Job summary
Employer heading
Community Midwife
Band 6
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
Community Midwife - Band 6
The postholder is responsible to the Matron and the Team leader and will assist him/her to provide a high standard of midwifery care in the community setting. The successful candidate will work in a community team providing care to antenatal women in clinics and postnatal women and their babies
The postholder will be expected to carry out all relevant forms of midwifery care and will supervise other midwives, preceptors, maternity assistants and students as necessary
Main duties of the job
Community Midwife- Band 6
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
At Epsom and St Helier we pride ourselves in offering flexible working arrangements, a robust in service training package, appropriate ratios for statutory supervision of midwives and a positive working culture.
We are looking recruit a Band 6 midwife at Epsom hospital into one of our two community midwifery teams. If you want to work in community, this is an excellent opportunity for you to support antenatal women through their pregnancy journey and to delivery postnatal care to women at home/ clinics during the postnatal period. We use Badgernet to document our care and we are a BFI Gold accredited Trust
If you are interested and would like to know more information then please contact me to discuss further, I look forward to speaking to you.
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Community Midwife role. Please contact me to discuss the role
Person specification
Questions based
Essential criteria
- Qualifications
Desirable criteria
- Extra professional training
previous experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical
Desirable criteria
- previous clinical experience
questions
Essential criteria
- Scenario questions
Desirable criteria
- clinical based questions
Questions
Essential criteria
- Equality & Diversity questions
Desirable criteria
- Team working based question
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
- Mary Willocks
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07741078982
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