Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland .
Contact
AddressNorthumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustHuman Resources DepartmentNorthumbria House7/8 Silver Fox Way, Cobalt Business ParkNewcastle upon TyneNE27 0QJContact Number0191 2031415 Option 2
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Key details
Location
SiteNorthumbria Specialist Emergency Care HospitalAddressNorthumbria WayTownCramlingtonPostcodeNE23 6NZMajor / Minor RegionTyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
ContractPermanentHours37.5 hours per week (Full time and part time hours available)
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
Salary
Salary£29,970 - £44,962 pro rata per annumSalary periodYearlyGrade(Band 5)
Specialty
Main areaMidwifery
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
* On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
* Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
We are seeking highly motivated and dynamic registered midwives to join our team who are passionate about delivering high quality care, whilst achieving the best patient experience.
There are opportunities to support all areas within our maternity services including acute services, community settings in North Tyneside and South East Northumberland.
The innovative Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH) has a Birthing Centre, mixed antenatal/postnatal inpatient ward and a 24 hour Pregnancy Assessment Unit. The Birthing Centre offers women low risk midwifery care with state of the art facilities including waterbirth pools, alongside women who require Obstetric care with associated risk factors.
We offer a comprehensive training package as well as having strong links with local universities and take great pride in the excellent preceptorship package of which we offer to our newly qualified midwives.
Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable number of applications are received.
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* As part of the Midwifery profession, the successful candidates must hold a valid registration/revalidation.
* You should be able to demonstrate excellent communication/interpersonal skills, compassion, flexibility and willingness to develop new skills.
* Successful candidates are expected to participate in Trust statutory/mandatory training on a yearly basis.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people great choice and control over their care and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient and staff experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To assume responsibility for the devolved management of a ward/unit/caseload including the assessment of care needs, the implementation of evidence based programme of care.
* To supervise, support and educate junior members of the team.
* To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Midwives Rules and Standards.
* To be responsible for all midwifery care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
* To participate in on-call hospital/community rota.
* To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
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Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Applicant requirements
warning You must have appropriate UK professional registration. info This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* 1st Level live NMC Registered Midwife
* Registered mentor. Mentorship Qualification or relevant equivalent qualification. (essential requirement or must be gained within 12 months of appointment)
* Diploma or degree or equivalent relevant experience
Experience
Essential criteria
* Professional/clinical knowledge acquired through midwifery training; to degree/diploma level plus ongoing preceptorships
* Evidence of change management in ward/dept area
* Evidence of practice development
* Experience of co-ordinating a team
Documents
* NUR1297-Midwife (, 328.4)PDFKB
* NUR1027-Hospital/Community Midwife (, 352.4)PDFKB
* Northumbria Privacy Policy (, 520.6)PDFKB
* Northumbria Candidate Pack (, 624.3)PDFKB
Further details / informal visits contact
NameAurora HamiltonJob titleLead Professional Midwifery AdvocateEmail address [email protected]Telephone number03458118111Additional information #J-18808-Ljbffr