Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Do you want to be part of positive transformation within maternity services? Are you passionate about personalisation of care and achieving equality and equity for women and their families? Our service needs a motivated and inspirational Band 6 Midwife to join our maternity team within our community team. You will be a valued member of the team providing personalised care to women throughout their antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal journey.
This post will give you the opportunity to utilise and develop your midwifery skills and care for women in the Abbey Birth Centre and for those women/birthing people birthing at home. You will have the opportunity to take on antenatal/postnatal clinics and provide postnatal care within families' homes.
Main Duties of the Job
Within ASPH we have a range of services. We provide a homebirth service, an alongside birthing centre, a level 3 Neonatal Unit, and a high-risk maternal and fetal medicine service. This will give you the opportunity to become skilled in all areas of midwifery. An MDT approach is always used within these services, and we work extremely closely with our NICU team to provide the best outcome for babies that require their care.
We pride ourselves on our working culture, and the senior leadership team strives to improve the wellbeing and satisfaction of our colleagues. You will be provided opportunities for development and training within the trust and courses offsite. ASPH have recently opened a wellbeing hub, and staff will have the opportunity to access the onsite gym and other resources.
About Us
Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow, and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists, and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey, and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.
We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with our strong commitment to staff health and wellbeing. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits, and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.
Please see the supporting links which you can find on the right-hand side of this job advert. There is guidance on how to make an application on NHS Jobs as well as more information about joining the ASPH Team.
Although it isn't the Trust's normal practice, adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
Job Responsibilities
The postholder will:
* Be responsible as an autonomous practitioner for assessing, diagnosing, and providing professional clinical midwifery care to normal healthy women during the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal stages without referral to a medical practitioner.
* Ensure referral to the appropriate health professional when deviations from the normal occur and work in partnership with that health professional to ensure safe standards of care.
* This post may be either hospital or community-based with flexibility to move between care settings.
* When community-based, the postholder will be expected to participate in the on-call rota/night duty for community.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Nursing or Midwifery degree or equivalent
* Registered Midwife
* ENB 997/8 or equivalent or to achieve within 1 year
Experience
* Experience as a qualified midwife with all clinical competencies achieved
* Clinical experience in a busy NHS hospital (or equivalent)
* Experience of working with technologies commonly used in the NHS (or equivalent)
* Data collection and audit experience
* Experience of working in a community setting
Knowledge
* NHS Constitution
* Trust vision, values, and strategic objectives
* Current midwifery standards and best practices
* Evidence-based practice and its implementation
* Current issues affecting Maternity Services
* Clinical governance and risk management issues
* Philosophies of care for low and high-risk women
* Understanding of national policies and guidelines including Clinical risk management, CNST, and NICE
* Issues currently facing the NHS and Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust
* Trust vision, values, strategic objectives, and key work programmes
Skills
* Knowledge & awareness of diversity and human rights as appropriate to your role
* Ability to communicate effectively to ensure high standards of care, treatment, service, or support as appropriate to your role
* Ability to understand an individual's communication, physical & emotional needs; recognise their needs and preferences
* Able to provide a customer-focused service
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Basic IT and keyboard skills
* Time management skills and ability to remain calm and function effectively under pressure
* Able to be flexible in the workplace
* Demonstrable ability to work competently with commonly used technologies
* Able to effectively manage risk
* Demonstrable leadership skills
* Ability to motivate others
Other
* Able to demonstrate that you are honest, reliable, and trustworthy
* Treat patients, visitors, and colleagues with respect
* Ability to travel between Trust sites
* Ability to be flexible to meet the needs of the team, the service, and the Trust
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.
Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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