Community Midwife - Band 6NHS
Job summary
Wallingford Midwifery Led Unit is part of the Wallingford community hospital. It has a wonderful, homely atmosphere with a birthing pool room for women choosing to birth in the community. There is a small yet dedicated team of midwives and support workers who provide care for birthing people and their families in the surrounding area. Wallingford is a lovely town in South Oxfordshire, ideal for families and ongoing transport links to London and the South coast.
Across Oxfordshire, we have four freestanding birth centres--located in Banbury, Chipping Norton, Wantage, and Wallingford--alongside a homebirth service. Our community birth rate is above the current national average at 5%.
As a member of the Wallingford team, you will join the community on-call rota to support the community birth service, this is a requirement of the role: our high birth rate offers frequent opportunities to attend community births. We also enable staff to take shifts on the main delivery suite if they wish to maintain or broaden their skills and knowledge.
Applicants must have an existing NMC with UK Midwifery experience and have completed their preceptorship in a UK hospital. They must be currently working at a Band 6 level
Main duties of the job
The postholder is required to provide holistic midwifery care to services users across the antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum period within the Wallingford Area and surrounding areas of Oxfordshire. They will provide care in the form of clinic appointments and home visits.
Full and Part Time hours are available. Must be a car driver and have access to a car during the day and for night on-calls. You will be required to work community on-call shifts during the day and night time.
Please see the job description attached.
Please note: This job is primarily based at the Wallingford Community Hospital
Job description
We are looking for a midwife who demonstrates kindness and compassion, and who is passionate about providing community care.
Please see attached job description and person specification. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.