Continuity Of Carer Midwife - Band 6

Job summary

We are looking for a passionate midwife to join our Sleaford CoCos Team.

Do you want to be outstanding and deliver the best possible Maternity care for everyone, every day and achieve that great work life balance every midwife strives for? Then this job is for you!

This is a part time position.

Main duties of the job

We are looking to welcome a new midwife to our established team working within the Continuity of Carer model of care. We would be excited to consider applications from midwives who consider themselves to be highly motivated and innovative with a passion for personalised care. We provide maternity care for women who live within the Sleaford area, to include antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care.

The Sleaford midwifery team are a small, but very supportive, friendly team who would welcome any new team member. We would be happy to consider a personalised package to enable a positive and successful integration into our established team for the right candidate.

Currently the Continuity teams provide an on call rota to provide Intrapartum care to women on their caseload and to support the wider homebirth service across the community areas. We cover days and nights on call for the women in our caseload. Weekend working is required.

Continuity of Carer way has demonstrated a better work life balance for midwives who work within the model.

About us

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Pilgrim Hospital is situated beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).