University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
As one of the largest Teaching Hospitals in the region, our mission is to Care, Achieve and Innovate by providing excellent quality maternity care to our women, babies, and their families.
At UHCW, we deliver around 6000 babies, and women are able to choose whether they birth in the obstetric led unit, Lucina, the alongside midwifery led unit, or in the community, within their own home.
We are an innovative, award-winning team and are deeply committed to providing safe maternity care and a positive maternity experience. If successful, you will be fully supported in your new role and given opportunities to develop further.
Overseas applicants please only apply if you are registered with the NMC and are active on the register and already in receipt of UK PIN.
Main duties of the job
Our midwives have the opportunity to maintain their skills in all areas with our rotational programme, providing care in all settings. In addition to this, we offer dedicated specialist teams offering Enhanced Maternal care, Complex Care Continuity Team supporting maternal medicine, perinatal mental health clinics, and preterm prevention, and Continuity of Carer including women from culturally diverse backgrounds in collaboration with Coventry MAMTA Project Centre.
If you are a band 5 Midwife, you will be supported by our award-winning team of Clinical Preceptor Support Midwives (CPSM's) who will provide you with a named preceptor to provide additional pastoral support should it be required. We have a team of 9 Professional Midwifery Advocates (PMA), supported by a Lead PMA to provide restorative clinical supervision.
We are a forward-thinking department, with many opportunities for midwives to become involved in a variety of specialities and work streams including recruitment, service and staff development, and as Pathway to Excellence Ambassador. Individual career aspirations will be nurtured and fully supported to enhance career progression including internal leadership programmes and collaboration with the Florence Nightingale Foundation.
Job responsibilities
* Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Will contribute to corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust, and statutory guidelines and policies at all times.
* Effectively communicate information regarding clinical decisions, policy, and care pathways to patients/carers and the multi-professional team.
* A skilled practitioner and clinical leader providing support to the management team, participating in service/policy development.
* Responsible for clinical assessment of a group of patients and management of a team, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented, and evaluated/audited.
* Responsible for the maintenance and development of her/his clinical skills.
* Organisation of cross-departmental/organisational activities including HR, resource, research, and bleep-holder responsibilities as appropriate. (Band 6 only)
* Act for ward manager in her/his absence (Band 6 only).
* Demonstrate highly technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including; complex patient monitoring; equipment management and frequent administration of invasive tests/procedures.
* Develop and educate staff, participating in mentorship and appraisal as required.
* Utilise and ensure others utilise IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce, and resource data available.
* Manage expected and unexpected clinical events requiring varying levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/clinical need.
* Support patients, carers, and others during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g., imparting bad news or following an unexpected event.
* To participate in teaching and preparation for parenthood sessions.
* Develop knowledge of the Child Protection strategy and its implementation.
* Maintain a clean, safe environment ensuring adherence to Trust standards of cleanliness, hygiene, and infection control at all times.
* Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards.
* Participate in the on-call rota as part of the service needs supporting home birth and the Trust escalation policy.
Person Specification
Qualification /Training
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Experience
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Knowledge
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Skills & Abilities
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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.
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
£29,970 to £44,962 a year per annum pro rata
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