Job summary
Job Title: Band 6 Integrated Midwife
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week (Full Time and Part Time hours are available)
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Closing Date: 13th December 2024
Interview Date: 20th December 2025
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
#JoinTeamEliot
We are recruiting Band 6 midwives to come and join our wonderful workforce here at George Eliot.
Why join us at George Eliot? We deliver 2100 babies per year. Our service includes our community teams, ante-natal clinic, maternity assessment unit, Drayton our inpatient ward, triage, and labour suite. We have significantly developed our senior leadership team and our team of specialist midwives to deliver excellent holistic woman-centred care within a psychologically safe and excellent environment for our much-valued staff.
Main duties of the job
We offer a full induction programme and orientation to all of our areas within our maternity service.One of the team or I are more than happy to show you around our maternity unit, please do get in touch.
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
About us
Our maternity service has received significant investment over the past year which includes the addition of new specialist roles and the investment into our estate to include new theatres, the refurbishment of our inpatient maternity ward and the relocation of our triage department which is due to start this year.
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.
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 part of 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 note that this list is not exhaustive, for more information please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
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 part of 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 note that this list is not exhaustive, for more information please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Motivated, enthusiastic and committed to the department
- Takes responsibility for own actions and promotes good team working
- Effective time management
Other Qualities
Essential
- Able to effectively manage work-based stressful situations, both in self and others - liaising with outside agencies when appropriate.
- To participate in on-call rota (when required)
- Dealing 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.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- High standard midwifery skills
- Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality issues
- Able to work across professional team and organisational boundaries
- Able to problem solve and initiate change
Qualification and Professional Training
Essential
- Evidence of ongoing relevant continuing professional development, linked to demonstrate clinical competencies
- Registered Band 6 midwife
- Possession of a relevant degree or studying towards it
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Good level of post registration experience including experience within relevant clinical environment
- Previous experience of participating in research and audit
- Knowledge of safeguarding children procedures
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Motivated, enthusiastic and committed to the department
- Takes responsibility for own actions and promotes good team working
- Effective time management
Other Qualities
Essential
- Able to effectively manage work-based stressful situations, both in self and others - liaising with outside agencies when appropriate.
- To participate in on-call rota (when required)
- Dealing 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.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- High standard midwifery skills
- Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality issues
- Able to work across professional team and organisational boundaries
- Able to problem solve and initiate change
Qualification and Professional Training
Essential
- Evidence of ongoing relevant continuing professional development, linked to demonstrate clinical competencies
- Registered Band 6 midwife
- Possession of a relevant degree or studying towards it
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Good level of post registration experience including experience within relevant clinical environment
- Previous experience of participating in research and audit
- Knowledge of safeguarding children procedures
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).
