Job summary

We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals like yourself, to join our fantastic and supportive expanding team of Midwives at both our hospital and community at Wexham Park Hospital.

Frimley Health is a great place to work and progress your career in the Midwifery profession. We are the 4th largest trust to deliver maternity services in England, with a dedicated Head of Midwifery at both sites, a team of Matrons and Practice Development team to not only support you, but enable our Midwives, Support Workers to deliver high quality care to all our women and progress the National Maternity Transformation Agenda.

Main duties of the job

• To acknowledge professional accountability by demonstrating and ensuring high standards of practice.
• To be responsible for the assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of care during the antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum periods.
• To facilitate birth either in the hospital or home setting.
• To be the lead professional and be responsible in providing midwife-led care to low risk women.
• To be aware of the need for changes in professional practice, whilst acting as a resource for women, their families and also colleagues. In conjunction with the Practice Development Team analysing personal training needs and making changes to clinical practice where appropriate.
• To participate in the setting, implementing and monitoring of clinical standards.
• To participate in the achievement and maintenance of high standards of service using the task of clinical audit, consumer satisfaction surveys to their full effect.
• To record information accurately, and complete documentation in compliance with the NMC Code.
• To enter information accurately onto the maternity information system

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To acknowledge professional accountability by demonstrating and ensuring high standards of practice.
• To be responsible for the assessment planning, implementation, and evaluation of care during the antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum periods.
• To facilitate birth either in the hospital or home setting
• To be the lead professional and be responsible in providing midwife-led care to low risk women.
• To be aware of the need for changes in professional practice, whilst acting as a resource for women, their families and also colleagues. In conjunction with the Practice Development Team analysing personal training needs and making changes to clinical practice where appropriate.
• To participate in the setting, implementing, and monitoring of clinical standards.
• To participate in the achievement and maintenance of high standards of service using the task of clinical audit, consumer satisfaction surveys to their full effect.
• To record information accurately, and complete documentation in compliance with the NMC Code.
• To enter information accurately onto the maternity information system.

Person Specification

Qualifications/ Training

Essential

• Degree in Midwifery
• Band 6 Midwife

Desirable

• Experience using IT programmes
• BFI trained

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