Obstetric Medicine Continuity Midwife Proud of our workforce

As a Band 6 Obstetric Medicine Continuity Midwife, you will play a crucial role in providing high-quality, personalized care to women with complex medical needs throughout their maternity journey. You will work as part of a continuity of care model, ensuring consistent, individualized support from antenatal through to postnatal stages, with a focus on women who have underlying medical conditions or complex obstetric needs.
You will collaborate closely with obstetricians, physicians, and other multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, evidence-based care, monitoring maternal and fetal health, and ensuring timely interventions when necessary. Your role will also include educating and supporting women and their families, empowering them to make informed decisions about their care. You will be expected to provide leadership and guidance to junior staff and students, maintaining high standards of practice in line with national guidelines and local policies., As a continuity team midwife you will be planning and implementing individualised midwifery led care in partnership with the woman, birthing person and the multidisciplinary team. Using continual assessment and analysis you will provide continuity of carer throughout the woman and birthing person's pregnancy. This may develop into birth and postnatal period also. To ensure her medical, psychological and social needs are assessed and holistically cared for., · Provide high quality, evidence-based care and advice to women throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods from within the hospital site.
· Act as an advocate for women and birthing people, whilst safeguarding her/their wider family and social group where appropriate.
· Have an in depth understanding of barriers which may impact or inhibit women and birthing people from accessing timely and regular antenatal care. Act as a care navigator to ensure timely access to the appropriate pathway is achieved.
· Communicate complex and sensitive information to women, birthing people and their families using empathy and reassurance at times of vulnerability, distress and bereavement.
· Overcome communication barriers where they occur and seek appropriate services to ensure equality and diversity for all women and birthing people under caseload.

Proud of our workforce
· Our 7,500 staff are recruited from local communities and around the world
· Our staff rate us second among acute trusts in London as a place to work
· Despite challenges in the NHS, our low staff vacancy rate remains significantly better than the national average
· We are passionate about the health and wellbeing of our staff with a huge support offer, including our nationally-recognised free back-up care scheme and Timewise accreditation as a flexible employer
· We love to develop our people, offering a range of development programmes and apprenticeships, with our healthcare support worker apprentices winning Apprentice of the Year for two years running
· We offer a fantastic range of salary sacrifice schemes, from season ticket loans, bicycles and vehicles, to gym memberships, home electronics and holidays

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+ Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.