Job description
Are you ready for the satisfaction of working in a Continuity Team, working as an autonomous practitioner in control of your day to day work, building positive relationships with the families you are caring for, and being part of a small supportive team of experienced midwives?
We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated midwife to join the fantastic midwives in our Ivy homebirth team.
You will be the named midwife and first point of contact to a specified caseload of women and their families throughout the pregnancy, birth and postnatal period.
You will work with the team to ensure 24/7 homebirth provision and manage your own diary. This will enable you to meet the needs of your caseload whilst creating a work life balance that best suits your individual lifestyle.
We’re looking for people as passionate as we are about providing the best service possible to families in our care. You will inspire confidence and promote our services.
You will be a team player and have excellent communication skills, someone who is great at listening and supporting families to achieve a high quality, positive and safe experience through the development of individualised personalised care and support plans.
This is a permanent post opportunity and also a 12 month mat leave cover opportunity.
This is what Midwife Wendy has to say.....
'just over 3 YEARS of working on the best team.
Knowing and supporting women and birthing people through their journey; that support they trust because they know you and you know their story and have their absolutely best interests at heart.
Feeling like scheduled visits are a pop in for a chat with a friend, oh, and doing an antenatal whilst we're there.
The feeling of absolute overwhelming proudness as you see one of your own thoroughly smash birth after many anxious birth chats where you provided evidence based information and supported choice and personalisation.
Supporting a breastfeeding journey through its highs and lows and getting a text 4 months later to say she's still breastfeeding when the odds were against her... YOU facilitated that.
Scheduling my visits around dropping and collecting a teenage grump on school runs and being able to almost guarantee I'll be there for the important things! The teams the best... we've got each other!!
The best bit...
The buzz at 3am when you get the call to say its time!! Literally bouncing out the door in the black of night to meet the little poppet you've watched grow from morning sickness to term plus. We welcome a baby earthside , have another brew, tidy up and leave a brand new arrival safely at home surrounded by love.
In a nutshell, this is what Ivy team is to me and why 3 years on, i have ZERO intention of ever wanting to be anywhere else.
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
If this is not enough…… we have a BIG PLAN to:
• consistently deliver excellent care
• create a great place to work
• deliver value for money
• ensure we are fit for the future
• Develop our staff to be the best they can be
We hope you can you see yourself being part of a dynamic team who really care about your career development, your ideas and your contribution to make our service the best it can be.
Duties to include, but not be limited to:
• Provide professional midwifery care in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) Professional Code of Conduct/Rules and Standards
• Develop innovative approaches to care to meet the needs of women and their families.
• As the named midwife, be accountable and responsible for clinical decision making.
• As the named Midwife, be the first point of contact for women and birthing people and act as the care coordinator to ensure appropriate referrals when required
• Participate and facilitate innovative antenatal education programmes with a focus on increasing confidence in early parenting skills, including infant feeding practices
• Act as an advocate at all times
• Empower women and birthing people to make informed choices about all aspects of their pregnancy, birth and postnatal care
• Participate in governance and risk management activities including attendance at professional groups and meetings, guideline development, reporting of clinical incidents, research, and clinical audit activities.
• Ensure public health principles are embedded in care provided, to contribute to the improvement of each family’s health status
We have a very supportive leadership team who like to listen and encourage your ideas to help continue to make our services the best they can be.
You can chat with Jo Goss our Matron for Midwifery Led Services: joanne.goss@lthtr.nhs.ukor Rebekah Grant our Ivy team leader rebekah.grant@lthtr.nhs.uk to find out more. Their passion and commitment are second to none and we know you will quickly see the impact you will play in our service.
This advert closes on Sunday 4 Feb 2024
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