Midwife - Newly Qualified

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT

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Job summary

Start your midwifery career in Norfolk and Waveney!

If you are a student midwife qualifying in 2023, then Norfolk and Waveney is the perfect place to start your career. Our three providers of Maternity services - The James Paget Hospital in Great Yarmouth, The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in Norwich and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn are working together to recruit newly qualified midwives in 2023.

Across Norfolk and Waveney, our maternity services support just under 9000 births each year. We're on our journey, as a system, working towards implementing a Continuity of Care model, for all our services users that supports people from pre-conception to birth and beyond.

We offer a range of services across all our system partners that are all tailored to the individual needs of our families, these include our midwifery led and consultant led birthing units, community midwifery hubs and home birth service. There are also other service available at the individual hospitals which can be reviewed through our patient choices leaflet in the documents attached to this advert.

Main duties of the job

Our commitment to quality, safety and professional development is at the forefront of our approach in Norfolk and Waveney and our midwives are well supported by teams of clinical educators and professional midwifery advocates who all help to develop and embed best practice amongst our teams. Once you've qualified and gained your NMC PIN you will start working as Band 5 Midwife and begin your preceptorship to help you achieve the clinical competencies needed to progress to a Band 6 Midwife and there will be lots of support along the way to help you achieve this. Across the three NHS Trusts, you'll also find plenty of opportunities to develop your skills, grow your confidence and pursue a career pathway that is right for you - be that specialist midwife, team leader, Consultant midwife or Head of Midwifery, we're committed to supporting you to achieve your career ambitions.

In 2023, all three NHS Trusts in Norfolk and Waveney will be working together to recruit newly qualified midwives, so that we can make the process of applying for a job and having an interview as simple as possible. If you're shortlisted, you'll then be invited to a Career Conversation where you'll have the opportunity to meet with a representative from each of the 3 NHS Trusts - though your preference for where you would like to work will be shared with the panel, so that we can match you to the right employer.

About us

You may already know about what a brilliant place to live and work in Norfolk and Waveney is. Whether it's our fantastic beaches or the Broads and the rolling countryside around us, or whether you're interested in our historic market towns, vibrant seaside attractions or the fantastic city of Norwich, there is so much to see and do in Norfolk and Waveney. We believe that Norfolk and Waveney can offer any newly qualified midwife the perfect package of a warm welcome, a rewarding career, first- class support and a great place to live. We also believe that our new approach to meeting newly qualified midwives who are interested in working for us will help us understand you so we can support you to get your career off to the perfect start.

So, if you're ready to take the first step in your midwifery career, please complete your application today, making sure that if you have a preference to work with anyone of the three NHS providers of maternity service in Norfolk and Waveney- the James Paget University Hospital, the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital or the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn - you include this in your application.

Date posted

21 February 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£27,055 to £32,934 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

426-279-23ICB

Job locations

Norfolk and Waveney ICB

Gayton Road

Norfolk

PE30 4ET

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a newly qualified midwife we will provide you with a personally developed rotational plan through our maternity unit and into a continuity team to ensure you are able to consolidate, build confidence and gain core competencies to attain the knowledge and skills to enable you to achieve the objectives of our preceptorship package. The post holder has an important role within the maternity team to implement and carry out continuity of carer in line with the national agenda.

The post holder will be responsible as an autonomous practitioner for providing individualised and personalised midwifery care packages, whilst using specialist knowledge to continually assess, analyse and determine the appropriate course of action for a designated client group.

The post holder will be expected to provide high quality evidence based midwifery care and advice antenatally, intrapartum and postnatally, in a variety of setting including hospital, community hubs and home.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Midwife or due to qualify in the next two/three months
Degree/Diploma in Midwifery

Desirable

Teaching and Assessing qualification
Undertaken mentorship training

Experience

Desirable

Relevant Post-Registration clinical experience

Skills/Ability

Essential

Ability to provide holistic midwifery care
Good IT skills and an ability to use trust-wide electronic data systems
Ability to work as part of a team
Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour

Desirable

Teaching, assessment and supervision of others

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of professional issues in midwifery incorporating NMC and IPAC
Awareness of Clinical Governance
Awareness of risk management
Capacity to work with colleagues at all levels
Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour

Location

Essential

Please confirm your location preference: The James Paget University Hospital, the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital or the Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Midwife or due to qualify in the next two/three months
Degree/Diploma in Midwifery

Desirable

Teaching and Assessing qualification
Undertaken mentorship training

Experience

Desirable

Relevant Post-Registration clinical experience

Skills/Ability

Essential

Ability to provide holistic midwifery care
Good IT skills and an ability to use trust-wide electronic data systems
Ability to work as part of a team
Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour

Desirable

Teaching, assessment and supervision of others

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of professional issues in midwifery incorporating NMC and IPAC
Awareness of Clinical Governance
Awareness of risk management
Capacity to work with colleagues at all levels
Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour

Location

Essential

Please confirm your location preference: The James Paget University Hospital, the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital or the Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn

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.