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DO YOU WANT TO SPREAD YOUR WINGS ?
Are you a midwife with a passion for supporting women with additional social needs and/or vulnerabilities through their unique journey to parenthood?
The WINGS team - Women Individually Nurtured Grow Strength
Shortlisted for Excellence In Midwifery for Public Health RCM awards 2024
The WINGS Team are an innovative community based midwifery team in NHS Dumfries and Galloway, who provide care and monitoring to pregnant women having additional complex social needs which may impact on their ability to parent.
A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a midwife to join the WINGS team and provide continuity of carer for women throughout the antenatal and postnatal periods. This is in line with the Scottish Government’s 5 year forward plan and initiative for maternity and neonatal services, ‘The Best Start’.
You will deliver non – judgemental, individualised midwifery care for women who present with complex social needs and will work in collaboration with families, and the multi-agency partners of organisations, to improve outcomes for the unborn, woman and her family. The role will incorporate health promotion, signposting and support particularly with factors which may impact on a pregnant mother’s ability to parent and also involves working closely with the wider multidisciplinary teams including Social Services, Child Protection Advisors, Family Nurse Partnership and voluntary agencies such as Women’s Aid.
The vision of the WINGS team is that women who are experiencing complex social issues within their pregnancy are offered streamlined and consistent support and care by one named midwife where possible. The intent of this is to ensure good continuity of carer, avoiding the need of 're-telling' the woman's story, promoting consistent wellbeing advice with early and relevant sign posting to partner agencies / 3rd sector services and resulting in improved outcomes for women, babies and families. You would be responsible for your own caseload reflective of the need to be flexible and focussing on the time required in developing trusting and enduring relationships with vulnerable women and their families but as a team would support cover Mon- Sun.
Across Dumfries and Galloway, the maternity unit supports a birth rate of approximately 1100 babies a year; Dumfries and Galloway is a beautiful place to live and work, displaying an array of glorious countryside with close transport links to both sides of the border.
For an informal discussion, please contact Heather Innes (Specialist Midwife/ Senior Charge Midwife) on 07771974274 or heather.innes1@nhs.scot
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES
To find out more about working with NHS Dumfries and Galloway and for an insight into our friendly, beautiful corner of Scotland please visit our Work With Us web pages https://www.nhsdg.co.uk/workwithus/
NHS Scotland is reducing their full-time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week for NHS Agenda for Change workers in Scotland from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period, for which you would be paid, until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week.
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EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
NHS Dumfries and Galloway is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Dumfries and Galloway welcomes applicants from all sections of the community.
PUBLIC PROTECTION
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RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
NHS Dumfries and Galloway has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by the UK Border Agency. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information on the UK Border Agency’s new points based system that now governs the way individuals from outside the UK can work at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk
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UNITED KINGDOM REGISTRATION
NHS Dumfries & Galloway are currently unable to support OSCE Training for international nurses for vacancies.
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