Psychological Wellbeing Midwife

Job summary

As a midwife you will work in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure that women/birthing people with birth related trauma and tocophobia receive the appropriate psychological care and treatment. You will be a link for Salisbury maternity service for the BSW Local Maternity System regarding women psychological wellbeing

You will work cooperatively with existing maternity and trust bereavement services to provide appropriate support to women/birthing persons with grief relating to pregnancy loss.

As a midwife you will act as a lead resource for maternity services with expert knowledge of psychological support for women/birthing people to provide clinical advice, support and training to staff, mothers and babies and other members of the multi-disciplinary team. As part of this role, you will have line management responsibilities and will be expected to be part of the duty manager on-call rota.

Main duties of the job

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk