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We currently have vacancies within our Scottish Health Award, patient nominated Bethune Continuity of Carer Team.
The Bethune team are looking for motivated well organised and methodical midwives to join them in providing a full continuity of care model for women who are experiencing a higher risk pregnancy. The Bethune midwives apply a continuity of carer model to women who have a BMI >40 at booking.
When at full capacity the team provides all ante intra and postnatal care. Available for birth shifts are included in contractual working week hours. No ‘on call’ expectation over and above these hours.
The Team hub is based in Kinghorn with an access to clinical and office room. There is access to a team car. This model offers own diary management. The team also provide midwifery care as part of the multidisciplinary metabolic clinic. The team is also supported with a Maternity Care Assistant.
Full training in all aspects of care required will be given. The team has been very well received by women and their families.
This team is now becoming embedded within our maternity services within NHS Fife.
NHS Fife maternity is a modern, thriving and progressive unit with approximately 3200 births per year. The services include outpatient and community services, a complex care Consultant Unit and an alongside Midwife Led Unit.
Our community services include a dedicated Birth at Home team who have doubled the number of Home Births in Fife in the last 2 years and operates a Continuity of Carer model.
We have a Scottish Health Award Winner in the ‘Midwife of the Year’ category 2020 with our Vulnerable in Pregnancy Service. This eight strong team consists of specialist midwives, nurses and nursery nurses who provide an exemplary service for women and families. The team provide specialist care for families with child protection concerns, learning needs, social challenges linked to deprivation and gender based violence.
We also have facilitated through redesign and training over 200 transitional care babies to remain with their mum within the postnatal ward. Our dedication to Best Start has continued throughout the global pandemic.
We have a thriving fast paced Maternity assessment unit that provides care to women with worries or concerns with their pregnancy out with their routine scheduled visits of care.
Last year our maternity Assessment unit provided over 17,000 triage phone assessments and in excess of 7000 face to face consultations. Our service runs between the hours of 0730 and 0100hrs 7 days per week offering varying shift patterns.
NHS Fife’s appreciation and nurture of Midwife led care is longstanding. Our alongside unit opened its doors in 1993 and has gone from strength to strength. Being revolutionary for its time, it has continued to be progressive and has been recognised nationally for the work in VBAC water birth. We aim to remain at the forefront of midwife led care and have more recently been a key contributor in the development of the MUSA Tool (Midwifery Unit Standards Assessment Tool) in conjunction with the University of London. Where the aim, is to have European Midwife Led Unit standards for all.
We have a dedicated ELLUSCS team as well as a dedicated Induction of labour Suite. The work and dedication our midwives apply to ensuring the best possible journey for woman and families was recognised and celebrated. The team were nominated finalists in the RCM awards in 2020.
We will encourage you with your professional development education via our dedicated clinical midwife educator and midwifery PEF. We have an extremely successful in house leadership programme and regularly encourage staff to participate in external networking.
An organisations culture and values cascades from its leadership. Our Head of Midwifery was a Royal College of Midwives national awards nominated finalist in 2021 for her work and dedication to staff well being during a Global Pandemic. This if nothing else should let you know how much NHS Fife values its staff.
Women and families are at the centre of all we do. We are progressive, dynamic and willing; all that is missing from our service is YOU.
You must be a NMC Registered Midwife, educated to degree level. In addition you should possess enthusiasm, excellent team working skills with effective communication.
For informal enquiries, please contact Pamela Higgins – Inpatient Clinical Midwifery Manager on 01592 729768 or 07971916562.
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.
NHS Scotland 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 Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.