Job summary
We are seeking a compassionate and experianced antenatal clinic midwife to join our maternity team. In this role, you will provide expert, woman centred care to expectant mothers during their antenatal appointments. You will support women through pregnancy by monitoring their health and wellbeing.
The ideal candidate will be skilled in clinical assessment, have excellant communication skills and be committed to delivering safe, personalised care in a supportive environment.
Main duties of the job
Provide high quality evidence based antenatal care in line with local and national guidance
Undertake maternal and fetal assessments, screening and monitoring to support safe pregancy outcomes
Offer health education and advice to women and their families
Identify and escalate any concerns or complications promptly to the approriate senior clinician
Maintain accurate, timely and confidential records of all care provided
Work collaborativley with the MDT.
Support and mentor junior staff and students in clinical placement
Promote and safeguiard the wellbeing of women and their babaies atg all times
Contrbute to service improvements
Ensure all care is delivered in a manner that respects privacy, dignity and cultural needs
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * Registered Midwife on part 2 of the NMC Professional register
Experience
Essential
- * Completion of pre or post registration midwifery programme
- * Return to midwifery practice
- * Ability to work autonomously within professional and Trust guidelines
- * Able to take the professional lead in caring for low risk women
- * Knowledge of needs of high and low risk women and neonates
- * Knowledge of child protection issues and when to take action
- * Knowledge to competently perform and interpret fetal heart auscultation, cardiotocography
- * Knowledge to safely use medical devices and other equipment required for practice
- * Knowledge of legal and ethical principles in midwifery for choice,consent, client autonomy
- * Knowledge to safely manage epidurals in labour
- * Understanding of risk management
- * Able to enter data on computer for notification of births, and patient records
- * Able to collect data for statistics audit
- * Able to use computer package to generate growth charts
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * Registered Midwife on part 2 of the NMC Professional register
Experience
Essential
- * Completion of pre or post registration midwifery programme
- * Return to midwifery practice
- * Ability to work autonomously within professional and Trust guidelines
- * Able to take the professional lead in caring for low risk women
- * Knowledge of needs of high and low risk women and neonates
- * Knowledge of child protection issues and when to take action
- * Knowledge to competently perform and interpret fetal heart auscultation, cardiotocography
- * Knowledge to safely use medical devices and other equipment required for practice
- * Knowledge of legal and ethical principles in midwifery for choice,consent, client autonomy
- * Knowledge to safely manage epidurals in labour
- * Understanding of risk management
- * Able to enter data on computer for notification of births, and patient records
- * Able to collect data for statistics audit
- * Able to use computer package to generate growth charts
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
