Job summary
Our community midwives promote normality and the use of alternative therapies for the benefit of all women. If you are looking for the opportunity to work innovatively, using a continuity of carer model, utilising and developing your midwifery skills within a successful community team then this may be the opportunity for you.You must be flexible, having the ability to work across a large geographical area and to participate in our on-call rota and shifts as required to support the hospital, homebirth and the midwifery led unit.

Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for registered midwives to join our Community Midwifery Team for Walsall Healthcare Trust. You will be experienced, enthusiastic and caring and must be able to work autonomously, demonstrating excellent clinical skills to provide effective, individualised women centered care.You will be the named midwife for a designated caseload of women, providing antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care, in the home environment and within midwife led settings, providing one to one care during labour.

About us
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 286,700, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust now has a state-of-the-art Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit facilities. Work is also well underway on its multi-million pound new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre which will house a new Emergency Department (including Children's Emergency Department), co-located Paediatric Assessment Unit, Acute Medical Unit and Urgent Care Centre. This is scheduled for completion this year.

Job responsibilities
Our community midwives promote normality and the use of alternative therapies for the benefit of low-risk women. If you are looking for the opportunity to work innovatively, using a continuity of carer model, utilizing and developing your midwifery skills within a successful community team then this may be the opportunity for you.

Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS - Essential

• Must be able to demonstrate qualification as a Registered Midwife
• Must be able to demonstrate current registration with the NMC in the UK
• must have a full UK licence

EXPERIENCE - Essential

• Must be able to demonstrate full-time midwifery experience (or pro-rata)
• Must have experience of mentoring students

EXPERIENCE - Desirable

• Examination of the Newborn

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE - Essential

• Must have experience of managing a caseload of women
• working within a MDT approach

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE - Desirable

• Experience of caring for women at a home birth or low risk intrapartum care
• experience of working in continuity of care

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

We value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality in our recruitment. We support flexible working for all employees.