Community/MLU Midwife

Job summary

Are you committed to providing a safe, high standard of midwifery care? Are you passionate about delivering memorable experiences whilst supporting women, birthing people and their families before, during and after pregnancy and childbirth?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and dedicated midwives to join our team at Wallingford Birth Centre. Our team of community midwives provide antenatal, postnatal and labour care in our freestanding midwife led unit (MLU) as well as homebirth to women in South Oxfordshire. We are passionate about providing safe, effective care to women and their families in their chosen place of birth.

As a community midwife, you will also work closely with the multidisciplinary teams at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, to provide care for those experiencing more high-risk pregnancies.

If you feel like a new challenge, come and join our fabulous community team at Wallingford Birth Centre.

Full and part time hours available.

Main duties of the job

Who we are looking for:

• Compassionate, dedicated and motivated midwives to join our experienced and friendly team
• Midwives who have excellent team working and communication skills and who are well-versed in time management
• Colleagues who put patients at the heart of their day and strive to work collaboratively with them, upholding our role as advocates and champions of women.
• Midwives who think innovatively to increase numbers of MLU/homebirths,

What we offer:

• To work with a welcoming, experienced and supportive group of Midwives
• Ongoing professional development and encouragement to achieve your ambitions
• The opportunity to experience the joys of providing care throughout pregnancy, labour and
• the postnatal period, benefiting from continuous care with your own caseload of patients

Community Midwifery has an on call commitment & it is essential you hold a UK driving licence

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - theJohn Radcliffe Hospital,Churchill HospitalandNuffield Orthopaedic Centrein Headington and theHorton General Hospitalin Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.

Many of our recruitment programmes useValue Based Interviewingto identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visitwww.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values

Employer details

Employer name

Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wallingford Maternity and Birth Centre

Reading Road

Wallingford

OX109DU

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wallingford Maternity and Birth Centre

Reading Road

Wallingford

OX109DU

Employer's website

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

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