We are looking to recruit innovative Band 6 midwives who are passionate about providing quality care to birthing families and are dedicated to providing evidence-based care. The post holder will work on a rotational basis alongside other acute areas of the women's centre.
Here in Oxfordshire, we offer women and healthcare professionals a unique setup of our Maternity Services where around 7500 babies are born annually. We have 4 stand-alone Midwifery Led Birth units within the county based at Banbury, Chipping Norton, Wantage, and Wallingford, as well as offering home births to all areas. There is also an integrated birth unit where around 10% of birthing people choose to go in labour. As a large Tertiary hospital, the John Radcliffe offers a large Delivery Suite with an en-suite birthing pool room, 3 Maternity theatres, and a specific Maternity Recovery Ward.
Please Note: This post is only for band 6 midwives, not newly qualified or International Educated midwives without prior UK midwifery experience.
Main duties of the job
This job is a rotational midwifery post between Fetal Medicine and other maternity areas within the trust. It is a great opportunity to work with a friendly, highly skilled, multi-disciplinary team, providing tertiary-level clinical care and support for women with complex pregnancies across Oxfordshire and the Fetal Medicine Network. Each week the Fetal Medicine and Pre-Term Birth Teams see up to 190 families requiring high-risk care pathways. Responsibilities for the successful candidates include managing in-utero transfers and high-risk pregnancy clinics, referral triage, bereavement care, and supporting and facilitating invasive procedures and insertion of cervical cerclage.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training, and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards, and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues, and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement, and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Job description
Job responsibilities
* Provide continuity of care, advice, and support throughout pregnancy, labour, and the postnatal period.
* Be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care within the practice area and to provide and maintain high standards of midwifery care.
* Teach, motivate, and encourage high standards of practice whilst furthering personal knowledge and experience.
* Accept responsibility for own personal and professional development.
* Contribute to the management of the practice area by accepting delegated responsibility from senior colleagues.
* Contribute to the learning environment of the practice area to enable students and new members of the practice area team to be supported.
* Ensure all statutory and non-statutory rules and regulations are complied with. Assist in promoting Clinical Risk Management within the practice area.
Working as a midwife the post-holder will:
* Fulfil the role of midwife, as defined by the World Health Organisation and the NMC Midwives Rules and Code of Practice.
* Assess, plan, implement and evaluate midwifery care, to a defined group of women taking into account the standards and philosophies of the county-wide Maternity Services. Accurately document all care given.
* Provide clinical supervision and support to less experienced midwives and maternity care assistants.
* Maintain awareness of current advances and changes in practice.
* Develop clinical expertise through experience and by attending appropriate courses, study days, and discussion groups, etc.
* Provide evidence of achieving the consolidation of clinical skills and the development of additional practice skills and knowledge.
* Participate in and contribute to programmes of care to develop parenting skills and knowledge.
* Evaluate practice by utilising evidence-based practice and participating in research.
* With support of a senior colleague act as advocate for women and their families to ensure appropriate care.
* Participate, where appropriate, in the on-call rota for the service.
* Develop ability to take charge on a shift-by-shift basis.
* Be able to cannulate and suture.
Managerial practice:
* Be aware of the working structure of the Oxfordshire Maternity Services and the resources available.
* Assist in maintaining a safe environment, reporting all accidents and incidents to the Ward Manager/Team Leader.
* Ensure relevant documentation is completed.
* Provide professional support to other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
Professional Development, Education & Research:
* Act as a supervisor to Maternity Support Workers and undergraduate students.
* Act as a preceptor.
* Supervise Maternity Support Workers and help in the identification of their training needs.
* Define own educational and development needs and discuss these at appraisal.
* Participate in the setting of standards of care using valid evidence-based practice.
* Keep up to date with professional issues that influence midwives practice relating to their area of clinical practice, management education, and research.
* Contribute towards the continuing development of professional practice within the clinical area embracing new ideas and changes for the benefit of women and their families.
* Inform the ward manager/team leader if there are insufficient resources available to provide safe care.
* Demonstrate the ability to record data on the maternity system and to be able to retrieve data results from OUHFT information systems.
* Accept responsibility for own personal and professional growth and maintaining a record of professional development experiences.
* Use the Trust ELMS Revalidation tool in preparation for revalidation.
* Participate in formal and informal review of own performance with your preceptor, team leader, ward manager, and peer group.
* Contribute towards the collection of data for local, regional, or national reports.
Person Specification
Qual knowl and comps
Essential
* Registered Midwife with current UK Registration and working as a band 6.
* Evidence of: A positive enthusiastic character.
* Being self-aware and able to accept constructive criticism.
* Ability to prioritise own workload.
* Able to work as part of a team.
* Demonstrates good verbal & written communication skills.
* Belief in and commitment to women-centred philosophy.
* Demonstrate developing strategies and ability to cope under pressure.
Desirable
* Mentor qualification.
* Interest in fetal medicine.
Employer details
Employer name
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
John Radcliffe Hospital and Community Teams
Headley Way
Oxford
OX3 9DU
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