Community Midwife

We are the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT).

We are a University teaching hospital full of hard working and dedicated staff providing community and hospital services across the Morecambe Bay area - an area covering a thousand square miles in south Cumbria and north Lancashire.

Do you consider caring with compassion to be fundamental to your role?

We have some exciting news at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust. We are currently seeking a community midwife to join our team, supporting and caring for women and their families in the Lancaster Royal Infirmary catchment area.

As the successful candidate for this post you will be a passionate, professional and kind midwife embedded in woman centeredness. You should be able to drive and have a flexible approach to work within your team to provide overnight availability for the homebirth service and delivery suite support.

Applications welcome for both full time and part time.

As a community midwife, you will be working in a team of midwives based at Lancaster Royal Infirmary, caring for diverse populations including vulnerable women, women from different ethnicities, teenagers and women with low risk and complex pregnancies. You will be booking women’s pregnancies, providing their routine antenatal care, providing antenatal education and promoting woman’s choice, following her through to the postnatal period.

Our teams are linked to obstetricians, specialist midwives and professional midwifery advocates.

We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.

WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.

All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.

Our community services for adults are provided in people’s homes, community centres, clinics, GP Practices, community hospitals and our main hospitals. Our aim is to work with people to help them remain independent, improve their health and manage their conditions through high quality care, advice and support.

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our websitehttps://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/