Midwife Practitioner with An Interest in Antenatal - London, United Kingdom - Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Band 6

This is a unique opportunity to combine working as a core/community midwife with a specialism in Antenatal Education.

We currently have opportunities for experienced band 6 midwives to join the core/community midwifery teams and spend 2 days per rota (if you are working 37 1⁄2 hours/week) working in Antenatal Education.

You will work closely with the MVP as well as the Consultant Midwives and Midwifery Matrons, Specialist Midwives, Clinical Practice Facilitators and Practice Development Midwives (Education Team) to improve communication and information sharing with women.

This will prepare you for a specialist role in:

Antenatal education

You will learn how, amongst other duties to:
Co-ordinate antenatal education for the trust, whilst participating and learning as you go.

Be part of the Specialist team, where you will teach virtual / face to face antenatal classes for women and birthing people in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham Borough.

Be responsible for the administration of arranging and advertising the classes, supporting the development of other midwives with an interest in parentcraft, and delivering the classes.

Be responsible for developing the existing classes relevant to the needs of the service users.

You will be working your clinical hours in the area of your choosing which means that you will be based on either Delivery suite, the Inpatient ward, the Birth Centre/Induction suite or the Community.

As well as carrying out your clinical hours where you will be fully competent in your own abilities to provide good evidence-based care in the area you choose, you will also be able to continue your professional development whilst working 2 days per rota in your specialist role.

Whilst in your speciality role, you will participate in and learn around Antenatal Education for the trust.

This will involve:

Having a flexible commitment to teaching 15 hours per month.
Being comfortable teaching groups online as well as face to face classes.
Being confident with online teaching platforms, whilst being innovative you're your teaching methods.
Maintaining your equipment in good working order and raising any issues in a timely manner.
Answering questions from women and birthing people / members of staff regarding antenatal education.

Our services aim to meet the needs of our local population and we regularly engage with service users to achieve this.

We are involved in Transformation projects with the aim of improving our services to be responsive to the needs of the local population.

Our diverse client population provides us with constant challenges and we strive to deliver the highest standard of care.

We have considerable expertise at caring for women/birthing people with complex and high risk needs and our specialist midwives consistently provide the highest standard of multi agency care.

Our Day Assessment Units have a reputation within the community of delivering high quality, evidence based care.

These services have been developed over the years and are led by a team with a passion for facilitating care to women/birthing people who require additional care during their pregnancies.

Excellent learning opportunities are available via close links with Greenwich and Kings College Universities, enabling continuing professional development.

All staff have access to a salary sacrifice scheme which includes lease car hire.

Please note this advert is for external staff only.

If you are interested in this role or something similar and already work for the trust, please speak to your line manager.

Establish and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups about difficult or complex matters overcoming any problems/barriers in communication.
Develop and maintain Midwifery knowledge and practice by attending and participating in continuing professional development and contribute to the development of others
Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others in own work area
Contribute to the development of services
Contribute to quality improvement
Ensure own actions promote quality and alert other to quality issues. Support people's equality, diversity and rights
Assess people's health and wellbeing needs when those needs are complex and change across the caseload
Plan, deliver and evaluate care pathways to address clients complex and changing health and wellbeing needs
Lead others in the development of knowledge, ideas and work practice
Plan, allocate, assess and provide feedback to team members
Maintain and support the efficient use of physical and /or financial resources
Participate in on call-rota