Do you feel ready to empower women’s potential whilst keeping them and their babies safe?
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 tailored 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 Specialist midwife to join the WINGS team and provide non – judgemental, individualised midwifery care for women who present with complex social needs. You will work in collaboration with families and multi-agency partners to improve outcomes for the unborn, woman and her family. This is in line with the Scottish Government’s 5 year forward plan and initiative for maternity and neonatal services, ‘The Best Start’.
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.
As this is a specialist post there will be an expectation to contribute to updating and implementation of relevant guidelines and policies, leading on the planning, assessment, development and implementation of planned programmes of care for this highly complex group of women.
Staff support and training will be integral to this role, coordinating and providing training and guidance to staff related to the tailored and specific care for women in this defined vulnerable group. As the expert in this field, you will provide midwives and other clinicians with advice and support to help them make better decisions about women’s care and safety and will have shared responsibility for assessing and managing wider maternity safeguarding processes including screening of referrals.
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
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