Specialist Midwife Birth in Mind

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent post to join Doncaster and Bassetlaw Foundation trust as the lead Birth in Mind Midwife. This role is to develop and embed the Birth in Mind service for women presenting with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms following childbirth., To provide support and highly specialised advice to women, to co-ordinate their care pathway within maternity, the wider multi-disciplinary team and outside agencies. Education and training will be a key aspect of the role to ensure that relevant staff working across the Trust are competent and confident to support and signpost women appropriate mental health services.

The post-holder will work alongside the Psychology service to provide a stepped care model for women who appraise their birth experience as negative or traumatic to access support. They will work collaboratively with the maternity and psychology team to provide continuous evaluation of the service model and outcomes.

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.

At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.

As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:o Extensive range of learning opportunitieso NHS Pension Schemeo Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditionso Comprehensive health and wellbeing supporto NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemeo Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.