Job Description

Do you have significant midwifery experience? Are you confident to work autonomously?



Is providing holistic midwifery care that promotes maternal and family wellbeing important to you? If so, we would love you to join our dynamic team at the award-winning Lewisham Birth Centre, on a 12 month secondment, where we are 100% focused on providing client centred care?



We are looking for enthusiastic team members, to help us to promote safe, compassionate care whilst working with women / birthing people and their families to provide care that puts them at the heart of everything we do. You could help us do this!



Do you think the birthing environment makes a difference to women and birthing people in labour and their positive birth experience? Would you like to come and find out with us? We work in a beautiful state of the art birth centre and want to offer you the chance to be part of a supportive team and have a role that is full of variety.



Believing that the birthing environment makes a difference to women and birthing people in labour we offer care in a beautiful home-from-home style birth centre. You now have a chance to be part of an autonomous, knowledgeable, supportive team in a role that is full of variety through the provision of labour and postnatal care.



The Birth Centre is proud to report that it regularly receives 100% satisfaction rates through the Friends and Family Test from clients and families accessing their care.



You will be required to provide the full remit of midwifery care for women and birthing people on the Birth Centre, primarily intrapartum care. You will have a philosophy that is client centred, promotes choice and actively uses approaches to put women and birthing people at the centre of care, ensuring they get the birth of their choice by working in partnership. The role also has opportunities to be involved in audits and the provision of antenatal education.



You will work within a small team including maternity support workers to provide care for women, birthing people and their families.



You will be expected and encouraged to teach and supervise student midwives.



You will be designated to take charge of a ward area in the absence of the person who has continuing responsibility.



You will primarily work in the birth centre but may be asked to provide assistance in all clinical areas to cover service needs and demands at times of escalation.



Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:



Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development



Widening access (anchor institution) and employability



Improving the experience of staff with disability



Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development



Making equalities mainstream



The post holder will be required to provide the full remit of midwifery care for



women on the Birth Centre, primarily intrapartum care. The post holder should have a philosophy that is women centred, promotes choice and actively uses approaches to keep birth normal.



Midwives will work within a small team including maternity support workers to provide appropriate care for women and their families.



The teaching and supervision of student midwives is expected and encouraged.



The post holder will be designated to take charge of a ward area in the absence of



the person who has continuing responsibility.



The post holder is expected to work in the birth centre but can be asked to



rotate between all clinical areas to cover service needs and demands at times



of escalation.

Short listing to be held:

Testing to be held:

Interviews to be held: