University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
Community Midwife - Lancaster
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Please note this post is fixed term to cover Maternity Leave
Do you consider caring with compassion to be fundamental to your role?
Looking for a new career path in one of the most picturesque parts of the country?
The Lake District, England's largest National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site would be on your doorstep. This beautiful part of the country would enable you to discover spectacular landscapes, picturesque villages, along with a warm welcome and rich cultural heritage.
Our Trust is recruiting enthusiastic, highly motivated community midwives/birth centre midwives, to join our dynamic, dedicated, forward thinking professional team which serves a wide geographical area with rural and urban communities.
You will need to be reliable, flexible, motivated, have excellent clinical skills, a commitment to ongoing learning and development, a commitment to delivering high quality care, and be willing and open to embracing positive change and transformation in order to meet the demands of the community we serve. You will require the necessary skills and a passion to provide home birth and births within a birth centre.
If this sounds like you, then we want to hear from you!
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Here at Morecambe Bay we are committed to supporting our employees in mandatory training requirements and their professional development.
We would encourage and welcome you to come and have a look beforehand.
The role involves working within the community as an autonomous practitioner within a multi-disciplinary team. It also involves maintaining a good relationship with other members of the team ensuring the women receive safe care.
You will be need to be able to provide high quality women centred maternity care, effective leadership, optimise teaching opportunities and give support to all grades of staff; planning and directing activities to provide the optimal standard of care.
The role involves giving appropriate education to women and their families and giving necessary care, advice and supervision throughout the pregnancy continuum. You will be required to ensure appropriate referral for mother or child, as required to other agencies and specialist midwifery team and to give necessary care advice and supervision to women and their families, wherever possible/appropriate.
We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.
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FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.
We are working towards becoming a truly inclusive organisation by celebrating inclusion and diversity, and are committed to eliminating discrimination, reducing health inequalities, promoting equal opportunities and respect for all of our colleagues and patients.
We are working hard to enhance the health and wellbeing of our workforce, improving the quality of their working life and valuing their contribution to high quality patient care. Our Flourish at Work is a big part of that.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Claire Pearson
- Job title: Community manager RLI
- Email address: claire.pearson1@mbht.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01524583867
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