Senior Community Midwife - Vulnerable Team (Liberty)

Are you an experienced community midwife with a special interest in working with vulnerable women/service users and their families?, The Liberty Team midwives provide care to vulnerable pregnant women/service users including teenagers, those with learning disabilities, victims of domestic abuse, those experiencing severe mental health issues, and those with with complex safeguarding issues.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership and undertake responsibility for line management of team. They will ensure communication is maintained across the community leadership team involving all Community Team Leaders and Senior Managers, and will take responsibility for the effective organisation and delivery of care across the service on a day-to-day basis.

You will provide antenatal and postnatal care in hospital /community clinics and in women's homes. You will provide a full range of health education, social care and advice to women, liaising with multi-disciplinary/agency groups to continually improve maternity care for childbearing women/service users and their families, being responsive to their needs and obtain user views as appropriate.

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.