Report of Midwives Salaries Committee : salaries and emoluments of institutional and domiciliary midwives, non-medical supervisors of midwives and of pupil midwives.

  • Great Britain. Midwives Salaries Committee.
Date:
1943
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    from the actual supervision of the midwives, their duties include the organisa- tion of the domiciliary midwifery service and often other functions directly concerned with the midwifery service. We recommend, therefore, that the salary of a Non-Medical Supervisor of Midwives, within the range suggested, shall not be assessed on the number of midwives supervised, but that the employing authority shall fix the scale with due regard to the various duties of the office. The scale so fixed should, in our view, always be set out when the post is advertised. The range we recommend is intended to apply not only to Non-Medical Supervisors of Midwives employed whole-time as such, but also to those who combine the post with other duties. The Departmental Committee on the Training and Employment of Midwives (to which reference is made in para- graph 8), while recognising that in certain cases the duties of Non-Medical Supervisor of Midwives might be combined with other duties such as those of Superintendent of a County Nursing Association, expressed the view that it was desirable for ad hoc officers to be appointed to these positions by Local Supervising Authorities. We do not refer specially in the paragraphs in this Section which deal with conditions of service to the conditions of service of Non-Medical Supervisors of Midwives, but we intend that our recommendations as to conditions of domiciliary midwives should apply, where appropriate, to Non-Medical Super- visors. If, for example, a Non-Medical Supervisor is required to wear uniform, the employing authority should provide the uniform or reimburse reasonable expenses incurred by the Supervisor in providing it. Similarly, if they require her to have a telephone they should pay for its installation and maintenance. They should also provide her with the means of transport which they require her to use or reimburse approved travelling expenses incurred in the discharge of her duties. She will be entitled to 28 days annual leave with pay a year, and the prescribed amount of sick leave. TABLE II-—-SaLaRIEs AND EMOLUMENTS OF DOoMICILIARY MIDWIVES PROVIDED WITH FULL EMOLUMENTS IN HOSPITAL, MATERNITY HOME oR HOSTEL. Total value of Total value of Recommended Annual Annual Salary & Post Salary (exclusive Emoluments. Emoluments of emoluments) (For [Col. 2 plus superannuation Col. 3] purposes). (1) (2) (3) (4) Superintendent in Charge* of a District Midwives Home or Homes. If the number of mid- wives (apart from pupils is) :— (i)-20 or over .:: ... | £250, rising by annual £120 £370-£450 increments of {20 to p) £330. (ii) 15-19 xe ... | £240, rising by annual £120 £3600-£435 increments of £15 to - £315. (iii) 10-14 ios ... | £230, rising by annual £120 £350-£425 increments of £15 to £305. * For definition of Superintendent or Sister-in-Charge of a District Midwives Home see paragraph 31. For those in charge of a District Midwives Home attached to a hospital see Note 1 to Table I.