Antenatal Clinic Midwife

Job responsibilities

We are committed to providing high quality care for women and families; ensuring our practice and research addresses local needs through continual engagement with women, their families and our teams. The job description includes

To provide high quality, safe, care for all pregnant women and their families in a variety of settings.

To offer models of care personalised to individual need, promoting equality and respecting the diversity of the client groups.

To co-ordinate clinic and ensure the smooth journey for the women attending clinic.

Work as part of the multidisciplinary team, supporting the medical staff within the clinic setting.

Tracking and auctioning of blood results. .

Working as part of the team within clinic, supporting the maternity support workers, sonographers and admin staff.

Any other duty as reasonably required.

To effectively communicate complicated and sensitive information to women, their families and members of a multi-disciplinary team.

Adhere to and encourage others to utilize appropriate NMC and local standards for record keeping and all written documentation ensuring client and colleague confidentiality at all times.

Deal appropriately with positive and negative feedback from women, recognising the wider implications for the team. Ensure changes are implemented based on feedback and learning lessons.

Work as a team member to develop a working environment that encourages team working amongst staff. Identify and minimise interpersonal conflicts that may affect team or individual performance.

Provide cover for colleagues as necessary, including out of hours coveron a rotational basis, ensuring appropriate liaison to maintain continuity of care.

Able to demonstrate effective multi-disciplinary team working skills and abilities to ensure agreed objectives are achieved. Utilises others to address challenges within the working team.

Liaise, communicate and work in partnership with a variety of multi-agency teams

Contribute to the performance management of antenatal servicesby ensuring data collection and audit information is submitted in a timelymanner

Provide evidence based midwifery care to women and their babies with the responsibility for assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.

Able to manage effectively all aspects of clinical practice.

Working in partnership with women and their partners, offer opportunities for them to make well informed decisions about their care throughout pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.

Able to implement changes in midwifery practice to improve health outcomes for mothers and their babies.

To work autonomously within guidelines, policies and procedures and spheres of professional practice when carrying out midwifery care. Contribute to their development, implementation and evaluation.

Work within Nottingham City Safeguarding Childrens Board procedures at all times. Know how to record and share information and understand the differences between information sharing on individual, organisational and professional levels.

Utilise multi-agency frameworks and child protection assessment processes including the use of the common assessment framework.

Work in partnership with other agencies to provide effective parent education programmes.

Able to manage effectively expectations of women and their families.

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy

Training & Qualifications

Essential

• Registered and practising midwife

Desirable

• Supporting Learning and Assessment in practice; Preparation for 'sign-off' mentors or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Experience in dealing with safeguarding issues
• Portfolio demonstrating continuous personal, professional and academic development
• Knowledge of NHS and Trust priorities and future vision
• Competency at a level of NMC standards of proficiency.
• Ability to track results and action findings.

Desirable

• Experience of working in a clinic setting.
• Experience in antenatal education
• Evidence of mentorship and preceptorship

Communication and Relationship skills

Essential

• Effective team worker
• Positive role model
• Communicate well with the multidisciplinary team.

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential

• Able to respond, prioritise and analyse complex problems/situations relating to the care of mothers and ensure effective interventions are put in place

Planning and organisation skills

Essential

• Able to lead a team efficiently and effectively to ensure the smooth running of clinic.
• Able to prioritise and has effective time management skills

Desirable

• Able to respond, prioritise and analyse complex problems/situations relating to the care of mothers and ensure effective interventions are put in place

Physical skills

Essential

• Computer literate - can use emails effectively
• Ability to rotate to all areas of maternity on both sites
• Ability to work on both campuses

Desirable

• Has IT systems experience.

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

Essential

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's behavioural standards

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).