Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 230-34869832-W&C-A
- Employer
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Town
- Nuneaton
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 23/07/2024
Employer heading
Integrated Midwife
NHS AfC: Band 6
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.
The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
Our vision is "to EXCEL at patient care". If you think you've got what it takes, help us realise this and join #TeamEliot.
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Job overview
Job Title - Integrated Midwife
Hours per week - 37.5
Perm/Fixed Term - Permanent
Salary - £35392 - £42618
Closing Date: 7th July 2024
Interview Date: 23rd July 2024
Is your vision to EXCEL in patient care? Do you have a passion for providing a high quality, safe and effective service? George Eliot Maternity Services are forward thinking and dedicated to innovative practice and Triage has become a forefront to this. Come and join our compassionate and friendly team!
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team, with a special interest in Maternity Triage services. Here at George Eliot, we thrive when working to national standards within Triage and are looking for skilled and dedicated midwives to continue evolving our service further. Although being predominantly based in our 24-hour Triage base, the post will encompass rotation to all areas of the maternity service.
Are you ready to be a part of our amazing service? If so, please apply and we cannot wait to meet you!
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications so you are advised to apply promptly.
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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
Careers at George Eliot – ‘Where you make a difference'
Main duties of the job
Come and join our friendly, professional, and caring team at the George Eliot Maternity Unit.
The successful post holder will provide ante-natal, post-natal and intrapartum care to women with low and high-risk pregnancies. They will rotate through all areas of the services as required including Continuity of Carer and Community and will be supported by the newly appointed midwifery retention support midwife.
You will also have access to the lead Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) and a team of PMAs for additional support if/when required.
We are a unit who provide personalised care for women, babies and their families ensuring a first class service and experience. The benefits include:
- Dynamic and supportive management team
- Forward thinking in response to new national initiatives, including the saving babies lives care bundle
- Provision of preceptorship for newly qualified members of the team
- Named professional midwifery advocate
- On-going professional development and support
- Rotation and integration within all areas of the service
If you would like to be part of this successful, flexible, friendly team, whether you are a newly qualified or experienced midwife we would like to hear from you.
Working for our organisation
Our materntiy service has received significant investment over the past year which includes the addition of new specialist roles and the investment into our estate to include new theatres, the refurbishment of our inpatient maternity ward and the relocation of our triage department which is due to start this year.
Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘excel at patient care’ takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Our benefits include but are not limited to: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will provide high quality integrated midwifery care in both hospital and community settings as required for mothers, babies and their families throughout pregnancy, labour, the postnatal period, this may be part
of an integrated continuity of carer team as required by service needs.
- Act as the woman’s advocate in promoting, and delivering the highest standard of midwifery care, ensuring all fundamentals of care are addressed, and current, relevant policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Using evidence-based practice, assess the woman’s physical, psychological and spiritual needs, plan, implement and evaluate midwifery care involving the woman and her family, as appropriate.
- Write reports, record observations and maintain plans of care, including electronic data storage; and other appropriate records, accurately, legibly, concisely and contemporaneously.
- Monitor the woman’s condition, interpret observations and identify deviations from normal. Report and refer to relevant health professionals, carrying out midwifery interventions as needed.
- Keep the woman and her family informed, when appropriate maintaining client confidentiality.
- Ensure midwifery care is flexible to meet the diverse needs of women.
- Undertake clinical skills, as per the trust’s Health Board Policy, relevant to role and the woman’s care.
Please see attached job description and person specification for further details.
Person specification
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Good level of post registration experience including experience within relevant clinical environment
- • Previous experience of participating in research and audit
- • Knowledge of safeguarding children procedures
Qualification and Professional Training
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of ongoing relevant continuing professional development, linked to demonstrate clinical competencies
- • Registered band 6 midwife
- • Possession of a relevant degree or studying towards it
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- • High standard midwifery skills
- • Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality issues
- • Able to work across professional team and organisational boundaries
- • Able to problem solve and initiate change
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- • Motivated, enthusiastic and committed to the department
- • Takes responsibility for own actions and promotes good team working
- • Effective time management
Other qualities
Essential criteria
- • Able to effectively manage work-based stressful situations, both in self and others – liaising with outside agencies when appropriate.
- • To participate in on-call rota (when required)
- • Dealing with death/bad news. Ability to sensitively inform service users on emotional and complex issues such as stillbirth, maternal and neonatal death, diagnosis and treatment, complaints investigation and resolution.
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
- Jessica Fitton
- Job title
- Maternity Triage Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07825119017
- Additional information
Please contact me on my mobile phone and leave a message if there is no response. I will call you back.
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