Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 284-25-6885031-COCM-A
- Employer
- Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birmingham Women's Hospital
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Genetic Risk Equity Midwife
NHS AfC: Band 6
Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced Band 6 Registered Midwife with a desire to make a difference. This post will be an extremely rewarding role to be part of a regional programme dedicated to providing the best possible care and experience to all our patients.
Main duties of the job
The Genetic Risk Equity Midwife will proactively work with women from Pakistani ethnic groups and those at greater risk from genetic related disorders, to encourage a greater level of genetic testing/ awareness / literacy among families where consanguineous related genetic disorders are present and will improve access to genetic services for families thereby enable informed reproductive decision-making.
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
You will be motivated to develop personally and professionally and have exemplary personal standards of conduct.
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Other Qualities
Essential criteria
- Empathetic practitioner who reflects on their positioning in relation to winning the trust and confidence of the patients they support
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects, and learns from the contribution of others.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations.
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity considering and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda.
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Clinician with current NMC midwifery registration
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of genetic training/ experience in field of genetics
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas, including an understanding of both genomics/genetics and midwifery
- Specialist knowledge in a relevant subject to post graduate leve
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of health services
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management.
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management and/or health information systems development.
- Workforce development knowledge and experience
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Project
- Previous experience in similar role in public sector
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.
- Evidence of success in effective project and programme management.
- Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence.
- Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
- Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt, and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate
- Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis.
- Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem -solving and analytical skills
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Skills for supporting project management. Previous experience in project management and planning. Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support.
- Skills for managing projects ensuring they meet financial targets.
- Skills for manipulating information.
- Intermediate keyboard skills.
- Ability to work without supervision.
- Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and other workloads to changing and often tight deadlines.
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
Desirable criteria
- Fluent in Urdu, ability to understand and communicate in Urdu/ Punjabi/ Patwari or similar dialects and to ensure those at greater risk from genetic related disorders are supported.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Naz Khan
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Equality, Ethnicity & Genetics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07702407376
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