# Community Midwife - Mat cover

**Company**: Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
**Location**: Dartford
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £41957.00 to £50387.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking Band 6 midwives to join our community midwifery teams. As a forward-thinking and innovative maternity unit, we can offer exciting and excellent opportunities for your midwifery career development. Our Maternity Unit currently supports 5,000 births a year serving women living in the areas of Dartford, Gravesham, Swanley, and Bexley divided amongst 7 Community Midwifery teams.

The successful candidate will be competent and confident at facilitating and supporting normality in childbirth. You will be highly motivated, enthusiastic, experienced, and woman-centred.

Responsibilities:

- General responsibilities

- Clinical Responsibilities

- Managerial responsibilities

- Professional responsibilities

- Education and development responsibilities

For a detailed description of the Job roles and responsibilities, please see the attached job description.

Person Specification:

## Education and Training

### Essential

- NMC Registered Midwife with extensive midwifery experience.

- Qualified driver.

- Evidence of CPD

### Desirable

- Mentorship or appropriate course.

- NIPE trained

## Experience

### Essential

- All-round midwifery experience and be experienced in all required competencies.

### Desirable

- Experience of working within the community setting.

## Knowledge and Skills

### Essential

- Well-developed interpersonal skills, able to communicate effectively at all levels, verbally and in writing.

- Able to function as a practitioner, as well as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

- Have an interest in and the ability to teach and be a mentor for students.

- Able to lead and organise.

- Able to manage a caseload in the community. To take 24-hour responsibility for area of practice including participating in an 'on-call' rota.

- Able to demonstrate good levels of theoretical midwifery knowledge

- A good standard of computer skills

- Ability to adapt to meet changing needs and to work under pressure

- Able to act as the client's advocate.

- Knowledge and an understanding of current Professional issues and initiatives

### Desirable

- Has a knowledge of the principles / recommendations of current professional issues

- A special interest in an aspect of midwifery has been developed.

- Knowledge and experience of handling differing cultural and religious needs

- Knowledge of research methodology.

## Personal Attributes

### Essential

- Ability to present an open and non-judgemental demeanour

- Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.

## Benefits

- Competitive salary: £41,957 to £50,387 a year

- Excellent career development opportunities

- In-house training programme, including advanced fetal monitoring workshop and intensive emergency skills drills workshop

- Affiliated to the University of Greenwich for further education

## Additional Information

- This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

- Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

## Skills

### Required
- NMC Registered Midwife
- Qualified driver
- Evidence of CPD
- Well-developed interpersonal skills
- Multi-disciplinary team work
- Teaching and mentoring
- Leadership and organisation
- Caseload management
- Theoretical midwifery knowledge
- Computer skills
- Adaptability
- Pressure management
- Client advocacy
- Current Professional issues and initiatives

### Nice to have
- Mentorship or appropriate course
- NIPE trained
- Experience of working within the community setting
- Knowledge of current professional issues
- Special interest in midwifery
- Cultural and religious needs handling
- Research methodology

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