Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: pro rata per annum
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Weekdays and weekend working)
- Job ref
- 343-6640647-UB-RB-Y-A
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Epsom Hospital
- Town
- Epsom Surrey
- Salary
- £42,939 - £50,697 pa inc HCAS ( outer London) pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Community Midwife - St Helier
Band 6
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
The postholder is responsible to the Matron and the Team leader and will assist him/her to provide a high standard of midwifery care in the community setting. The successful candidate will work in a community team providing care to antenatal women in clinics and postnatal women and their babies
The postholder will be expected to carry out all relevant forms of midwifery care and will supervise other midwives, preceptors, maternity assistants and students as necessary
Main duties of the job
Community Midwife- Band 6 : 30hours/week
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
At Epsom and St Helier we pride ourselves in offering flexible working arrangements, a robust in service training package, appropriate ratios for statutory supervision of midwives and a positive working culture.
We are looking recruit a Band 6 midwife at St Helier hospital site into one of our three community midwifery teams. If you want to work in community, this is an excellent opportunity for you to support antenatal women through their pregnancy journey in the community and to delivering postnatal care to women at home/ postnatal clinics during the postnatal period. We use Badgernet to document our care and we are a BFI Gold accredited Trust
If you are interested and would like to know more information then please contact me to discuss further, I look forward to speaking to you.
Working for our organisation
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Community Midwife role. Please contact me to discuss the role
Person specification
Questions based
Essential criteria
- Qualifications
Desirable criteria
- Extra professional training
previous experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical
Desirable criteria
- previous clinical experience
questions
Essential criteria
- Scenario questions
Desirable criteria
- clinical based questions
Questions
Essential criteria
- Equality & Diversity questions
Desirable criteria
- Team working based question
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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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
- Patience Ohikhena
- Job title
- Lead Midwife for Antenatal and Screening Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07975 232022
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