Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Community Midwife
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About the Role
This role will be to work within the traditional Community Midwifery Team. You must be able to undertake on-call duties as part of this role.
The successful candidate will be an autonomous practitioner, taking responsibility for the provision of care throughout the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods for women and babies in the hospital/community setting.
You will be responsible for the assessment, planning, and implementation of care to both high and low-risk women in your care. You will support, supervise, and teach staff/students evidence-based client-centered care, which is of a high standard, being responsible for ensuring that all care is delivered according to Trust policies and procedures and maintaining associated records of care.
Our Midwives have a passionate philosophy for promoting individualized and high standards of care and birth experiences for all women accessing our Maternity Service.
The Eden Suite Birth Centre
The Eden Suite Birth Centre consists of five birthing rooms, two with En-suite birthing pools. In addition, a further birthing pool within the Delivery Suite provides individualized, holistic care to high-risk women along with a further eight delivery rooms. We have a standalone community birth center staffed by the Highfield Team, concentrating on services in the community setting and homebirths.
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We continue to work towards the national agenda for maternity care. Our midwifery staffing comprises inpatient, community, and continuity midwives.
Responsibilities
- Communication and working relationships will be with team members, other teams, women and their families, and other health professionals.
- Actively supports women and their families, through communicating difficult and complex information using a variety of methods to ensure effective understanding.
- Responsible for supporting and counseling women who are pregnant, explaining choices they have in midwifery care.
- Proactively support women who require specialist investigations to monitor the health of their baby, including the provision of antenatal screening advice and counseling.
- Ensure effective communication is maintained between members of the multi-disciplinary team to enable appropriate individuals to be aware of changes to women and families' plan of care.
- Ensure information is conveyed to women in a timely and understanding manner using different communication methods to clarify understanding.
- Plans care for women, managing workload that will include antenatal and postnatal clinics and home visiting options, home birth, and births in the obstetric and midwifery-led units.
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About Us
All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as "competent and caring staff" by our patients.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula, which has stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.
We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the Northwest of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high-quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales, and the wider Northwest footprint.
We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide, and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.
The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus, or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester, and Manchester as well as neighboring North Wales.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits, contact:
- Name: Anne Wheeldon
- Job Title: Community Team Lead
- Email Address: annewheeldon@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 07710463091
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