Band 6 Rainbow Midwife INTERNAL ONLY

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 06 March 2025

Job summary

Internal only

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic midwife to join the rainbow team. The post holder will work as a skilled practitioner, responsible for the delivery of women-focused care for those who meet the criteria for the Rainbow Service. The post holder is required to be an autonomous, accountable practitioner who will be part of the Rainbow Midwifery team supporting the Band 7 midwives in offering compassionate and knowledgeable antenatal care and continuity for women and their families using these services.

Main duties of the job

Will be an autonomous, accountable practitioner responsible for providing routine and additional antenatal care for women who meet the criteria for Rainbow Care Pathway. Working closely and effectively within the MDT to ensure that individual pathways of care are coordinated and safely undertaken.

The post holder will support the Band 7 Rainbow Midwives in enabling the objectives of the Rainbow service according to the trust guidelines, by ensuring that all women and families receive safe, competent and compassionate care.

The Successful applicant will be responsible for facilitating the administrative requirements within these teams including phone/email contact with families, data collection and ensuring all necessary referrals and other clinical and administrative processes are updated and completed in a timely manner.

Excellent personal communication skills are essential to ensure that sensitive and trauma-informed communication is shared with women/birthing people and families as they navigate complex pregnancy journeys. Appropriate advocacy and assertiveness must be demonstrated to ensure that individual needs are appropriately met.

About us

Our Maternity Vision is'Working together with women, birthing people and families to offer compassionate, supportive care and informed choice; striving for equity and excellence in our maternity service.'

The Maternity unit deliver just under 5000 babies a year. We provide care for a diverse population across West Berkshire. Part of our maternity strategy is equity in access and outcomes tackling the multiple dimensions that affect local healthcare inequalities.

The unit comprises of a delivery suite, midwife led birth centre, postnatal and antenatal wards, outpatients and Day Assessment Unit. We have a very successful home birth service, specialist teams to support vulnerable women and continuity of care teams.

We have developed a 'seeking sanctuary ' service which is a mutidisciplinary approach to providing care to pregnant women seeking sanctuary in the UK and their families. This service was presented as good practice in the NHS three year delivery plan.

We have an established joint led services for rainbow, bereavement, diabetes, fetal medicine, pre term birth.

We are strongly committed to developing our services and ensuring the those that work with us are given support and development opportunities.

Date posted

20 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

193-7004974UCGB6-MIDWIFE

Job locations

Royal Berkshire Hospital, Maternity Block

Craven Road

Reading

RG1 5AN

Job description

Job responsibilities

The job description is included which provides more details for the role and specification.

Providing specialist individualised care to women who meet the criteria for the rainbow care pathway from booking to delivery.

Working closely with member of the MDT to ensure the objectives of the Rainbow service are achieved according to the Trust guidelines

Job description

Job responsibilities

The job description is included which provides more details for the role and specification.

Providing specialist individualised care to women who meet the criteria for the rainbow care pathway from booking to delivery.

Working closely with member of the MDT to ensure the objectives of the Rainbow service are achieved according to the Trust guidelines

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Midwife

Experience

Essential

Excellent interpersonal skills with particular ability to liaise effectively with multidisciplinary team members

Skills

Essential

Ability to cope with daily experience of families dealing with grief and trauma
Ability to make decisions, organise and prioritise
Computer Literacy

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Midwife

Experience

Essential

Excellent interpersonal skills with particular ability to liaise effectively with multidisciplinary team members

Skills

Essential

Ability to cope with daily experience of families dealing with grief and trauma
Ability to make decisions, organise and prioritise
Computer Literacy

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).