Continuity of Carer Midwife

Job overview

The successful candidate will be autonomous practitioner as part of continuity of carer teams, taking responsibility for the provision of care throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods for women and babies in the hospital/community setting for a designated caseload.

You will be responsible for the assessment, planning and implementation of care to both high and low risk women in your care.  You will support, supervise and teach staff/students evidence-based client centred care, which is of a high standard, being responsible for ensuring that all care is delivered according to Trust policies and procedures and maintaining associated records of care.

Our Midwives have a passionate philosophy for promoting individualised and high standards of care and birth experiences for all women accessing our Maternity Service.

The Eden Suite Birth Centre consists of five birthing rooms, two with En-suite birthing pools. In addition, a further birthing pool within the Delivery Suite provides individualised, holistic care to high-risk women along with a further eight delivery rooms. We have a stand alone community birth centre staffed by the Highfield Team, concentrating on services in the community setting and homebirths.

We continue to work towards the national agenda for maternity care.  Our midwifery staffing comprises of inpatient, community, and continuity midwives.

Main duties of the job

• Communication and working relationships will be with team members, other teams, women and their families, and other health professionals.
• Actively supports women and their families, through communicating difficult and complex information using a variety of methods to ensure effective understanding.
• Responsible for supporting and counselling women who are pregnant, explaining choices they have in midwifery care.
• Proactively support women who require specialist investigations to monitor the health of their baby, including the provision of antenatal screening advice and counselling.
• Ensure effective communication is maintained between members of the multi-disciplinary team to enable appropriate individuals to be aware of changes to women and families plan of care.
• Ensure information is conveyed to women in a timely and understanding manner using different communication methods to clarify understanding.
• Plans care for women, managing workload that will include antenatal and postnatal clinics and home visiting options, home birth and births in the obstetric and midwifery led units

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for further information about the Continuity of Carer Midwife position available at WUTH.