Senior Community Midwife

To ensure efficient management and coordination of a community midwifery team. You will ensure that there is effective interface with the hospital and community teams as well as external agencies such as GP's, health visitors, social services etc. You will also have knowledge of antenatal and neonatal screening in order that you can support the antenatal and neonatal screening manager from a community perspective. You will be an expert midwifery practitioner who will provide support and advice to colleagues.

You should have excellent knowledge of child and adult safeguarding to ensure that our service users achieve the best outcomes for their family.

You will be key in the delivery of the national drivers (Saving Babies Lives version 3, MIS) You will have the ability to communicate and drive innovative ways forward to ensure equality of care for our diverse and vulnerable community.

The position is for 37.5 hours a week and you must work over 4 or 5 days for visibility. You must be able to get around the area in a timely manner to complete your work.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology.