Community Midwife
Job overview
Join Our Team: Community Midwives Positions Available
The NCA is excited to announce openings for midwives to join our friendly and supportive community midwifery team. We are seeking dedicated professionals to provide exceptional care within the full spectrum of community midwifery services.
Opportunities Available:
- We offer both full and part-time positions that encompass the complete range of community midwifery care
- Part-time roles can be tailored to accommodate individual needs, providing a flexible approach to working hours that supports midwives in achieving a work-life balance
If you are passionate about delivering compassionate care and want to make a difference in the community, we invite you to apply to join our dynamic team.
Main duties of the job
We are recruiting dedicated midwives to provide comprehensive antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care within a community setting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver high-quality midwifery care during antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods in the community, ensuring the highest standard of care for women and their families through efficient use of available resources
- Promote equality, diversity, and rights for women and families throughout their care journey
- Assess the health and wellbeing needs of women and babies, particularly when those needs are complex
For detailed information about the role, please refer to the uploaded Job Description. If you are passionate about providing exceptional care in a community setting, we encourage you to apply and be part of our dedicated team
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered Midwife
- Ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Degree or Diploma in Midwifery
- Full UK driving license with willingness to use own car for work purposes
Knowledge, Skills
Essential criteria- Excellent Communication Skills
- IT Skills
- Evidence of CPD
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.
We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met).As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact [email protected]
For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will be only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.
In applying for this post, you give the Trust permission to use your data for recruitment purposes.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should we receive sufficient applications or if it is filled via the internal redeployment process.
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