Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a clinically experienced midwife to lead an innovative, newly re-modelled home birth service, with an element of flexible and on-call working.
As part of our Maternity Transformation work with Continuity of Carer, we are expanding our home birth service provision to enable us both to increase our case-loading capacity, whilst improving work life balance and job satisfaction for midwives.
We are looking for a highly motivated, clinically experienced and forward thinking team leader to help develop the team and build on their existing success. You will need a passion for supporting birthing people's choices and continuity of carer. You will support the team in providing antenatal and postnatal care as named midwives for their own caseload of women. You will also participate in rostered on-call intrapartum care for home birth and a 'Domino scheme' for women booked under the Crocus team.
Main duties of the job
Main duties consist of:
- Providing antenatal and postnatal care to a case load of birthing people with mixed risk
- Performing risk assessments which include home assessments and care planning throughout the birthing person's care
- Ensuring collaborative working with birthing people and their families to ensure they have informed choice about their care
- Multi-Disciplinary Team working to ensure appropriate and timely referrals to specialist services
- Ability to work on IT equipment such as laptops using excel and Cerner
About us
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 4,100 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.
Our main hospital site, Croydon University Hospital is one of the busiest in London. Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon and our Children's Hospital at Home cares for children with long-term conditions without them having to come to hospital.
Across the NHS everyone is working hard to meet growing demand and we're no exception. But with the right people on board, we are rising to this challenge, putting our people in the driving seat, encouraging innovation and transforming our services to give local people the quality of care they deserve. Croydon Health Services puts a great deal of importance on education and training. Croydon University Hospital plays an active role in training the clinicians of the future and works in partnership with major London universities
If you want the opportunity to have a real impact, challenge yourself and be part of an NHS Trust then a career at Croydon Health Services could be just what you're looking for.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role, alternatively you can contact the recruiting manager Eviah Mutsinze.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role, alternatively you can contact the recruiting manager Eviah Mutsinze.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- NMC registered midwife
- BSc in Midwifery
- Evidence of professional development
- Assessor/mentorship course or equivalent ALSO/NALS/MOET course
Desirable
- Masters in Midwifery, or evidence of working towards
- Professional Midwifery Advocate
- Managerial/ Leadership qualification and / or experience
- NIPE trained
Knowledge and understanding
Essential
- Awareness and understanding of current national and local midwifery agendas (Maternity transformation, CNST, 5 times more likely campaign)
- Managerial/ Leadership qualification/experience
- Knowledge of clinical governance and risk management (SI, Datix, RCA's)
- Understanding systems of MDT approach in midwifery, especially the need for croydons demographics
Desirable
- Aware of recent research that informs knowledge or practice
- Understands how national inititives such as SBLCBV2 and CNST impact midwifery
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post registration clinical experience
- Experience of homebirths and working both in hospital and in community
- People management experience
Desirable
- Formal teaching practice in the class room
- Experience of implementing change management
- Guideline and policy development
- Clinical Audit and presentation of results
- Evidence of implementing change through practice development and training
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
- Clinical skills appropraiate to intrapartum care within the home setting
- IT skill-awareness of data quality issues, can use excel
- Ability to give and receive constructive feedback
Desirable
- The ability and awareness of how to challenge poor/unsafe practice
- Teaching and presentation skills
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- NMC registered midwife
- BSc in Midwifery
- Evidence of professional development
- Assessor/mentorship course or equivalent ALSO/NALS/MOET course
Desirable
- Masters in Midwifery, or evidence of working towards
- Professional Midwifery Advocate
- Managerial/ Leadership qualification and / or experience
- NIPE trained
Knowledge and understanding
Essential
- Awareness and understanding of current national and local midwifery agendas (Maternity transformation, CNST, 5 times more likely campaign)
- Managerial/ Leadership qualification/experience
- Knowledge of clinical governance and risk management (SI, Datix, RCA's)
- Understanding systems of MDT approach in midwifery, especially the need for croydons demographics
Desirable
- Aware of recent research that informs knowledge or practice
- Understands how national inititives such as SBLCBV2 and CNST impact midwifery
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post registration clinical experience
- Experience of homebirths and working both in hospital and in community
- People management experience
Desirable
- Formal teaching practice in the class room
- Experience of implementing change management
- Guideline and policy development
- Clinical Audit and presentation of results
- Evidence of implementing change through practice development and training
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
- Clinical skills appropraiate to intrapartum care within the home setting
- IT skill-awareness of data quality issues, can use excel
- Ability to give and receive constructive feedback
Desirable
- The ability and awareness of how to challenge poor/unsafe practice
- Teaching and presentation skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
