Birth Choices Midwife

Job overview

Are you passionate about empowering families to make informed decisions about their birth experience?

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Birth Choices Midwife to join our team.

About the Role

As a birth choices midwife, you will:

You will work under the supervision of the consultant midwife to support families in exploring their birth options and creating personalised care and support plans.

Facilitate shared and informed decision-making so families feel listened to and valued.

Provide evidence- based information on all birth options, including elective caesarean section and induction of labour.

Work collaboratively within the Multi-disciplinary team and support the Birth Choices Clinic under the supervision of the Consultant Midwife.

What we're looking for?

• Registered Midwife with current NMC registration
• Strong communication and counselling skills
• Ability to provide unbiased, evidence-based information to support informed choice
• Experience in antenatal care and a commitment to personalised maternity care

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a supportive, multidisciplinary team
• Help share positive birth experiences for families
• Access to professional development and training opportunities

Main duties of the job

The Birth Choices Midwife will support families to explore their options for birth to create a personalised care and support plan. This will be facilitated through shared and informed decision making so that families feel listened to and valued as part of the birth choices process. The midwife will be responsible for providing evidence-based information so that families can make an informed choice about their birth which will include elective caesarean section or Induction of labour.

The Birth Choices Midwife will work as part of the Antenatal clinic team to support the Birth Choices Clinic under supervision of the Consultant Midwife.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder must be a registered Band 6 midwife, with at least 2 years intrapartum care experience

The post holder will communicate with women and their families during antenatal clinic appointments. This will either be facilitated face to face or as a virtual appointment, or as a telephone consultation according to maternal preference. Information about different birth options will be shared, and written information will also be provided to families either via email, hard copy or signposting to appropriate websites.

Knowledgeable in how to source evidence-based information and be able to share this knowledge appropriately with women so they can make an informed decision about their birth.

Experience within the research arena would be desirable.

The role involves being able to impart knowledge about different birth options in an unbiased and clear way. The BRAIN (Benefits, Risks, Alternatives, Intuition, Nothing) acronym will be used to explore different birth options so that women can make an informed choice based on their personal balance of risk and need.

The post holder will assess individual risk and offer advice and information accordingly to support balanced decision making in relation to birth choices.