Midwife | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will be accountable for the overall provision of high midwifery standards of care and provide evidenced based woman centred midwifery care, which can be delivered in a variety of models. The post holder will work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, other agencies and user representatives.

• Promote safe and effective practice
• Enhance women and families experience
• Contribute to the delivery of the operational efficiency of the service and deliver against organisational objectives
• The post holder will provide total midwifery care for both high and low risk mothers within all midwifery environments
• Able to provide the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of maternity care over a 24-hour period.
• The post holder will facilitate on behalf of the team leader the development of midwifery and non midwifery staff and act up in the absence of the team leader
• Be accountable for own actions
• Promote excellent multidisciplinary communication and teamwork
• The post holder will generally have a home base (unless multi site working is preferred and agreed) but at times of escalation may be required to undertake cross-site working to meet the needs of the women across the service.
• To participate in hospital on-calls (currently 4 per year)
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) provides hospital services to around 570,000 people living in Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire, and specialist services to patients from all over the country. We deliver a full range of district hospital services in a variety of locations.

We are looking for enthusiastic and passionate midwives to join our workforce on our Winchester site. We offer excellent education and development opportunities and we are happy to discuss flexible working. We care for nearly 5000 women a year across the trust with births in both of our Basingstoke and Winchester sites, a dedicated homebirth caseloading team and a soon to open, newly refurbished midwifery led birth centre in Andover., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.