Job Title: Integrated Midwife with a Specialist Interest in Maternity Triage

Hours per week: 37.50 hours per week

Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent

Salary: �37,338 - �44,962 Per annum

Closing Date: 20th September 2024

Interview Date: 4th October 2024

This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

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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.

About us

Here at George Eliot our vision to ' excel at patient care' taking centre stage. An ever evolving clinically led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:

Effective open communication

Excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits: 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.

Job description

Job 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 partof an integrated continuity of carer team as required by service needs.

Act as the womans 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 womans 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 womans 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 trusts Health Board Policy, relevant to role and the womans care.

Please see attached job description and person specification for further details.

Person Specification

Experience and knowledge

Essential

• oGood level of post registration experience including experience within relevant clinical environment
• oPrevious experience of participating in research and audit
• oKnowledge of safeguarding children procedures

Qualification and Professional Training

Essential

• oEvidence of ongoing relevant continuing professional development, linked to demonstrate clinical competencies
• oRegistered band 6 midwife
• oPossession of a relevant degree or studying towards it

Skills and abilities

Essential

• oHigh standard midwifery skills
• oUnderstanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality issues
• oAble to work across professional team and organisational boundaries
• oAble to problem solve and initiate change

Personal Qualities

Essential

• oMotivated, enthusiastic and committed to the department
• oTakes responsibility for own actions and promotes good team working
• oEffective time management

Other qualities

Essential

• oAble to effectively manage work-based stressful situations, both in self and others - liaising with outside agencies when appropriate.
• oTo participate in on-call rota (when required)
• oDealing 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 details

Employer name

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Address

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

College Street

Nuneaton

CV107DJ

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