Main Duties and Responsibilities
The post holder will be required to undertake duties relevant to the area you may work in. These may include some of the following duties and responsibilities:
1. Clinical
o Works collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to support the development and delivery of personalised family centred care. This includes providing assistance and advice regarding infant feeding, hygiene, safety and supporting the establishment of parenting skills.
o Demonstrates understanding of health promotion and participates in delivering health promotion activities including, but not exclusively, smoking cessation, diet, active lifestyle, infant feeding, screening, and immunisation options available to women and babies.
o Supports the delivery of parent education sessions to individuals and groups.
o Ensures women and their families are aware of external support systems available and facilitates signposting and access as required.
o Acts as an advocate for women and provides reassurance appropriate to role.
o Asks for and listens to the views of families and women, and communicates any issues or concerns to the midwife or team leader.
o Supports maternal and neonatal basic care needs as required.
o Undertakes maternal and neonatal observations, documents findings, and escalates observations that fall outside of normal parameters to a registered midwife.
o Ensures that all clinical documentation is accurately collected, updated, stored, and filed in accordance with local information governance and record keeping policy and guidance.
o Undertakes maternal blood tests as required.
o Undertakes neonatal blood tests via the heel prick method.
o Implements clinical care and care packages (under the direction of registered midwives). This may include, but is not limited to, performing ECGs and supporting the midwife at a delivery.
o Provides advice as appropriate within own sphere/limitations of practice.
o Generates ideas for quality improvement and participates in developing and evaluating ideas using quality improvement methodology.
o Acknowledges personal and professional limitations and works within agreed competencies liaising with and referring to a midwife or relevant professionals as required.
o Actively supports education and development of colleagues by sharing knowledge and skills as required.
o Maintains personal development and reflects on practice to enable the development, delivery and evaluation of outstanding evidence-based care.
2. Governance
o Adheres to information governance principles and maintains confidentiality at all times.
o Demonstrates understanding of and upholds the organisational values.
o Works within organisational policies and procedures to ensure maintenance of safe working practices for women, their families and colleagues.
o Escalates any issues or concerns through the appropriate channels defined by organisational policy.
o Complies with Trust mandatory training as required.
3. Special Working Conditions
o Physical Effort: There is a frequent requirement to undertake moderate physical effort during each shift e.g. assistance with patients personal care. This post requires manual dexterity (for tasks such as venepuncture and cannulation), hand eye coordination, and frequent moving and handling of patients and equipment with trained knowledge.
o Mental Effort: There is a requirement for periods of concentration during a shift (likely to be between 8-12.5 hours long).
o Emotional Effort: The post holder may provide emotional and psychological support to women during pregnancy, labour and postpartum.
o Working Conditions: The post holder will frequently be involved in the joys and complexities of childbirth which can include direct contact with blood and bodily fluids.
Communication & Working Relationships
The post holder will work under the direction and supervision of a registered midwife or other member of the maternity team, to undertake tasks and duties to support the delivery of maternity care. Direct communication with users of maternity services and their families is essential to the role.
Due to the diversity of the population we serve, there may be situations where the audience may not easily understand information due to cultural or language differences. In these cases, the post holder will be equipped with tools (e.g., accessing interpreting services on an iPad) to support communication.
The post holder will also be expected, in the course of carrying out their duties, to communicate professionally with other people within the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust.
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