Address Are you looking to work in an award winning, well-supported, friendly, dynamic, culturally astute, inclusive environment that puts women at the centre of a high standard of care? If so, come and join us.
Our latest CQC report has just been published and we have maintained our good rating since 2017 and have now been awarded as outstanding for leadership so, if you are passionate about providing gold-standard care that promotes physiological birth in a low risk environment, then we want you.
Is providing holistic midwifery care that promotes maternal and family wellbeing important to you? If so, we would love you to join our dynamic team at the award-winning Lewisham Birth Centre.
We aim to provide women/birthing people with a safe and positive birth experience recognising this transformative time in their lives. We are looking for an enthusiastic team member to help us promote safe, compassionate care, putting women/birthing people and their families at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to report that we regularly receive 100% satisfaction rates through the Friends and Family Test from clients and families accessing care.
This post is not suitable for newly qualified midwives or international midwives who have not completed their OSCE.
You will be required to provide the full remit of midwifery care for women and birthing people on the Birth Centre, primarily intrapartum care. You will have a philosophy that is client centred, promotes choice and actively uses approaches to put women and birthing people at the centre of care, ensuring they get the birth of their choice by working in partnership. The role also has opportunities to be involved in audits and the provision of antenatal education.
You will work within a small team including maternity support workers to provide care for women, birthing people and their families.
You will be expected and encouraged to teach and supervise student midwives.
You will be designated to take charge of a ward area in the absence of the person who has continuing responsibility.
You will primarily work in the Birth Centre but may be asked to provide assistance in all clinical areas to cover service needs and demands at times of escalation.
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
Improving the experience of staff with disability
Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
Making equalities mainstream
The post holder will be required to provide the full remit of midwifery care for
women on the Birth Centre, primarily intrapartum care. The post holder should have a philosophy that is women centred, promotes choice and actively uses approaches to keep birth normal.
Midwives will work within a small team including maternity support workers to provide appropriate care for women and their families.
The teaching and supervision of student midwives is expected and encouraged.
The post holder will be designated to take charge of a ward area in the absence of
the person who has continuing responsibility.
The post holder is expected to work in the Birth Centre but can be asked to
rotate between all clinical areas to cover service needs and demands at times
of escalation.
Short listing to be held: W/C 25.04.22
Testing to be held: Virtual TBC
Interviews to be held: Virtual TBC
