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Site North Middlesex University Hospital Town London Salary £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive HCAS (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 07/05/2025 23:59
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
At North Middlesex we have a brand new, well equipped Delivery Suite which offers care to women from Enfield and Haringey who come from a diverse range of backgrounds. We care for many women with complex needs which creates a challenging environment and provides a great opportunity for learning and development within a supportive and learning-focused team.
We are looking for an experienced, dynamic midwife to provide women centred care within a number of settings to enable them to achieve their desired birthing experience, working collaboratively within the multi-disciplinary team and management to provide a high-standard of safe, women-centred care.
As a service, we are passionate about supporting midwives ongoing professional development. We have an outstanding practice development team who will support you during your supernumerary period, provide a comprehensive orientation programme,
Main duties of the job
This is a rotational post and the post holder is required to work in all areas within the Maternity Services providing antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care. Participating in future service developments and continuing professional developments.
The post holder will participate in an annual performance review at which appropriate targets will be defined. It is expected that midwives work autonomously within the guideline and sphere of professional practice.
1. To provide a high standard of midwifery care to mother and baby and to provide help and support to the family unit.
2. Is designated to take charge regularly of the Ward/Department in the absence of the person with continuing responsibility.
3. Is expected to take part in the IPR process, to supervise, mentor and provide preceptorship for junior staff.
4. Is able and expected to teach, lead and manage qualified and other staff, including students and student midwives.
5. The post holder will be asked to rotate between other clinical areas to cover service needs and demands at times of escalation
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see JD and PS attached for more detailed information.
To provide a high standard of midwifery care to mother and baby and to provide help and support to the family unit.
Is designated to take charge regularly of the Ward/Department in the absence of the person with continuing responsibility.
Is expected to take part in the IPR process, to supervise, mentor and provide preceptorship for junior staff.
Is able and expected to teach, lead and manage qualified and other staff, including students and student midwives.
The post holder will be asked to rotate between other clinical areas to cover service needs and demands at times of escalation
Person specification
Education and qualifications
* Registered Midwife
* Live Registration with NMC
* Evidence of post registration education activity
* Teaching/Assessing course (Mentorship/SSSA/ENB 997 or equivalent)
* Parent Education (Triple P or equivalent)
* Management course
* Evidence of relevant clinical updating and/or post registration qualification
Skills and abilities
* Effective communication and good interpersonal skills
* Computer skills necessary for input/output of client data and for communication with colleagues
* Pro-active approach to practice development
* Epidural top-up
* IV Cannulation
* Venapuncture
* Use of and interpretation of CTG
* Adult and neonatal resus
* Obstetric emergency skills
* Drug calculation
* Second language
* Theatre scrubbing
* Leadership/Management
* Post-op recovery
* High dependency care
* IV drug administration
* Examination of newborn (1st day check)
* Water birth/Homebirth Homeopathy/Acupuncture/ Aromatherapy Reflexology
Values
* Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Experience
* Experience in water birth
* Post registration experience in high and low risk women in antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care
* Post registration experience in hospital and community settings i.e. home, midwives and GP clinics, birth centres and GP units
* Experience in home birth
* Parenting education classes
* Teaching and assessing students
* Use of water for labour and delivery
* Ward/dept Manager/ Co-coordinator
We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.
You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
NMUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of NMUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.
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By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Aileen Liddell Job title Matron of Labour Ward, Triage and Birth Centre Email address aileen.liddell@nhs.net Telephone number 02088872485
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