Job Overview
We are excited to announce an opportunity to join the community midwives at Frimley park Hospital.
We are based over 5 maternity hubs, spanning from Bracknell to Farnham and book approximately 6000 women per year.
We are looking for enthusiastic midwives to help develop the maternity hub service.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will join a Community Midwifery Team working closely with colleagues in a supportive, caring and learning environment.
They will support students and liaise closely with other members of the wider team providing excellent evidence-based care to women from a diverse multicultural background.
They will provide antenatal and postnatal care for women in the Community Hub, hospital or home settings, facilitating informed choice and being involved in the development of a personalised pathway.
We promote homebirths and have an on call service to support the Continuity Homebirth team.
Experience of working in the Community with experience of homebirth is advantageous. Ability to drive essential.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
- Registered Nurse Qualified mentor
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates clinical skills commensurate with a midwife who has migrated from band 5 to 6
- Demonstrates excellent written and presentation skills
Experience
Desirable criteria
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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