Community Midwife for Equitable Health

We are seeking an enthusiastic and compassionate Community Midwife for Equitable Health to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of women and birthing people who experience additional vulnerabilities and barriers to accessing maternity care.

Our ambition is to address health inequalities through targeted Community Midwifery support, ensuring that every woman and birthing person receives personalised, accessible and inclusive care throughout their pregnancy and postnatal journey.

Working across a variety of community settings, you will provide tailored antenatal and postnatal care to a caseload of women and birthing people with complex needs, including those seeking asylum, women in prison, teenage parents, those affected by substance misuse, and individuals with significant safeguarding concerns. You will build trusted relationships, promote engagement with maternity services, advocate for those in your care and work to improve outcomes for women, babies and families.

Working closely with safeguarding, perinatal mental health, health visiting, social care and wider multidisciplinary teams, you will play a key role in identifying risk, coordinating care and ensuring women receive the support they need at the right time. You will contribute to the development of equitable care pathways, support the implementation of the Maternity Disadvantage Tool and champion initiatives that reduce health inequalities across our communities.

• Manage a defined caseload of women and birthing people with complex social, safeguarding and health needs, including those seeking asylum, women in prison, teenage parents, those affected by substance misuse, and individuals requiring enhanced support.
• Build trusting relationships and work proactively to promote engagement with maternity services, ensuring women and families receive the right care, at the right time, from the right professionals.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised programmes of care, coordinating support throughout pregnancy and the postnatal period to improve outcomes for women, babies and families.
• Work closely with the Named Midwife for Safeguarding, Perinatal Mental Health Team, Health Visitors, Social Workers, Obstetricians and wider multidisciplinary teams to ensure joined-up care and effective information sharing.
• Identify, manage and escalate safeguarding concerns appropriately, communicating and documenting complex and sensitive information in line with local and national guidance.
• Champion equity, inclusion and personalised care, supporting the implementation of initiatives and tools designed to address maternity disadvantage and reduce health inequalities.
• Work autonomously within local policies, national guidance and the NMC Code, using professional judgement to support women with complex and often challenging circumstances.
  
  

Trust Information Pack: https://yorkhospitals.pagetiger.com/hdjgxd

Our Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants.
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service).
• A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully. If you would like to discuss a potential relocation package, please speak to the recruiting department/manager.
• A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave.
• Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme.
• NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme.
• An extensive range of learning and development opportunities.
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers
  
  

For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Susie Kinsella Job title: Maternity Matron Email address: Susan.kinsella3@nhs.net Telephone number: 07788227549

We welcome tours and conversations from interested midwives, please do get in touch to hear more about the role and our Trust.