Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 289-SC-2224
- Employer
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Mary Maternity Unit, West Middlesex Hospital
- Town
- Iseworth
- Salary
- £40,701 - £48,054 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Socially Complex 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
An amazing opportunity has arisen for a small team of midwives to care for women and families with socially complex needs; planning and implementing individualised midwifery led care in partnership with the woman and the multidisciplinary team.
You will be working alongside multi professional teams providing the most appropriate care for women whilst breaking down barriers that can inhibit women with socially complex lives accessing high quality maternity care.
To work within the community midwifery teams caring specifically for women and families who have socially complex and/ or safeguarding needs during the antenatal and postnatal period. You will work closely with the Safeguarding Team, as well as the wider Multi disciplinary and inter agency teams.
In accordance with the job description of a band 6 midwife, provide antenatal and postpartum care reporting and deviations from the normal to a more experienced midwife, and respond appropriately to all emergency situations.
This post will be based in both the community and hospital at Queen Mary Maternity Unit in West Middlesex Hospital.
Main duties of the job
To provide evidence based care for women and families with socially complex needs; planning and implementing individualised midwifery led care in partnership with the woman and the multidisciplinary team.
You will be working alongside multi professional teams providing the most appropriate care for women whilst breaking down barriers that can inhibit women with socially complex lives accessing high quality maternity care.
to work within the community midwifery teams caring specifically for women and families who have socially complex and/ or safeguarding needs during the antenatal and postnatal period. You will work closely with the Safeguarding Team, as well as the wider Multi disciplinary and inter agency teams.
In accordance with the job description of a band 6 midwife, provide antenatal and postpartum care reporting and deviations from the normal to a more experienced midwife, and respond appropriately to all emergency situations.
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
- Encourage a holistic, non-stigmatizing approach to socially complex women and their families.
- Work in partnership with other health care professionals and liaise closely with other agencies involved in the provisions of maternity services and seek advice from the Safeguarding Midwives/Team Leader as required.
- Recognise that the vulnerability factors can be interrelated and that parental factors increase vulnerability to child abuse and neglect.
- Work closely with social care and safeguarding team in care planning and assessment of women and families.
- Work closely with Early Help agencies and ensure that women and families are linked into additional support at the earliest opportunity.
- Contribute to pre-birth assessments and case conference ensuring effective sharing of information.
- Work closely with the Community Team Leader, Safeguarding Midwives, Woman’s Lead Consultant Obstetrician, and Consultant Midwife for Safeguarding and Public Health.
- Attend the monthly internal Psychosocial/ safeguarding meetings to give and receive updates on cases.
- Attend case conferences, core group meetings and any other meetings required for the case-load.
- Ensure that robust pre-birth/discharge planning and plan is in place prior to birth in conjunction with the Safeguarding Team.
- Ensure robust information sharing and care planning with primary care teams.
- Attend Postnatal Discharge planning meetings on the postnatal ward for any cases with social care involvement.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- First degree in Midwifery or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of post qualification education activity
- Mentorship qualification
- Evidence of safeguarding post qualification education
Experience
Essential criteria
- Completion of a preceptorship programme or equivalent, with evidence of working in a variety of settings
- Evidence of applying current research to practice
- Relevant clinical experience
- Excellent organisational skills
Desirable criteria
- Managerial experience
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
- Sarah Green
- Job title
- Consultant Midwife Public Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07771334490
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