Community Midwife for Equitable Health

Job overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic and compassionate Community Midwife for Equitable Health to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of women and birthing people who experience additional vulnerabilities and barriers to accessing maternity care.

Our ambition is to address health inequalities through targeted Community Midwifery support, ensuring that every woman and birthing person receives personalised, accessible and inclusive care throughout their pregnancy and postnatal journey.

Working across a variety of community settings, you will provide tailored antenatal and postnatal care to a caseload of women and birthing people with complex needs, including those seeking asylum, women in prison, teenage parents, those affected by substance misuse, and individuals with significant safeguarding concerns. You will build trusted relationships, promote engagement with maternity services, advocate for those in your care and work to improve outcomes for women, babies and families.

Working closely with safeguarding, perinatal mental health, health visiting, social care and wider multidisciplinary teams, you will play a key role in identifying risk, coordinating care and ensuring women receive the support they need at the right time. You will contribute to the development of equitable care pathways, support the implementation of the Maternity Disadvantage Tool and champion initiatives that reduce health inequalities across our communities.

Main duties of the job

• Manage a defined caseload of women and birthing people with complex social, safeguarding and health needs, including those seeking asylum, women in prison, teenage parents, those affected by substance misuse, and individuals requiring enhanced support.
• Build trusting relationships and work proactively to promote engagement with maternity services, ensuring women and families receive the right care, at the right time, from the right professionals.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised programmes of care, coordinating support throughout pregnancy and the postnatal period to improve outcomes for women, babies and families.
• Work closely with the Named Midwife for Safeguarding, Perinatal Mental Health Team, Health Visitors, Social Workers, Obstetricians and wider multidisciplinary teams to ensure joined-up care and effective information sharing.
• Identify, manage and escalate safeguarding concerns appropriately, communicating and documenting complex and sensitive information in line with local and national guidance.
• Champion equity, inclusion and personalised care, supporting the implementation of initiatives and tools designed to address maternity disadvantage and reduce health inequalities.
• Work autonomously within local policies, national guidance and the NMC Code, using professional judgement to support women with complex and often challenging circumstances.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is an exciting time to join our maternity teams across York and Scarborough. Following our recent CQC inspection, maternity services at both York and Scarborough were rated Good across all five domains—Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led. This achievement reflects the dedication, compassion and professionalism of our workforce, and our commitment to listening to women, families and colleagues to continually improve the care we provide.

You will be joining a service that has made significant progress and is proud of what has been achieved, while recognising there is still more to do. We are committed to continuous learning, innovation and improvement, building on strong foundations to shape the future of maternity care across our Trust.

This is an opportunity to be part of that journey—joining a forward-looking team that values collaboration, ambition and the voices of women, families and staff as we continue to develop and strengthen our services for the future

A full description of the role is available in the attachment: job description.

Please note that if a high number of applications are received this advert may close early. You are advised to submit your application at the earliest opportunity.

Working for the Trust

Across our organisation, people are guided by values that were co-developed with staff: we are kind; we are open; and we pursue excellence.

Our values play into our ambition to develop a more diverse workforce, truly representative of our communities. We welcome applications from everyone, while working with our Staff Networks - including our Race Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability and Carers Networks - to increase the number of applications we receive from different backgrounds. If there is anything we can do to make our application process more accessible to you, please contact: yhs-tr.recruitment@nhs.net.

As part of seeking to become more inclusive, we will consider requests for flexible working from the start of your employment. It may not be suitable for every role, but we will try and be supportive where we can. We would encourage you to speak to the recruiting manager named within this advert to discuss any requirements you may have.

Armed Forces Friendly Employer

We are holders of the Gold Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britain’s Reservists and Employers. This means that we have made a statement of intent to support all Defence personnel, including with applications for employment.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.