Job Title: Band 6 Integrated Midwife
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week (Full Time and Part Time hours are available)
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Closing Date: 29th October 2024
Interview Date: TBC
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
We are recruiting Band 6 midwives to come and join our wonderful workforce here at George Eliot.
Why join us at George Eliot? We deliver 2100 babies per year. Our service includes community teams, ante-natal clinic, maternity assessment unit, inpatient ward, triage, and labour suite. We have significantly developed our senior leadership team and our team of specialist midwives to deliver excellent holistic woman-centred care within a psychologically safe and excellent environment for our much-valued staff.
Main duties of the job
The successful post holder will provide ante-natal, post-natal and intrapartum care to women with low and high-risk pregnancies. They will rotate through all areas of the services as required including Continuity of Carer and Community and will be supported by the newly appointed midwifery retention support midwife.
Benefits include:
* Dynamic and supportive management team
* Forward thinking in response to new national initiatives, including the saving babies lives care bundle
* Provision of preceptorship for newly qualified members of the team
* Named professional midwifery advocate
* On-going professional development and support
* Rotation and integration within all areas of the service
Job responsibilities
* Provide high quality integrated midwifery care in both hospital and community settings as required for mothers, babies and their families throughout pregnancy, labour, and the postnatal period.
* Act as the woman’s advocate in promoting, and delivering the highest standard of midwifery care, ensuring all fundamentals of care are addressed, and current, relevant policies and procedures are adhered to.
* Using evidence-based practice, assess the woman’s physical, psychological and spiritual needs, plan, implement and evaluate midwifery care involving the woman and her family, as appropriate.
* Write reports, record observations and maintain plans of care, including electronic data storage and other appropriate records, accurately, legibly, concisely and contemporaneously.
* Monitor the woman’s condition, interpret observations and identify deviations from normal. Report and refer to relevant health professionals, carrying out midwifery interventions as needed.
* Keep the woman and her family informed, when appropriate maintaining client confidentiality.
* Ensure midwifery care is flexible to meet the diverse needs of women.
* Undertake clinical skills, as per the trusts Health Board Policy, relevant to role and the woman’s care.
Please note that this list is not exhaustive, for more information please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Person Specification
Experience and knowledge
Essential
* Good level of post registration experience including experience within relevant clinical environment
* Previous experience of participating in research and audit
* Knowledge of safeguarding children procedures
Qualification and Professional Training
Essential
* Evidence of ongoing relevant continuing professional development, linked to demonstrate clinical competencies
* Registered Band 6 midwife
* Possession of a relevant degree or studying towards it
Skills and abilities
Essential
* High standard midwifery skills
* Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality issues
* Able to work across professional team and organisational boundaries
* Able to problem solve and initiate change
Personal Qualities
Essential
* Motivated, enthusiastic and committed to the department
* Takes responsibility for own actions and promotes good team working
* Effective time management
Other qualities
Essential
* Able to effectively manage work-based stressful situations, both in self and others - liaising with outside agencies when appropriate.
* To participate in on-call rota (when required)
* Dealing with death/bad news. Ability to sensitively inform service users on emotional and complex issues such as stillbirth, maternal and neonatal death, diagnosis and treatment, complaints investigation and resolution.
Employer details
Employer name
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Address
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, College Street, Nuneaton, CV107DJ
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