Job summary
Employer heading
Community Midwife
NHS AfC: Band 6
About our Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
Our nearly 7,000 members of staff are proud to care for a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, including our award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for—our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in the domains of safe, effective, caring and responsive, and 'Outstanding' in the domains of well-led and use of resources.
Our facilities are among the best in the country. We invest around £10m a year in our estate and have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster. Works commence in spring 2024 on an ambitious £80m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at our West Middlesex site.
Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for the position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.
Job overview
Queen Mary Maternity Unit, West Middlesex Hospital site
Working within a team of midwives to provide 24 hour provision of a high quality, effective midwifery service, providing expert clinical midwifery advice to women/birthing people and their families in your care.
Giving high quality continuity of care for low risk, uncomplicated pregnancies, in partnership with women, plan and implement individualised midwifery-led care packages.
Main duties of the job
- To observe NMC rules and guidance, ensuring these are adhered to by all staff. To foster and develop a working environment within which midwives can work as autonomous practitioners, accountable for their practice and in accordance with the NMC Rules and Code of Practice (2015).
- To develop trust policies and protocols pertaining to midwifery practice and maternity care.
- Implement Trust and local policies and contribute to any proposed changes to midwifery working practices or procedures.
Working for our organisation
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Be an autonomous practitioner providing clinical leadership and expertise in all aspects of midwifery practice, which includes providing, direct care to women/birthing people.
- Work autonomously within a community team giving high quality antenatal, labour and postnatal care to women/birthing people in a dedicated team.
- Facilitate the development of all staff including junior medical staff and support workers through teaching and empowerment.
- Assess, develop, implement and evaluate the highest standards of care based on evidenced-based practice.
- Promote the physiological labour and birth process supporting both women and staff to achieve this.
- Ensure good communication between staff, women, birthing people and their families, providing an immediate and effective response in dealing with issues such as bereavement support, anxiety or complaints.
- Liaise effectively with other departments and other agencies as required ensuring an efficient service for women and birthing people.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
Person specification
Essential and desirable
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Midwifery diploma/degree/ experience
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Demonstrate and ability to apply research to practice and support changes in practice
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship qualification
- NIPE
- NILS
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Angela Horler
- Job title
- Community Midwifery Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07741704501
List jobs with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Nursing and Midwifery