Community Birth Team Midwife, Band 6

We are inviting internal applications from experienced midwives who would like to be part of our new Community Birth Team and help shape the service from the very beginning. This is an exciting opportunity to become one of our trailblazers. Midwives who will help establish the team, develop how we work together and influence the culture and ways of working as the service grows. The Community Birth Team has been designed with midwives and staff involvement at the beginning of its development. We have worked hard to develop a flexible staffing and on call model that supports work life balance and recognise the competing priorities that staff have outside of work.

We are particularly keen to hear from experienced midwives who are passionate about supporting women to birth in their chosen setting and who want to play an active role in creating something new.

Joining at this stage means you will have a genuine opportunity to influence how the team develops. We are looking for enthusiastic, adaptable and self aware midwives who want to contribute to creating a supportive, psychologically safe and clinically excellent team. If you want to be part of creating something new, have your voice heard and help shape the future of community birth in Gloucestershire, we would love to hear from you.

You will provide woman centred antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care, with a particular focus on supporting women choosing to birth at home or within a stand alone midwifery led setting. You will work autonomously within the community, promote physiological birth and informed choice, support community birth and therefore recognise and respond to changes in clinical condition, and confidently manage emergencies and transfers when required. You will participate in the team's birth availability and on call model, work across community and birth settings, contribute to continuity of care and support the development of safe, evidence based ways of working.

You will bring excellent communication, critical-thinking and decision-making skills, working confidently as an autonomous practitioner while contributing positively within the multidisciplinary team. Applicants should be adaptable, organised and able to thrive in a dynamic environment, with a proactive approach to maintaining professional development and promoting best practice

Being an early member of the team will also bring an expectation that you will be actively involved in shaping and developing the service. We are looking for midwives who are open to change, willing to learn together and prepared to have constructive conversations about what works well and what we can improve.