Homebirth Team Midwife

Job summary

Are you a Band 6 midwife looking for an exciting change?

Does providing women with care throughout their pregnancy journey as part of an organisation with an outstanding global reputation appeal to you?

Then please apply for a Homebirth Team Midwifery post.

You should be an experienced midwife, able to provide antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care in line with the Homebirth and Continuity of Carer pathway.

At the Birmingham Womens and Childrens Hospital, we strive to be at the forefront of innovative midwifery care. We are a large, friendly tertiary center providing care for over 8000 women a year. Proud to be dedicated to womens healthcare, we are committed to offering choice for the women and their families we provide care for each year. In light of the findings from the birthplace study (2011) Birmingham Womens has set up a home birth service which is based within the community. The homebirth team actively promote home birth and home assessment to low risk women. This service has been running for 6 years and includes specialist home birth midwifery support workers, who are trained to be the second birth attendants.

Currently home births account for around 2.1% of the number of babies born at Birmingham Womens and we want to increase this in the coming years. To do that, we need to make sure that there is a constant route for home birth across our local maternity system and ensure that women can achieve the birth that they want.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting time to join our Homebirth Team as our local maternity system BUMP brings together services in Birmingham and Solihull for the first time to create a world-class maternity and newborn service which supports families through their pregnancy journey. Following the National Maternity review Better Births, it is clear that models of care where women know the midwife who is caring for them throughout their journey has a positive impact on improving safety, clinical outcomes, as well as a better birth experience. All expectant mums should access the same high quality services wherever they live in Birmingham and Solihull whether that is a home birth service, home-from-home birth centre facilities or delivery suites.

If you live within 30 minutes of the hospital, are committed to promoting physiological birth, are innovative, creative and proactive and have at least 12 months post registration experience, which includes recent intrapartum experience, then we would like to hear from you.

Birmingham is a vibrant and exciting city to live. It is in a central location; good transport links provide easy access to the beautiful surrounding countryside and other parts of the UK. Informal visits are most welcome. To arrange an informal visit or if you are interested in talking to us or finding out more about these posts please contact: Dayna Wright, Lead Midwife for Homebirth Team and Continuity of Carer Teams

Email: dayna.wright@nhs.net or Phone: 07772206598

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families.

Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas. Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care. Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Birmingham Womens Hospital Nhs Trust

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

B15 2TG

Employer's website

https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Birmingham Womens Hospital Nhs Trust

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

B15 2TG

Employer's website

https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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