Midwife - Stroud Maternity, Band 6

To participate in shift working in freestanding midwifery led unit an integrated midwifery model.

- To act as shift lead in the absence of a clinical Lead Midwife.

- Be confident in dealing with obstetric emergencies in freestanding birth unit setting.

- Ensure accurate, clear, contemporaneous, legible records are kept with evidence of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care undertaken with the woman and family.

- Be responsible for delivering and maintaining a high standard of day to day, evidence-based practice for all women in the designated clinical area.

- To maintain and continually develop in depth specialist knowledge of midwifery practice

- To engage with women and their families to encourage and promote women centred care, normalising their experience as much as possible.

- Provide support and advice following pregnancy loss.

- Ensure the safe custody of drugs in accordance with the hospital policy and the Midwives Rules and Code of Practice

- Be responsible for the protection of safeguarding of children with an awareness of child protection procedures

- To act as a mentor for student midwives and newly qualified midwives.

Stroud Maternity Unit (SMU)is a freestanding Midwife Led birth Unit providing antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care to families in thriving community of Stroud in Gloucestershire. Stroud Maternity Unit is an integrated model with community midwives based in the unit and working with the core midwifery team to deliver care. SMU offers the opportunity for midwives to develop experience in supporting women and birthing people through physiological birth, but in addition to this, require skills in: presentation scanning, consultant clinics, glucose tolerance testing, antenatal screening, antenatal drop-in clinics and postnatal/breastfeeding support sessions. As a freestanding birth unit, there is also opportunity to develop skills in autonomy and leadership with the support of the wider multidisciplinary team located in the obstetric Unit in Gloucester.