Job summary
Band 6 Midwife Antenatal Services Wythenshawe Site
Saint Mary's Hospital Managed Clinical Service is the largest maternity service in the country providing care for women across Manchester, its surrounding areas and the North West. Saint Mary's Hospital is a well-known centre of excellence with a vibrant and lively working atmosphere. We currently have exciting opportunities in Midwifery to include care across the pregnancy continuum including the Manchester Birth Centre and as part of our continuity of care pathway. We provide intrapartum care in all settings from home birth, co-located birth centre to a complex consultant led delivery unit with an integrated high dependency unit.
To join us, you will be an experienced Band 6 Registered Midwife with a desire to specialise in Antenatal services. You'll find working with us extremely rewarding as part of a team dedicated to providing the best possible care and experience to all our patients. You'll be joining our Trust at an exciting time as we grow and improve our services, and you will be able to make a positive contribution to its future success.
To support your career, we offer a wide range of development and educational initiatives that will assist your career here at MFT.
Main duties of the job
MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB
We are strongly committed to all our employees, to ensure they have a robust Personal Professional Development Plan to enhance their prospects and opportunities.
You will have:
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
The ability to support and contribute to a team approach
Excellent time management skills
Experience to manage your own workload
The ability to problem-solve, analyse and resolve issues.
Current NMC registration
In addition to this, you'll be motivated to develop personally and professionally and have exemplary personal standards of conduct.
Feel free to contact us on the details below to arrange a visit.
Thank you for your interest in MFT and we look forward to hearing from you!
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Registration
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of Continuing professional development
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Evidence of working as a Band 6 midwife
- Knowledge of the public health agenda
- Knowledge of multi-agency working together in child protection
Desirable
- Experience of clinical audit
- Experience of research activities
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills
- IT skills
- Capacity to work in a multidisciplinary team. Exemplary personal standards of conduct & behaviour
- Effective organisational skills
- Awareness of clinical governance process
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Motivated to personal and professional development of self and other junior colleagues
- Treats colleagues and the general public with dignity and respect
- Capacity to work with colleagues at all levels
- Enthusiasm and inspirational skills
Person Specification
Registration
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of Continuing professional development
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Evidence of working as a Band 6 midwife
- Knowledge of the public health agenda
- Knowledge of multi-agency working together in child protection
Desirable
- Experience of clinical audit
- Experience of research activities
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills
- IT skills
- Capacity to work in a multidisciplinary team. Exemplary personal standards of conduct & behaviour
- Effective organisational skills
- Awareness of clinical governance process
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Motivated to personal and professional development of self and other junior colleagues
- Treats colleagues and the general public with dignity and respect
- Capacity to work with colleagues at all levels
- Enthusiasm and inspirational skills
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).
