Integrated Midwife with a Specialist Interest in Maternity Triage
Job Title: Integrated Midwife with a Specialist Interest in Maternity Triage.
Hours per week: to be agreed at interview (full and part time hours available)
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Closing Date: 10th January 2025
Interview Date: 17th January 2025 (subject to change)
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
Main duties of the job
Come and join our friendly, professional, and caring team at the George Eliot Maternity Unit.
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.
You will also have access to the lead Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) and a team of PMAs for additional support if/when required.
We are a unit who provide personalised care for women, babies and their families ensuring a first class service and experience. The 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
If you would like to be part of this successful, flexible, friendly team, whether you are a newly qualified or experienced midwife we would like to hear from you.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' taking centre stage. An ever evolving clinically led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:
Excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Job responsibilities
The post holder will provide high quality integrated midwifery care in both hospital and community settings as required for mothers, babies and their families throughout pregnancy, labour, the postnatal period, this may be part of an integrated continuity of carer team as required by service needs.
* 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.
Person Specification
Experience and knowledge
* 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
* 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
* 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
* Motivated, enthusiastic and committed to the department
* Takes responsibility for own actions and promotes good team working
* Effective time management
Other Qualities
* 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.
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.
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