Job Description
Job overview
The Forest Community Midwives team has an opportunity available for an experienced community midwife to join their team. You will provide midwifery care, coordinate and develop services provided to pregnant women and babies and provide effective leadership within the maternity team.
You will work collaboratively with the other multi-disciplinary team members and will be actively involved in client/family education, supporting midwives and GPs to provide on-going antenatal and postnatal care and planning care for clients.
Main duties of the job
- Provide individualised, women centred care for women
- Provide continuity of care with emotional and psychological support during the antenatal and postnatal periods in the community. The trajectory is that this will also include intrapartum care when the team is able to move to a continuity model.
- Liaise appropriately with services to ensure safe and effective care is provided to women at the right place, and at the right time. Act as an advocate for women, whilst safeguarding her and her wider family and social group when required
- Provide high quality, evidence-based care and advice to women
- Enhance the woman's experience of care and ensure that the needs of the woman are placed at the centre of care
- Have an understanding of barriers that impact or inhibit women from accessing antenatal care
- Advocate for women in their choices surrounding pregnancy and birth
- Ensure safe and effective clinical practice ensuring knowledge, skills and competencies are current
- Act as a clinical expert to disseminate specialist skills and knowledge
- Share highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and high experience
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) is proud to care for the communities of West Essex, delivering safe, compassionate, and high-quality services. We are part of the Neighbourhood Wave—a national programme that’s changing how care is delivered by focusing on prevention, early support, and more joined-up services across health, social care, and the voluntary sector.
This means we’re working more closely with local partners to bring care closer to home and support people to live healthier, more independent lives.
We’re a supportive and inclusive organisation that values its people. We offer development opportunities, flexible working, and a strong focus on wellbeing. As a Disability Confident and equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences.
Join us and help shape the future of care in West Essex.