Job summary
Job Title: Integrated Midwife with a Specialist Interest in Maternity Triage
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary:£35,392- £42,618 per annum
Please note if you commence in post prior to October
2024, you will be paid in line with 2023/2024 agenda for change pay scales.
Closing Date: 10th September 2024
Interview Date: 19th September 2024
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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Main duties of the job
Come and join our friendly, professional, and caring team at the George Eliot Maternity Unit.
The successful post holder will provide ante-natal, post-natal and intrapartum care to women with low and high-risk pregnancies.
They will rotate through all areas of the services as required including Continuity of Carer and Community and will be supported by the newly appointed midwifery retention support midwife.
You will also have access to the lead Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) and a team of PMAs for additional support if/when required.
We are a unit who provide personalised care for women, babies and their families ensuring a first class service and experience. The benefits include:
- Dynamic and supportive management team
- Forward thinking in response to new national initiatives, including the saving babies lives care bundle
- Provision of preceptorship for newly qualified members of the team
- Named professional midwifery advocate
- On-going professional development and support
- Rotation and integration within all areas of the service
If you would like to be part of this successful, flexible, friendly team, whether you are a newly qualified or experienced midwife we would like to hear from you.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' taking centre stage. An ever evolving clinically led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:
Effective open communication
Excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will provide high quality integrated midwifery care in both hospital and community settings as required for mothers, babies and their families throughout pregnancy, labour, the postnatal period, this may be partof an integrated continuity of carer team as required by service needs.
- Act as the womans advocate in promoting, and delivering the highest standard of midwifery care, ensuring all fundamentals of care are addressed, and current, relevant policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Using evidence-based practice, assess the womans physical, psychological and spiritual needs, plan, implement and evaluate midwifery care involving the woman and her family, as appropriate.
- Write reports, record observations and maintain plans of care, including electronic data storage; and other appropriate records, accurately, legibly, concisely and contemporaneously.
- Monitor the womans condition, interpret observations and identify deviations from normal. Report and refer to relevant health professionals, carrying out midwifery interventions as needed.
- Keep the woman and her family informed, when appropriate maintaining client confidentiality.
- Ensure midwifery care is flexible to meet the diverse needs of women.
- Undertake clinical skills, as per the trusts Health Board Policy, relevant to role and the womans care.
Please see attached job description and person specification for further details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will provide high quality integrated midwifery care in both hospital and community settings as required for mothers, babies and their families throughout pregnancy, labour, the postnatal period, this may be partof an integrated continuity of carer team as required by service needs.
- Act as the womans advocate in promoting, and delivering the highest standard of midwifery care, ensuring all fundamentals of care are addressed, and current, relevant policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Using evidence-based practice, assess the womans physical, psychological and spiritual needs, plan, implement and evaluate midwifery care involving the woman and her family, as appropriate.
- Write reports, record observations and maintain plans of care, including electronic data storage; and other appropriate records, accurately, legibly, concisely and contemporaneously.
- Monitor the womans condition, interpret observations and identify deviations from normal. Report and refer to relevant health professionals, carrying out midwifery interventions as needed.
- Keep the woman and her family informed, when appropriate maintaining client confidentiality.
- Ensure midwifery care is flexible to meet the diverse needs of women.
- Undertake clinical skills, as per the trusts Health Board Policy, relevant to role and the womans care.
Please see attached job description and person specification for further details.
Person Specification
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- oGood level of post registration experience including experience within relevant clinical environment
- oPrevious experience of participating in research and audit
- oKnowledge of safeguarding children procedures
Qualification and Professional Training
Essential
- oEvidence of ongoing relevant continuing professional development, linked to demonstrate clinical competencies
- oRegistered band 6 midwife
- oPossession of a relevant degree or studying towards it
Skills and abilities
Essential
- oHigh standard midwifery skills
- oUnderstanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality issues
- oAble to work across professional team and organisational boundaries
- oAble to problem solve and initiate change
Personal Qualities
Essential
- oMotivated, enthusiastic and committed to the department
- oTakes responsibility for own actions and promotes good team working
- oEffective time management
Other qualities
Essential
- oAble to effectively manage work-based stressful situations, both in self and others - liaising with outside agencies when appropriate.
- oTo participate in on-call rota (when required)
- oDealing with death/bad news. Ability to sensitively inform service users on emotional and complex issues such as stillbirth, maternal and neonatal death, diagnosis and treatment, complaints investigation and resolution.
Person Specification
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- oGood level of post registration experience including experience within relevant clinical environment
- oPrevious experience of participating in research and audit
- oKnowledge of safeguarding children procedures
Qualification and Professional Training
Essential
- oEvidence of ongoing relevant continuing professional development, linked to demonstrate clinical competencies
- oRegistered band 6 midwife
- oPossession of a relevant degree or studying towards it
Skills and abilities
Essential
- oHigh standard midwifery skills
- oUnderstanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality issues
- oAble to work across professional team and organisational boundaries
- oAble to problem solve and initiate change
Personal Qualities
Essential
- oMotivated, enthusiastic and committed to the department
- oTakes responsibility for own actions and promotes good team working
- oEffective time management
Other qualities
Essential
- oAble to effectively manage work-based stressful situations, both in self and others - liaising with outside agencies when appropriate.
- oTo participate in on-call rota (when required)
- oDealing with death/bad news. Ability to sensitively inform service users on emotional and complex issues such as stillbirth, maternal and neonatal death, diagnosis and treatment, complaints investigation and resolution.
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
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).
