Band 6 Senior Midwife - Maternity Triage/DAU

Job summary

Maternity Triage Band 6 Senior Midwives

Maternity Triage have an exciting opportunity for Senior Band 6 Midwives who thrive on fast paced, mixed risk with excellent organisational and communication skills our team.

Kingston Maternity is a popular service with approximately 5000 births per annum. The NHS Maternity Services Survey 2023 rated Kingston in the top 3 performing maternity services within London. Leadership is strong and well respected and there is a culture of learning and a desire to improve the service.

Kingston is proud of its strong multi-disciplinary (MDT) culture. We provide a well evaluated, in-house MDT programme and staff can attend external study days or enrol for academic modules at our local higher education institutes.

Kingston Maternity Triage began the implementation of BSOTS, a systematic process for effective triaging in 2020. The Maternity Helpline has successfully been in use since 2022, with a designated midwife answering calls on day shifts, run by the Triage core team of midwives. This year we have built a new Maternity Triage in line with the BSOTS/RCOG guidelines for maternity triaging, and therefore need to expand our core team. The core team for Triage will also cover the Maternity helpline and the Day Assessment Unit during the month. This provides a variety to the role, whilst remaining on the frontline.

Main duties of the job

Some of the main duties of the job are to provide women and babies with high quality, safe midwifery care. The care will be evidence based and holistic. In the absence of a Band 7 Team Leader, lead the team and manage the workload in the unit.

All candidates will need to demonstrate sound leadership and excellent communication skills, act as a role model to colleagues, practice a culture of safety through excellent cross boundary respect and working conditions, provide clinical support for Birth Centre, work closely with all Team Leaders, Delivery suite Co-ordinators and Senior Midwives.

Please be aware that this post requires you to work a mixture of day and night shifts, weekends, and bank holidays.

About us

Kingston Hospital - First Acute Trust in London to be rated Outstanding by CQC for Overall Quality and Leadership

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country - close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames.We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.

We employ 3,300+ staff who proudly and efficiently support over 350,000 people locally through a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and we have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare, particularly in 'patient-focused' care, day surgery and maternity services.

Health and Wellbeing & Staff Benefits

The Trust understands that benefits go beyond just financial rewards and offers a wide range of benefits that recognise staff contribution, provide opportunities for career development and offer initiatives to promote a healthy work-life balance.-Our Health Heroes Awards 2018 - Staff Retention and Wellbeing Employer of the Year.-HPMA Vivup Award for Well Being 2019.

Trust Values

Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has five key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are:

- Caring- Safe - Responsible - Value Each Other-Inspiring

Employer details

Employer name

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kingston Maternity Unit

Galsworthy Road

Kingston upon Thames

KT2 7QB

Employer's website

https://kingstonhospital.nhs.uk/work-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kingston Maternity Unit

Galsworthy Road

Kingston upon Thames

KT2 7QB

Employer's website

https://kingstonhospital.nhs.uk/work-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

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