Core Inpatient Midwife - Band 5 / 6

It is an exciting time to join Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust maternity team. We provide care to around 4300 women per year across two sites at Epsom and St Helier. We pride ourselves in the promotion of women centred care and have well established co-located birth centres in addition to the obstetric led labour wards, fetal medicine and specialist midwifery teams.

We have an established home birth team and pathways in place to look after women with complex care needs. Women and their families using our maternity service consistently report very positive childbirth experiences, we have an active Maternity Voices Partnership and we have a number of improvement projects underway which will further develop our service and workforce.

We have a shared vision for high quality, safe and sustainable maternity services with the SW London and Surrey Heartlands Local Maternity Systems.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for midwives who share our passion for high quality care and experience for women.

We have opportunities now to join our St Helier inpatient core team, and welcome applications from either newly qualified or more experienced band 6 midwives to join our friendly and welcoming team.

You will work on the labour ward and the maternity ward, as well as in our alongside birth centre.

We have a very robust preceptorship programme for newly qualified midwives in addition to many opportunities for in house training and development. We offer a warm, friendly and supportive environment to work in. If you are passionate about being at the forefront of the changes occurring in midwifery services and shaping sustainable quality improvements, we would love to hear from you. This is an excellent opportunity for you to progress in your career and to develop your midwifery skills in a fully supported environment.

Epsom and St Helier

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.