Job overview

Rotational Midwife 

Maternity Assessment Centre

Working within Maternity Assessment Centre delivering excellent care using the BSOTS to ensure women are appropriately triaged and treated when attending with pregnancy related complications or concerns. Our Maternity Assessment Centre runs 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. 

High risk antenatal/intrapartum/postnatal care

Working on our consultant led labour ward or on our antenatal / postnatal ward as part of a high functioning multidisciplinary team. On our labour ward we have exceptional rates of one-to-one care in labour and this is something we are extremely proud of.  Our AN/PN ward team offer an excellent service delivering the Induction of Labour pathway, Elective LSCS pathway with enhanced recovery and our Transitional Care pathway. We are proud to support our midwives in developing these services and embracing quality improvement opportunities.

Community midwifery / low risk birth

Working across our community footprint offering care to women and families close to home. This role involves on call working and supporting women who choose to birth at home or in a birth centre setting, you will need to be confident in recognising any deviations and referring to other members of the multidisciplinary team when required.

Main duties of the job

• To work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies as part of a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team.
• Autonomous carer for women, their partners and families within normal midwifery, and takes the lead in providing expert knowledge and opinions within this sphere acting as a clinical role model.
• Responsible for providing continuity of carer to a delegated clinical caseload throughout the antenatal / intrapartum and postnatal period which may include women with high and low risk pregnancies, liaising as necessary with the multidisciplinary team.
• Specialises in the care of women with low risk pregnancy and labour. Plans, implements and evaluates care.
• Acknowledges the changing context of care and has the authority to recommend pathways of care to pregnant women.
• Liaises with senior medical staff when complications arise in pregnancy and labour, transferring care to obstetric (team-based care) as appropriate. Continues to support women
  after referral, going on to liaise with senior midwifery and medical staff in relation to complicated obstetric cases.

Working for our organisation

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza. 

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.