Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Community Midwife- Flexible Working

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Job summary

Would you like to work flexibly as a Community Midwife? Northumbria Trust can offer the possibility of working condensed hours, school hours or staggered start and finish times to support a positive work/life balance. We care for our maternity workforce and have many staff benefits including, Project Joy - looking after our maternity work force, access to a staff gym / classes and Fleet solutions.

Full or Part time Posts are available within North Tyneside Community areas and Wansbeck Community areas.

Would you like to be part of a multi award winning NHS Foundation Trust that was awarded Outstanding by the CQC twice?

We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced and dynamic midwives to join the community team in Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. You will have an excellent clinical knowledge base, high level communication, organisational skills, and excellent time management. You should be passionate about delivering high, quality ante natal, intrapartum and post-natal care, achieving the highest possible patient experience. You will need to be able to demonstrate recent clinical experience, have the requisite level of competencies at band 6 and provide evidence of on-going professional development. NLS, ALSO and NIPE trained would be desirable. Further education is encouraged, including support to attend relevant courses to maintain personal and professional development to meet service needs.

Main duties of the job

The vacancies are in community teams working on a traditional model of ante natal, postnatal care and homebirth with the objective of moving to a Continuity model of care in the future, joining the current continuity teams within Northumbria-Healthcare Trust.

The successful candidate will have the responsibility of planning and delivering the ante natal and post natal care to a caseload of women, in line with Saving babies lives care bundle 2, the maternity transformation programme the opportunity with the ongoing development of continuity of care models to deliver the Better Births vision. There are opportunities to deliver intrapartum care in the home. The maternity service has a strong public health element which supports breastfeeding, smoking cessation, BAME and encourages active lifestyles for families.

Opportunity to rotate to the birthing centre within the innovative Northumbria specialist emergency care hospital and dedicated time to complete mandatory training.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Details

Date posted

25 August 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year pro rata per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

319-5589876KD

Job locations

North Tyneside General Hospital & Wansbeck General Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields

NE28 8NH


Job description

Job responsibilities

To assume responsibility for the devolved management of a caseloadincluding the assessment of care needs, the implementation of evidence based programme of care in the absence of the Band 7 Midwife.

To supervise, support and educate junior members of the team.

To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Midwives Rules and Standards.

To be responsible for all midwifery care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.

To participate in on-call hospital/community rota.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisationalboundaries.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To assume responsibility for the devolved management of a caseloadincluding the assessment of care needs, the implementation of evidence based programme of care in the absence of the Band 7 Midwife.

To supervise, support and educate junior members of the team.

To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Midwives Rules and Standards.

To be responsible for all midwifery care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.

To participate in on-call hospital/community rota.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisationalboundaries.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • 1 st Level live NMC Registered Midwife
  • Registered mentor. Mentorship Qualification or relevant equivalent qualification. (essential requirement or must be gained within 12 months of appointment)
  • Diploma or degree or equivalent relevant experience

Desirable

  • Leadership Course
  • Management Course
  • Examination of newborn babies or working towards
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • 1 st Level live NMC Registered Midwife
  • Registered mentor. Mentorship Qualification or relevant equivalent qualification. (essential requirement or must be gained within 12 months of appointment)
  • Diploma or degree or equivalent relevant experience

Desirable

  • Leadership Course
  • Management Course
  • Examination of newborn babies or working towards

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).

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.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

North Tyneside General Hospital & Wansbeck General Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields

NE28 8NH


Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

North Tyneside General Hospital & Wansbeck General Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields

NE28 8NH


Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinical Lead Midwife/Modern Matron

Marie McMorran

marie.mmorran@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk

07771671830

Details

Date posted

25 August 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year pro rata per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

319-5589876KD

Job locations

North Tyneside General Hospital & Wansbeck General Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields

NE28 8NH


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