Continuity of Care Clinical Midwifery Manager - Homebirth Team

at  Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Continuity of Care Team Lead- 12 months fixed term opportunity available 37.5hrs
Are you a dynamic, passionate and innovative midwife? Are you looking for the next step in your career?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic midwife to lead our established case loading team Blossom & Bloom; that offers continuity of care to women and their families planning to birth in the community setting. Whilst predominantly low risk care will be provided, clients that wish to birth outside of guidance will be supported by the team within a multi-disciplinary approach.
You will also be involved in the next roll out of our CoC plan and liaise with both the Community Matrons and the other CoC leads in the development of 3 new teams next year. Your role will include management duties of one additional team once they have been established.
The role includes cross site working across Hampshire Hospitals. Our Trust provides maternity services across Hampshire in the community and at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester and Hampshire Hospitals Maternity Centre, Andover. The base for this role will be Andover Birth Centre however, travelling will be required to fulfil the role..
You will need to have excellent leadership skills to support the team to deliver high quality care and open to embracing positive change and transformation in order to meet the needs of the women in the local population. You will support women choosing to birth at home or in our free-standing birth centre embracing our plans to improve our provision of continuity of carer.
You should be an enthusiastic, confident clinical practitioner with experience in various midwifery settings, ideally within the community but not essential. Your ability to influence others will be integral to this role.
Working in maternity services at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is an exciting opportunity. We provide maternity care to women across Hampshire and parts of Berkshire, caring for 5800 women and their families every year. We have two obstetric units and a free standing birth centre and we are committed to constantly improving our service. Our award winning Labour Line was the first midwifery labour triage service based within an ambulance service. We are part of the SHIP collaborative (Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth) and our SHIP LMS is a Pioneer for Choice and Continuity.
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