Job summary
Are you a midwife with a passion to support women on their maternity journey, in the community? Then we would love you to come and join our team at St Peters.
Here at St Peters our Community Midwifery teams have various working pattern opportunities to support you to work within our supportive and friendly community teams. We want you to be able to provide antenatal care, support the homebirth service and provide postnatal care to the birthing population & their families whilst maintaining a good work life balance.
We want to empower you to practice in an autonomous manner, managing your workload to deliver person centred care to women and their families to meet their individual needs. You will have a close relationship with your team and will work in partnership with external agencies and the wider multidisciplinary team.
As a community midwife you will have the opportunity to support and educate women around birth choices and ensure they have up to date evidenced based information to help guide their decision making process.
We welcome applications from anyone with a keen interest in community care and encourage you to apply.
Please see attached Maternity Department booklet!
Main duties of the job
We have 3 community teams covering a wide area and caring for a diverse cohort of women with differing needs. We work within a number of different settings including GP surgeries, maternity hubs, family centres and individuals' homes.
You will work with families from a variety of backgrounds providing them with care throughout their pregnancy journey working as an autonomous practitioner. You will lead and co-ordinate the clinical activities of the midwifery team in their area particularly in line with Government initiatives and Trust Strategy.
You will be demonstrating your leadership through participating in the restructure of community and homebirth services: influencing, empowering, motivating and supporting staff. Being responsible for the performance management of those in you team.
As part of quality improvement initiatives you will be reviewing clinical incidences and initiating action to minimise risks within the service. You will also be expected to work as manager on-call/bleep holder within your role and be part of the community on-call rota.
About us
Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.
We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with our strong commitment to staff health and wellbeing. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.
Please see the supporting links which you can find on the right-hand side of this job advert. There is guidance on how to make an application on NHS Jobs as well as more information about joining the ASPH Team
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Lead and co-ordinate the clinical activities of the midwifery team in their area particularly in line with Government initiatives and Trust Strategy.
- Participate in and contribute to recruitment, selection and retention of staff within the department.
- Influence and empower through motivating and supporting staff.
- Will be responsible for the appropriate deployment of staff and effective time management including working as manager on-call/bleep holder
- In the event of short notice sickness/absence etc, will ensure that appropriate measures are taken to ensure the shifts are covered as required.
- Will review clinical incidences and initiate action to minimise risks within the service.
- Will participate in the preparation of orientation programmes and supervise/support new staff.
- Responsible for monitoring and control of sickness absence within their team and taking appropriate action to minimise same.
- Responsible for the performance management of individual team members
- Responsible for safe maintenance and storage of equipment, ensuring all team members can use the equipment safely and effectively.
- Foster a proactive approach to handling conflict, grievances and complaints. Will anticipate and manage complaints as they arise and take action to prevent recurrence.
- Work in partnership with Midwifery Leadership team on professional and organisational issues and lead in the implementation of new practices as required.
- Liaise with IT lead midwife to fully utilise electronic patient record for maternity.
- Support the development of Antenatal Education
- Be part of the community on-call rota as part of the maternity escalation policy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Lead and co-ordinate the clinical activities of the midwifery team in their area particularly in line with Government initiatives and Trust Strategy.
- Participate in and contribute to recruitment, selection and retention of staff within the department.
- Influence and empower through motivating and supporting staff.
- Will be responsible for the appropriate deployment of staff and effective time management including working as manager on-call/bleep holder
- In the event of short notice sickness/absence etc, will ensure that appropriate measures are taken to ensure the shifts are covered as required.
- Will review clinical incidences and initiate action to minimise risks within the service.
- Will participate in the preparation of orientation programmes and supervise/support new staff.
- Responsible for monitoring and control of sickness absence within their team and taking appropriate action to minimise same.
- Responsible for the performance management of individual team members
- Responsible for safe maintenance and storage of equipment, ensuring all team members can use the equipment safely and effectively.
- Foster a proactive approach to handling conflict, grievances and complaints. Will anticipate and manage complaints as they arise and take action to prevent recurrence.
- Work in partnership with Midwifery Leadership team on professional and organisational issues and lead in the implementation of new practices as required.
- Liaise with IT lead midwife to fully utilise electronic patient record for maternity.
- Support the development of Antenatal Education
- Be part of the community on-call rota as part of the maternity escalation policy.
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential
- Registered and practising midwife
- Mentorship qualification
- Evidence of significant post registration experience
- UK driving licence
- Community midwifery experience
- Knowledge of current national policy relevant to maternity services
- Communicate effectively to ensure high standards of care
- Ability to travel between sites
- Ability to be flexible for the needs of the Trust
- Awareness of Trust vision, values and strategic objectives
- Ability to provide a customer focused service
Desirable
- Experience of leading change management
- Leadership training
essential
Essential
- knowledge and awareness of Human Rights
Desirable
- Leadership skills and training
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential
- Registered and practising midwife
- Mentorship qualification
- Evidence of significant post registration experience
- UK driving licence
- Community midwifery experience
- Knowledge of current national policy relevant to maternity services
- Communicate effectively to ensure high standards of care
- Ability to travel between sites
- Ability to be flexible for the needs of the Trust
- Awareness of Trust vision, values and strategic objectives
- Ability to provide a customer focused service
Desirable
- Experience of leading change management
- Leadership training
essential
Essential
- knowledge and awareness of Human Rights
Desirable
- Leadership skills and training
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).
