Job summary
Within our highly skilled
and multi-disciplined Maternity Service at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS
Trust, unique and fulfilling opportunities have become available in the
position of Band 6 Midwife.
As a Band 6 Midwife, you will
have the opportunity to work across our busy hospital based maternity services,
work within the community setting or within our highly sought after Continuity of
Carer teams.
Being a Midwife at
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, is a truly remarkable and rewarding
career.
Here at Portsmouth, we are
proud to be able to facilitate an average of 5500 births per year. As a Trust, we are lucky to have standalone
birth centres, co-located units and home birth options. This is a really is an exciting time to come
and work for Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust as we move forward with
our future visions.
With a team of committed,
caring and experienced Midwives, we are looking for likeminded individuals to
join us and continue on our journey, in delivering exceptional care and being
the number one choice of birthing units to our local families.
Main duties of the job
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To be a confident competent autonomous
practitioner who practices within the sphere of the Nursing & Midwifery
Council (NMC) and Trust guidelines.
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To be responsible for delivering and maintaining
a high standard of day to day evidence based practice for all women and babies
in the designated clinical area/caseload.
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To maintain and continually develop in-depth
specialist knowledge of midwifery practice relevant to the individual clinical
area.
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To engage with women and their families to
encourage and promote woman centred care, normalising their experience as much
as possible.
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To provide support and to deputise for the Band
7 as and when required.
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To be a source of reference regarding Health
Education and Social Care.
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To act as mentor for student midwives and other
junior staff/learners.
Portsmouth Hospitals
University NHS Trust is a forward-thinking and innovative Trust, committed to
developing and encouraging their personnel to progress within their career. As a thank you for the hard work and dedication of our staff, we offer an excellent benefits package and just a few of those benefits include:
- On-site childcare
- Salary finance schemes
- Health service discounts
- Interest free season
ticket loans (travel)
- Onsite gym, swimming pool
and fitness classes
- Staff wellbeing services
- Free hire of beach hut
- And much, much more!
About us
The Trust is committed to driving excellence in care for our patients and communities and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission report published 2020 and became a University Hospital. We are ranked as the third in the country for research; embedding education and training across the organisation and we continuously strive to achieve our core values which are at the heart of everything we do. The Trusts main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, starting life as a military hospital over a century ago and now one of the largest hospitals on the south coast and you may have seen us on the TV series Nurses on the Ward. The Trust provides comprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire. The Trust employs over 8,000 staff and are #ProudtobePHU; our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because its the right thing to do, but because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for providing outstanding care and support for patients, colleagues and our community you will find a home at PHU. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in
terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender
identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans
status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The band 6 role requires the midwife to continually develop
and progress their clinical competencies and leadership skills in all areas of
midwifery practice.
Professional
Leadership & Communication
-
On completion of competency act as midwife in
charge as required in rotation, participating in the allocation of workload
and ensuring efficient caseload management and effective patient care.
-
Work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary
team, ensuring effective communication.
-
Provide on call cover as per service need.
-
Take charge of the clinical area with the
support of and in the absence of senior members of staff.
-
Ensure professional and clinical standards are
maintained and developed in response to new evidence.
-
Act as an expert practitioner and professional
role model, demonstrate advanced clinical skills, promote clinical excellence
and ensure an optimum standard of midwifery care is delivered across the
maternity pathway.
-
Establish and maintain relationships with women,
families and the multi-professional team.
-
Demonstrate the ability to motivate, negotiate
and train others.
-
Empower women to make informed choices and act
as an advocate as required.
Women Centred Care
-
Using a woman focused approach assess, plan,
implement and evaluate individual programmes of care, ensuring clinical
practice is clinically effective and research based.
-
Develop multidisciplinary maternity guidelines
through active participation in relevant PODS/forums/focus groups and the
dissemination of knowledge.
-
Demonstrate a commitment to evidence based
practice, highlight areas for change, then initiate and evaluate evidence to
improve and develop woman centred care.
-
Promote health education within the clinical area
and be able to advise the women, families and others in health promotion.
-
Develop and strengthen interpersonal relationships
with all members of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring good team working,
collaborative working practices and professionalism through liaison with
associated services including child Protection, Social Services, teenage
pregnancy groups etc.
-
Comply with NMC standards for records are
maintained to reflect the care, treatment, advice and tests provided.
Service Development
Implementation
-
Supervise, assess, mentor and support other
Health Care Professionals including bank and agency staff in the clinical
setting.
-
Engage in any internal quality assurance and
patient safety activities such as audits and incident reporting encouraging
others to do the same.
-
Monitors the quality of work in own area and
alerts others to quality issues, reporting any concerns to the appropriate
person.
-
Contribute to improving services and be aware of
planned service improvements.
Financial Resources
-
Monitor the use of resources when prescribing,
implementing care and treatments. Inform
the Team Leader of deviations from the budget and initiate action plans to
maintain financial control.
Information Resources
-
To ensure data is recorded accurately and timely
into maternity records and hospital information systems.
-
Attend training and updates on implementation of
Maternity Information system.
-
Maintain confidentiality.
Research and
Development
-
Has knowledge of the audit process and methods
of critically appraising research.
-
Demonstrate clinical competence and fitness for
purpose.
-
Be involved in clinical audit and evaluation of
practice in the clinical area.
-
Promote and disseminate research and audit
findings.
-
Contribute ideas and undertake monitoring with
regards to quality of women centred care.
Professional
Development
-
Demonstrate awareness in dealing with interpersonal
conflict and adverse situations/incidents.
-
Provide a positive learning environment,
participate in teaching and act as a clinical resource/role model.
-
In association with Universities of Bournemouth
and Southampton take responsibility for the provision of effective mentorship,
auditing the clinical learning environment and actioning outcomes.
-
Provide support to Team Leader and Practice
Development Midwife in the facilitation and provision of statutory training and
education.
-
Participate in formal and informal review of own
performance with designated team leader through personal development
plans/knowledge and skills framework.
Other
-
Possess highly developed physical skills
requiring accuracy precision and co-ordination, i.e. performing episiotomies,
suturing, facilitating birth, injections, cannulation.
-
Frequently required to assist in the movement of
women/equipment requiring bursts of moderate effort.
-
Frequently required to use unpredictable levels
of concentration and respond to emergency situations.
- Occasionally required to deal with distressing
situations including child protection and difficult family situations.
- Required to work in highly unpleasant working
conditions, dealing with body fluids and foul linen as well as infectious
material.
- Facilitating birth frequently requires the
midwife to adopt different postures and alternative positions of stance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The band 6 role requires the midwife to continually develop
and progress their clinical competencies and leadership skills in all areas of
midwifery practice.
Professional
Leadership & Communication
-
On completion of competency act as midwife in
charge as required in rotation, participating in the allocation of workload
and ensuring efficient caseload management and effective patient care.
-
Work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary
team, ensuring effective communication.
-
Provide on call cover as per service need.
-
Take charge of the clinical area with the
support of and in the absence of senior members of staff.
-
Ensure professional and clinical standards are
maintained and developed in response to new evidence.
-
Act as an expert practitioner and professional
role model, demonstrate advanced clinical skills, promote clinical excellence
and ensure an optimum standard of midwifery care is delivered across the
maternity pathway.
-
Establish and maintain relationships with women,
families and the multi-professional team.
-
Demonstrate the ability to motivate, negotiate
and train others.
-
Empower women to make informed choices and act
as an advocate as required.
Women Centred Care
-
Using a woman focused approach assess, plan,
implement and evaluate individual programmes of care, ensuring clinical
practice is clinically effective and research based.
-
Develop multidisciplinary maternity guidelines
through active participation in relevant PODS/forums/focus groups and the
dissemination of knowledge.
-
Demonstrate a commitment to evidence based
practice, highlight areas for change, then initiate and evaluate evidence to
improve and develop woman centred care.
-
Promote health education within the clinical area
and be able to advise the women, families and others in health promotion.
-
Develop and strengthen interpersonal relationships
with all members of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring good team working,
collaborative working practices and professionalism through liaison with
associated services including child Protection, Social Services, teenage
pregnancy groups etc.
-
Comply with NMC standards for records are
maintained to reflect the care, treatment, advice and tests provided.
Service Development
Implementation
-
Supervise, assess, mentor and support other
Health Care Professionals including bank and agency staff in the clinical
setting.
-
Engage in any internal quality assurance and
patient safety activities such as audits and incident reporting encouraging
others to do the same.
-
Monitors the quality of work in own area and
alerts others to quality issues, reporting any concerns to the appropriate
person.
-
Contribute to improving services and be aware of
planned service improvements.
Financial Resources
-
Monitor the use of resources when prescribing,
implementing care and treatments. Inform
the Team Leader of deviations from the budget and initiate action plans to
maintain financial control.
Information Resources
-
To ensure data is recorded accurately and timely
into maternity records and hospital information systems.
-
Attend training and updates on implementation of
Maternity Information system.
-
Maintain confidentiality.
Research and
Development
-
Has knowledge of the audit process and methods
of critically appraising research.
-
Demonstrate clinical competence and fitness for
purpose.
-
Be involved in clinical audit and evaluation of
practice in the clinical area.
-
Promote and disseminate research and audit
findings.
-
Contribute ideas and undertake monitoring with
regards to quality of women centred care.
Professional
Development
-
Demonstrate awareness in dealing with interpersonal
conflict and adverse situations/incidents.
-
Provide a positive learning environment,
participate in teaching and act as a clinical resource/role model.
-
In association with Universities of Bournemouth
and Southampton take responsibility for the provision of effective mentorship,
auditing the clinical learning environment and actioning outcomes.
-
Provide support to Team Leader and Practice
Development Midwife in the facilitation and provision of statutory training and
education.
-
Participate in formal and informal review of own
performance with designated team leader through personal development
plans/knowledge and skills framework.
Other
-
Possess highly developed physical skills
requiring accuracy precision and co-ordination, i.e. performing episiotomies,
suturing, facilitating birth, injections, cannulation.
-
Frequently required to assist in the movement of
women/equipment requiring bursts of moderate effort.
-
Frequently required to use unpredictable levels
of concentration and respond to emergency situations.
- Occasionally required to deal with distressing
situations including child protection and difficult family situations.
- Required to work in highly unpleasant working
conditions, dealing with body fluids and foul linen as well as infectious
material.
- Facilitating birth frequently requires the
midwife to adopt different postures and alternative positions of stance.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Effective team building skills.
- Interpersonal skills.
- Articulate and knowledgeable in current health care issues.
- Skill in organising resources and establishing priorities.
- The ability to work using own initiative and without supervision.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Skill in organising resources and establishing priorities.
- Ability to develop and maintain record keeping systems and procedures.
- Ability to make clinical decisional judgments.
- An understanding of the political sensitivities of the Trust.
- Ability to demonstrate confidentiality and trustworthiness.
- Ability to calmly identify priorities and react accordingly.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Effective communicator both orally and on paper.
- Skills in motivating self and others.
- Skills in working with cross functional teams.
- Well-developed influencing skills across disciplines.
- Good management skills.
- Ability to act and ensure delivery of maternity services.
- Responsive and flexible attitude and approach.
Qualifications
Essential
- Current RM registration with the NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications.
- Minimum of 1 year post RM qualification with evidence of continuing learning.
Experience
Essential
- Able to meet the following competencies with a minimum of 4 assessed and signed off as competent at commencement of band 6 post, the remaining competencies will be needed to be achieved within 2 years of qualification:
- Perineal repair and completion of suturing workshop/OASI training.
- Perform and interpret intermittent fetal heart auscultation and CTGs.
- Perform IV Cannulation, venepuncture and administration of IV drugs.
- Management of PCEA Epidurals.
- Conducting labour in water and water birth.
- Parent Education.
- Conduct and manage antenatal ward/clinics.
- Assist as scrub midwife for obstetric surgery.
- Able to coach students and new staff members.
- Evidence of ward management/teaching (formal/informal).
- Teaching and assessing course.
- Provide support to bereaved families, including labour care MTOP and IUD.
- Completed IA and CTG E-Learning for health and completion of Fetal monitoring mandatory training.
- Complete E learning package for ATAIN.
- Other professional courses relevant to area.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Effective team building skills.
- Interpersonal skills.
- Articulate and knowledgeable in current health care issues.
- Skill in organising resources and establishing priorities.
- The ability to work using own initiative and without supervision.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Skill in organising resources and establishing priorities.
- Ability to develop and maintain record keeping systems and procedures.
- Ability to make clinical decisional judgments.
- An understanding of the political sensitivities of the Trust.
- Ability to demonstrate confidentiality and trustworthiness.
- Ability to calmly identify priorities and react accordingly.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Effective communicator both orally and on paper.
- Skills in motivating self and others.
- Skills in working with cross functional teams.
- Well-developed influencing skills across disciplines.
- Good management skills.
- Ability to act and ensure delivery of maternity services.
- Responsive and flexible attitude and approach.
Qualifications
Essential
- Current RM registration with the NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications.
- Minimum of 1 year post RM qualification with evidence of continuing learning.
Experience
Essential
- Able to meet the following competencies with a minimum of 4 assessed and signed off as competent at commencement of band 6 post, the remaining competencies will be needed to be achieved within 2 years of qualification:
- Perineal repair and completion of suturing workshop/OASI training.
- Perform and interpret intermittent fetal heart auscultation and CTGs.
- Perform IV Cannulation, venepuncture and administration of IV drugs.
- Management of PCEA Epidurals.
- Conducting labour in water and water birth.
- Parent Education.
- Conduct and manage antenatal ward/clinics.
- Assist as scrub midwife for obstetric surgery.
- Able to coach students and new staff members.
- Evidence of ward management/teaching (formal/informal).
- Teaching and assessing course.
- Provide support to bereaved families, including labour care MTOP and IUD.
- Completed IA and CTG E-Learning for health and completion of Fetal monitoring mandatory training.
- Complete E learning package for ATAIN.
- Other professional courses relevant to area.
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).
