Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Full and Part Time posts available for Band 6 Midwives
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Midwife to join our outstanding team of supportive and dedicated Midwifery and Medical staff, across all areas of Maternity, including Maternity Triage and the Community, helping to further the outstanding 5 star patient care provided by all.
We are expanding unit an increase of expectant mothers choosing to have their care from our Maternity Services. The Maternity Unit is furnished with state of the art, modern facilities for mothers and their babies.
An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post.
Main duties of the job
To achieve women's expectations we offer a friendly, supportive and safe service for women, their partners, babies and their families. We believe in promoting normality in pregnancy and Intrapartum care. We will support our women in their choice of Birth place we currently offer three choices home, Delivery Suite or our Midwifery Led Unit.
The Maternity Team consists of a dedicated group of Midwives, Obstetricians, Paediatricians, Anaesthetists, Health Care Assistants, a House Keeper and Admin Staff.
Job responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
1. The midwife is accountable for the personal provision of midwifery care that is evidenced based and woman centred, aiming to continually improve standards, quality of care, and ultimately the woman's experience.
2. The midwife must have the resilience to cope with the personal accountability and many demands of this role.
3. All employees have a duty and a responsibility to protect and safeguard children and vulnerable adults. The midwife must have an excellent working knowledge of local safeguarding children and vulnerable adult procedures and act in accordance of these at all times, in addition to ensuring mandatory training requirements are up to date.
4. Undertake holistic (physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual) and effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation within their own sphere of clinical practice.
5. In conjunction with the ward manager and senior management team, contribute to the development of midwifery models of care to ensure the delivery of evidence based woman centred midwifery care.
6. Be trained and skilled in undertaking IV drug administration, IV cannulation, perineal suturing, caring for women with epidural anaesthesia, home birth, waterbirth and providing high dependency care.
7. Ensure compliance of patient risk assessments, such as VTE, CPE, pressure ulcers.
8. Provide individualised care for women experiencing bereavement and ensure all requirements for investigations and follow-up are met.
9. Promote health education and provide appropriate information and advice to women and their families.
10. Ensure all clinical risk assessments are completed i.e. VTE, Pressure Ulcer and CPE.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Midwife, with current NMC registration
* Educated to degree level or equivalent, or willing to work towards
* Recognised Teaching/Mentorship Qualification
Knowledge and Experience
* Knowledge of current Midwifery issues
* Substantial post registration experience across all Maternity Pathways
Skills
* Excellent clinical skills
Other
* Evidence of fulfilling PREP
* Car owner/access to a car for community rotation with insurance for business use
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
£37,338 to £44,962 a year (pro rata if part time)
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