Job summaryThe Lavender Homebirth Team are recruiting. We are looking for an experienced, dedicated midwife, passionate about providing continuity of care to a group of women choosing to birth their baby at home.This opportunity will encourage you to develop your autonomous skills to provide care to women in pregnancy, intrapartum and postnatally.You will work with your buddy midwife to manage a caseload of women within an area of Frimley Health's catchment.You will liaise closely with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure appropriate care planning is in place, where risk factors are present, to ensure fully informed, safe care is offered and provided to our women.This post will be for approximately 12 months, starting in July 2024.Main duties of the jobHomebirth MidwifeAll midwife practitioners will be Registered Midwives, accountable for their own midwifery practice and will be able to fulfil the following role through the ability to make decisions with current protocols and principles of care in compliance with the NMC's Midwives Rules and code of Midwifery Practice.This midwife may be a recently qualified midwife or she/he may be very experienced but she/he will be expected to continue with post-registration education and development to become a confident midwife able to provide care with the women either in the community or hospital environment.The post holder is required to take responsibility as a prime care provider in either the hospital or community setting. She/he will be confident in providing midwife led care.About usFrimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital servicesforaround 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence,WorkingTogether and Facing the Future.We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnelworkingalongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialtiesJob descriptionJob responsibilitiesThe successful candidates will join a small Midwifery team offering low risk care. The team works closely with around 6 colleagues in a supportive, caring and learning environment, supporting students and liaising closely with other members of the wider team, providing excellent and up-to-date care to women accessing the service.The team provides antenatal, Intrapartum and postnatal care for women in the home setting and community hubs, facilitating informed choice and promoting low risk homebirths.Person SpecificationSkillsEssentialDegree in midwiferyDesirableCommunity experienceDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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 SponsorshipApplications 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 RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).Employer detailsEmployer nameFrimley Health NHS Foundation TrustAddressFrimley Park HospitalPortsmouth RoadCamberleyGU16 7UJEmployer's websitehttps://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)