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Trosolwg o'r swydd

Are you a midwife with a passion to support women on their maternity journey, in the community? Then we would love you to come and join our team at St Peters.

Here at St Peters our Community Midwifery teams have various working pattern opportunities to support you to work within our supportive and friendly community teams. We want you to be able to provide antenatal care, support the homebirth service and provide postnatal care to the birthing population & their families whilst maintaining a good work life balance.

We want to empower you to practice in an autonomous manner, managing your workload to deliver person centred care to women and their families to meet their individual needs. You will have a close relationship with your team and will work in partnership with external agencies and the wider multidisciplinary team.

As a community midwife you will have the opportunity to support and educate women around birth choices and ensure they have up to date evidenced based information to help guide their decision making process.

It is an exciting time for St Peters as we are currently reviewing our home birth service and welcome applications for candidates with a desire to work in a homebirth setting.

We welcome applications from anyone with a keen interest in community care and encourage you to apply.

Please see attached Maternity Department booklet!

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

We have 3 community teams covering a wide area and caring for a diverse cohort of women with differing needs. We work within a number of different settings including GP surgeries, maternity hubs, family centres and individuals' homes.

You will work with families from a variety of backgrounds providing them with care throughout their pregnancy journey working as an autonomous practitioner. You will lead and co-ordinate the clinical activities of the midwifery team in their area particularly in line with Government initiatives and Trust Strategy.

You will be demonstrating your leadership through participating in the restructure of community and homebirth services: influencing, empowering, motivating and supporting staff. Being responsible for the performance management of those in you team.

As part of quality improvement initiatives you will be reviewing clinical incidences and initiating action to minimise risks within the service.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with our strong commitment to staff health and wellbeing. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

Please see the supporting links which you can find on the right-hand side of this job advert. There is guidance on how to make an application on NHS Jobs as well as more information about joining the ASPH Team

Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.