University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Are you a Registered Midwife? If so, we want to hear from you as we have a number of exciting opportunities within our Maternity Services for Band 6 Midwives.
We are looking for motivated, enthusiastic, and compassionate Midwives to join our fabulous team. We have opportunities in the Community.
Main duties of the job
We place the woman, baby, and family at the centre of our service. We are a consultant-led unit with a dedicated Midwifery-led care area within our delivery suites and deliver care to a diverse population with complex medical and social needs, working alongside a team of Specialist Midwives.
UHDB has cross sites with consultant units at Derby and Burton on Trent, alongside a Birth Centre at Derby and a freestanding birth centre at Lichfield.
Our Community Midwifery teams are GP caseload holding, providing antenatal and postnatal care, as well as supporting a homebirth service.
You should hold a full UK driving license; please make it clear in your application if you have your license or not.
Continuity of carer teams provide all aspects of care to women.
An extensive induction package is offered to any successful candidate joining our Maternity services to ensure you are well supported and have time to adjust to working within our services.
About us
At UHDB, around 9,000 babies are born across our two sites each year at Royal Derby Hospital (RDH) and Queens Hospital Burton (QHB). We provide antenatal and postnatal care for 11,500 women each year and, at RDH, we offer an alongside birth centre. We support women through low and high-risk care pathways, and some specialty pathways like diabetes and cardiology.
This is an exciting new era in our maternity improvement journey, following a £5.4 million investment into our services to strengthen our workforce, technology, and processes, so that we can further improve what we do and deliver the best quality care to women and their babies.
An extensive induction package is offered to successful candidates joining our Maternity services to ensure you are well supported and have time to adjust to working within our teams.
Job responsibilities
* An inclusive and supportive culture - our Trust encourages staff to bring their whole selves to work and active Staff Networks to identify areas for improvement.
* Employee Support and wellbeing - we have a comprehensive Employee Health & Wellbeing Programme which includes a counselling service and a range of activities.
* Staff benefits - We have a range of staff benefits and schemes to support staff health, engagement, wellbeing, and inclusion.
Details of UHDB sites
We have three wards across two sites, with a total of 88 beds for antenatal, postnatal, and induction of labour.
At Royal Derby Hospital there are:
* 17 delivery rooms including one pool room and bereavement suite.
* Four bedded Midwife led birth centre.
* Four bedded Obstetric Enhanced Care area and a two bedded assessment bay.
Queens Hospital Burton has seven delivery rooms including one pool room and one bereavement suite.
Samuel Johnson Community Hospital currently does not provide intrapartum care but runs as a community midwifery hub.
Where we are now:
We hold a CQC Good rating (from 2019) and we are focused on making progress in achieving compliance with the immediate and essential actions from Ockenden recommendations, as well as implementing valuable learning from recent external reviews and reports into the service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Current and valid NMC pin
* Full UK driving license
Experience
* Experienced Midwife
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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