Site Wycombe Hospital Town Wycombe Salary £37,338 - £44,962 pa pro rata Dependant on experience Salary period Yearly Closing 27/02/2025 23:59
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
* provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
* nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
* regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
* deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact bht.recruitment@nhs.net or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit band 6 midwives who are motivated with a real passion for perinatal mental health and focused on ensuring the delivery of high-quality midwifery care. We aim to provide patient centred, clinically driven and flexible care, providing support to our patients. This role will involve working with women and birthing persons from diverse groups, low socio-economic backgrounds, and other various settings.
You will be working within a supportive multi-disciplinary team autonomously, and with the specialist mental health midwife, community mental health teams, local IAPT and health visitor for mental health. This will involve case loading to empower and allow women or birth person to have a journey that will be compassionate and will make a difference to their families.
We have both full time and part time jobs available as well as flexible working opportunities. We also have flexible options of working within more than one clinical area. For example, splitting hours between the inpatient unit and our community team.
This exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a midwife within our well established multi-disciplinary team, supporting patients, colleagues and students.
As a member of our team the midwife is responsible for planning and implementing care for patients throughout the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal period within their role as an autonomous practitioner.
Main duties of the job
* Work directly alongside the perinatal mental health specialist midwife in a support role.
* Provides a full range of midwifery care, health education and social care advice to women in all care settings.
* Takes on the role of caseloading targeted mothers who have mental health needs.
* Work within a continuity of care model for women with perinatal mental health needs/vulnerable families.
* Provides clinical and professional expertise to the multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team.
* Participates in the development of midwifery services to meet the needs of mothers with mild, moderate and severe mental health problems.
* Assess the full range of care needs and assist in developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period for women and their babies.
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
* As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
* We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
* We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
* We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
* As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
* Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
* A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.
What do we stand for?
* Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
* Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
* Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
Person specification
Special Criteria
* Holds a UK driver’s license
* Ability to support in clinical escalation and unit on calls
Education and Training
* Registered Midwife
* Evidence of continuing professional development and its application
* Diploma / Degree level
Skills, Ability and Knowledge
* Awareness and respect for colleagues, patients and relatives cultural, religious and emotional needs and beliefs.
* Professional appearance and behaviour.
* Good previous attendance record.
* Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships.
* Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
* Treat all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued. Consults others and listens to their views/opinions.
* Enables others to take the initiative.
* Flexible approach to working hours and practices.
Experience
* Knowledge of Midwifery issues in the wider context of the NHS.
* Excellent theoretical and practical knowledge of Midwifery.
* Experience of managing a community midwifery caseload or willingness to undertake case loading relevant to role.
* Knowledge of responsibilities under the Health and Safety Act 1974.
* Knowledge of NMC Code.
* Knowledge of mental health and vulnerable adult issues.
* Knowledge of working with vulnerable families.
* Understanding of team motivation.
* Ability to act as a mentor for Midwives, students and MCAs.
* Able to identify problems and recommend solutions.
* IT literate on Microsoft Office and Excel.
* Excellent communication skills with all members of the team, patients and relatives.
* Good verbal and written English which can be evidenced at interview or IELTs level 7 (in all elements) or above.
* Able to organise complex packages of patient care.
* Effectively prioritises and co-ordinates own work.
* Satisfactory enhanced Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure with check against vulnerable groups barred lists.
* Commitment to the principles of Clinical Governance and patient safety.
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
If you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.
Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
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