Community Midwife Team Lead - Continuity of Carer

The Community-based Midwifery Band 7 role focuses on improving services and outcomes for pregnant young parents and their babies. The post holder will manage a dedicated caseload, engage with community organisations, and provide support to young parents while ensuring high standards of care. Key responsibilities include data reporting, advising healthcare professionals, safeguarding, and offering family planning guidance. This role emphasises effective communication and collaboration within acute and primary health care settings, positioning the midwife as a clinical expert and resource for the community.,

• Caseload Management: Responsible for overseeing a caseload of pregnant young parents, ensuring comprehensive and continuous midwifery care throughout their pregnancy.
• Community Engagement: Attend young parent pregnancy forums and establish connections with health, statutory, and voluntary organisations to support young parents effectively.
• Data Collection and Reporting: Provide statistics on the care provided to pregnant young parents and evaluate outcomes to inform service improvements.
• Advisory Role: Offer guidance and information to other midwives and health professionals, promoting engagement with services and ensuring high standards of care for young parents.
• Communication Skills: Utilise excellent communication skills to facilitate participation in young parents' pregnancy groups, addressing sensitive and potentially contentious issues with empathy and professionalism.
• Safeguarding Expertise: Maintain a strong understanding of safeguarding procedures, collaborating with Social Services and contributing to case conferences and strategy meetings as necessary.
• Family Planning Knowledge: Provide informed advice on family planning to assist young parents in avoiding subsequent pregnancies.
• Comprehensive Care Delivery: Deliver midwifery care across acute and primary health care settings, prioritising tasks to ensure efficient and effective service delivery
  
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  MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.
We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre. In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.