honours or MA/MSc (or working towards)
Experience
Essential
- Significant Post Registration experience
- Be proficient in the use of natural methods of pain relief including Hydrotherapy.
- Ability to assess and plan care for women in all aspects of midwifery care.
- Evidence of ability to take charge in the absence of their direct Line Manager.
- Knowledge of how to access emergency services in both hospital and community setting.
- Can interpret CTGs and identify features which deviate from accepted parameters of normality.
- Experienced in resuscitation of the newborn.
Desirable
- NLS Provider course
- Examination of Newborn course
- Waterbirth course
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate midwifery skills, underpinned by current evidence. To include: oFetal surveillance and appropriate escalation when deviations occur. oCompetence in keeping birth normal. oCompetent in suturing & cannulation. oCompetent in the promotion of breast feeding
Desirable
- competent in delivering antenatal parent education session/committed to achieve competence within 6 months of appointment.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- NMC approved Practice Assessor / commitment to complete training when appropriate
Desirable
- BSc Honours or MA/MSc (or working towards)
Experience
Essential
- Significant Post Registration experience
- Be proficient in the use of natural methods of pain relief including Hydrotherapy.
- Ability to assess and plan care for women in all aspects of midwifery care.
- Evidence of ability to take charge in the absence of their direct Line Manager.
- Knowledge of how to access emergency services in both hospital and community setting.
- Can interpret CTGs and identify features which deviate from accepted parameters of normality.
- Experienced in resuscitation of the newborn.
Desirable
- NLS Provider course
- Examination of Newborn course
- Waterbirth course
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate midwifery skills, underpinned by current evidence. To include: oFetal surveillance and appropriate escalation when deviations occur. oCompetence in keeping birth normal. oCompetent in suturing & cannulation. oCompetent in the promotion of breast feeding
Desirable
- competent in delivering antenatal parent education session/committed to achieve competence within 6 months of appointment.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
