Community Midwife | Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
The postholder is responsible to the Matron and the Team leader and will assist him/her to provide a high standard of midwifery care in the community setting. The successful candidate will work in a community team providing care to antenatal women in clinics and postnatal women and their babies
The postholder will be expected to carry out all relevant forms of midwifery care and will supervise other midwives, preceptors, maternity assistants and students as necessary
Community Midwife- Band 6 : 30hours/week
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work.When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
At Epsom and St Helier we pride ourselves in offering flexible working arrangements, a robust in service training package, appropriate ratios for statutory supervision of midwives and a positive working culture.
We are looking recruit a Band 6 midwife at St Helier hospital site into one of our three community midwifery teams. If you want to work in community, this is an excellent opportunity for you to support antenatal women through their pregnancy journey in the community and to delivering postnatal care to women at home/ postnatal clinics during the postnatal period.We use Badgernet to document our care and we are a BFI Gold accredited Trust
If you are interested and would like to know more information then please contact me to discuss further, I look forward to speaking to you.
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Community Midwife role. Please contact me to discuss the role
This advert closes on Friday 4 Oct 2024