Community Midwife

Job summary

Community Midwife

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people across the Borough of Hillingdon, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcareour mission is to provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, improving the health and wellbeing of the people we serve.This is an exciting opportunity to join us as a band 6 Community Midwife.The successful post holder will work within an already established team to provide a high standard of personalised and evidence-based care to women/birthing people throughout pregnancy and beyond.

For further information please contact the Community and Antenatal Clinic Manager, Vicky Brown on Vicky.brown13@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will practise as a midwife within the Community maternity services at The Hillingdon Hospital working pro-rata and on-calls.
• The post holder will be part of the well-established Community Midwives teams.
• To deliver care in the Community setting- home visits, Children's Centres
• Occasionally running clinics in the hospital setting.
• To be on-call as the second midwife at homebirths.
• The Midwife is responsible and accountable for their own midwifery practice.
• Plan and deliver evidence-based midwifery care in partnership with the birthing person in the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal period, ensuring liaison with all relevant agencies and escalation to members of the multi-disciplinary team as required.
• To provide antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care, reporting any deviations from the normal to a more senior member of the team.
• Practice within the parameters of both local and national guidance always ensuring compliance with the specific standards set.

About us

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust's services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.

The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this - particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities,community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitalsprovide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.