Midwife for Vulnerable Women

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust • Part-time • Birmingham, ENG, GB • £37.34k - £44.96k / year • 1m ago

An exciting opportunity has arisen in The Phoenix Team which is a midwifery team that specialises in providing specialist care for Vulnerable women. This secondment in the team is specifically focused on young parents and the postholder will work alongside the Young Parents lead midwife .The successful applicant will be will be responsible for a cohort of Young Mothers aged 19 and under with specific focus on Mothers aged 17 and under and will be delivering individualised antenatal and Post-natal Midwifery Care supporting Young women and families with a variety of vulnerabilities throughout their pregnancy.

providing antenatal and postnatal care to young parents

providing and promoting parent education

working with multi discliplinary teams and agencies

working in collaboration with local safeguarding teams

making appropriate referrals to other agencies

providing and promoting health education

Act as the Named Midwife for a cohort of young

Work in partnership with other professional colleagues and wider Multiagency partners to care for women with complex needs.

Plan and deliver evidence based midwifery care in partnership with the women to provide a supportive relationship, acting as an advocate for women and their families at all times.

Monitor maternal and fetal well-being in pregnancy.

To monitor and maintain standards of care whilst providing ante natal and post-natal care at venues for example, women's homes, health centre, family practitioner surgery or the hospital

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Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens this year and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH . If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continue your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three strategic objectives:
Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff

Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do

Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives

For further details about what this role entails please see the attached job description and person specification