Community Midwife
The closing date is 16 June 2025
Job summary
Are you a passionate and dedicated Registered Midwife looking for an exciting new challenge? We invite you to join our progressive and compassionate Maternity Services team at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB). We currently have Band 6 Midwife positions available across our Community Midwifery Service in Derbyshire.
About Us:
Our Maternity Servicesare designed with the woman, baby, and family at the heart of everything we do. At UHDB we birth 700babies across both sites and with our Homebirth Service per month, providing high-quality, personalised care to a diverse population with varying medical and social needs. You will have the opportunity to work alongside a highly skilled team of Specialist Midwives, Consultant Midwives, and the wider Multi Professional team, gaining invaluable experience in supporting women through normal pregnancies, physiological births, and complex pregnancies.
You should hold a full UK driving license.
Main duties of the job
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Our Community Midwifery teams are GP caseload holding, providing antenatal and postnatal care, as well as supporting a 24-hour homebirth service. Each midwife has an allocated caseload, and we maximise locality working by utilising children's centres, community hospitals and public buildings.
- Our Community midwifery service supports a wide geographical area There are 7 community teams based across Staffordshire and Derbyshire as well 2 continuity of carer teams. Community midwives benefit from working within small, well-led teams. We also provide care to the women housed in the Foston Prison Service.
- We are looking for midwives who have the ability to assess and plan care for women in all aspects of midwifery care with awareness and knowledge of vulnerable adult and child protection procedures. Who can also demonstrate midwifery skills underpinned by current evidence, to include suturing, venepuncture, perineal repair and have experience of caring for women in low risk settings including home births and waterbirths.
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We can offer posts within community and welcome candidates who may wish to consider a dual contract between community and acute midwifery services. We are also able to offer family friendly flexible working arrangements with full time or part time hours.
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This position will include On-Call, Weekend and Night working obligations.
Closing date of applications: 16 June 2025
Date of interview: 09 July 2025
About us
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
- Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
- On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
- Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
- We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
- We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
- An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
- Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
- Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
- We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
- We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
- UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
Details
Date posted
02 June 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year pro rata pa
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
320-W&C-1032
Job locations
Royal Derby Hospital
Uttoxeter Road
Derby
DE22 3NE
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Derby Hospital
Uttoxeter Road
Derby
DE22 3NE
Employer's website
https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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