Integrated Midwife - Band 5/6

Job summary

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated, and committed midwife ready to make a difference? We're looking for passionate midwives to join our integrated midwifery team workforce!

This is your chance to be part of Torbay's nationally renowned and well-established integrated team midwifery model--a true leader in innovative maternity care.

We are dedicated to supporting women to have safe, personalized, and empowering birth experiences. Working closely with the Devon LMS and neighbouring Maternity Units, we ensure every woman in Devon receives the highest quality care.

Our fully integrated teams within the Torbay Maternity Service offer midwives the incredible opportunity to maintain and develop all of their skills in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Band 5 midwives must have completed at least 6 months of a preceptee programme.

Please be mindful that if you are commencing employment in a developmental capacity, you will start at the bottom of Band 5 and progress to a Band 6 once evidence of competencies and qualifications have been achieved.

Main duties of the job

• To assess the full range of care needs and develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period for women and their babies
• To work autonomously within guidelines and sphere of professional practice
• To act as a mentor or practice supervisor for less experienced midwives, students and other members of the multi-professional team
• Work within NMC codes of practice and professional guidelines.
• Lead Professional for low-risk women
• Provide antenatal, intrapartum and post-natal care in a variety of settings, including home and hospital
• Work collaboratively with professional colleagues to provide midwifery care to with women with complex needs
• Contribute with feedback, to ensure the health and social care setting is responsive to the individual needs of women, particularly those who are disadvantaged, and where appropriate, advocate for these women
• Advocate and support the rights of individual women to make informed choices about their care
• Promote equality, diversity and rights
• Participate in and undertake annual appraisal, identifying specific training requirements as part of service planning and continuous personal development

About us

Our fully integrated midwifery teams are meeting the Better Birth recommendations for providing a Continuity of Carer model for women.

We support women in the choice agenda; at least 6% of women we care for choose to birth their baby out of hospital. We work closely with the Devon LMS and our neighbouring Maternity Units to ensure that women in Devon receive high quality care.

We are proud of our commitment to safe and individually focused birth and offering women choice in where to birth their baby.