Full and Part Time posts available for Band 6 Midwives
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Midwife to join our outstanding team of supportive and dedicated Midwifery and Medical staff, across all areas of Maternity, including Maternity Triage and the Community, helping to further the outstanding 5 star patient care provided by all.
We are expanding unit an increase of expectant mothers choosing to have their care from our Maternity Services. The Maternity Unit is furnished with state of the art, modern facilities for mothers and their babies.
An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post.
To achieve women's expectations we offer a friendly, supportive and safe service for women, their partners, babies and their families. We believe in promoting normality in pregnancy and Intrapartum care. We will support our women in their choice of Birth place we currently offer three choices home, Delivery Suite or our Midwifery Led Unit.
The Maternity Team consists of a dedicated group of Midwives, Obstetricians, Paediatricians, Anaesthetists, Health Care Assistants, a House Keeper and Admin Staff.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
KEY DUTIES
* The midwife is accountable for the personal provision of midwifery care that is evidenced based and woman centred, aiming to continually improve standards, quality of care, and ultimately the woman’s experience.
* The midwife must have the resilience to cope with the personal accountability and many demands of this role.
* All employees have a duty and a responsibility to protect and safeguard children and vulnerable adults. The midwife must have an excellent working knowledge of local safeguarding children and vulnerable adult procedures and act in accordance of these at all times, in addition to ensuring mandatory training requirements are up to date.
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
* Undertake holistic (physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual) and effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation within their own sphere of clinical practice.
* In conjunction with the ward manager and senior management team, contribute to the development of midwifery models of care to ensure the delivery of evidence based woman centred midwifery care.
* To support maternity managers/leaders in the assessment of current practices within midwifery and assist in innovations that lead to improved quality of care.
* Be trained and skilled in undertaking IV drug administration, IV cannulation, perineal suturing, caring for women with epidural anaesthesia, home birth, waterbirth and providing high dependency care.
* Ensure compliance of patient risk assessments, such as VTE, CPE, pressure ulcers.
* Undertake Newborn Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) if trained to do so.
* Assist with the monitoring of NIPE compliance (72 hour target) and escalate as appropriate.
* Be confident and competent in dealing with common obstetric and neonatal emergencies in a hospital and/or community setting i.e. shoulder dystocia, post-partum haemorrhage, neonatal resuscitation, maternal resuscitation, unexpected breech birth, cord prolapse.
* Have a working knowledge of Trust and Maternity Risk Management requirements.
* Identify and actively participate in the reporting of all clinical incidents (as per local trigger list, which is not exhaustive), accidents and near misses through the datix system.
* Provide individualised care for women experiencing bereavement and ensure all requirements for investigations and follow-up are met.
* Promote health education and provide appropriate information and advice to women and their families. Lead and facilitate Parent Education classes if required.
* Use maternity unit processes and systems to ensure efficient and effective admission and timely discharge from the maternity unit.
* Maintain an up to date Professional Registration and Revalidation status.
* Adhere to relevant requirements of the Midwifery Professional body.
* Maintain own continuous professional development (CPD) in order to competently fulfil the role of the midwife.
* Comply with Trust Mandatory training requirements.
* Adhere to Trust Policies, Guidelines and other requirements.
* Practice in accordance with the Trust’s 5 Star patient care, the corporate objectives, Trust’s Nursing and Midwifery Strategy, Maternity Strategy, and the Trust ACE Behavioural Standards.
* Actively support the delivery of the Trust’s Maternity Strategy.
* Actively support the delivery of the Trust’s Maternity Dashboard, supporting ward/clinical area dashboards and other key performance indicators for the maternity service.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
* Must be fully able to use the Trust computerised systems (once trained) integral to the running of the maternity service.
* Maintain efficient multi-disciplinary communication systems within the area of responsibility reporting to the midwifery manager / shift leaders as appropriate.
* To ensure midwifery records are legible, accurate, contemporaneous, signed, dated and maintained in accordance with Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) policies and guidelines, and Trust Policies relating to Record Keeping.
* Develop and utilise advanced communication methods and skills, such as negotiating, and empowering language to effectively communicate complex, sensitive and often distressing information, to women and their families in a way they understand.
* Ensure the patient whiteboard and ward entrance boards are up to date.
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES
* To be personally responsible for ensuring participation in in-service training programmes, including mandatory requirements and continuing professional development needs as required of a Midwife.
* Facilitate meeting the needs of all learners, by proactively contributing to provide a good learning environment and maximising opportunities in clinical and non-clinical teaching.
* Participate in the education and assessment of all pre and post registration students in accordance with the University and Trust requirements, providing mentorship where appropriate.
* Be a role model for all students, junior midwives and support staff, utilising quality leadership and supervision skills.
* Participate in research and clinical audit programmes, in order to foster innovative, best practice, and contribute to the development, improvement and advancement of services and quality initiatives.
LINE MANAGEMENT/SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Act as a shift leader as and when directed to do so.
* Deputise for the ward manager when appropriate.
* To proactively support the safety huddle process ensuring it is embedded into day to day practice.
* To allocate the daily workload, assign staff for their required breaks and monitor compliance.
* To ensure all emergency/resuscitation equipment is checked daily and documentation of same recorded and signed.
* To be aware of the Major Incident Policy and drills.
* Contribute towards monitoring and evaluating standards of care and undertaking the regular appraisal of assigned staff.
* Supervise, delegate and co-ordinate the professional work of midwifery and other staff within the team as directed.
This advert closes on Monday 13 Jan 2025
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