Midwife for Midwifery Led Unit

Women, Children and Young People

Care Group: Women & Children's Service

Band: 6

Salary: �37,338 - �44,962 per annum/pro rata

We are recruiting for Core Team members for our co-located Midwifery Led Unit who share our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and have the drive to help take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Medway Maternity services support approximately 5,000 women and babies per annum. We are forward thinking with motivated staff who strive to improve the quality of the service that we offer to our women, their babies and their families. We have achieved and sustained Baby Friendly Initiative Stage 3 and are now working to maintain this, and provide professional development opportunities for all levels of staff.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Would you like to be part of our dynamic Core Team on our Midwife Led Unit who are focused on creating a holistic and individualised experience?

Giving women choice in their place of birth, birth choices and autonomy can lead onto a positive birthing experience. We embrace and support the use of non - pharmacological analgesia, including, aromatherapy, water immersion and hypnobirthing.

We are a small Core Team of midwives who are passionate about supporting birthing people's choice in a low risk environment. We are looking for experienced midwives, who share this passion and feel confident in facilitating physiological labour and birth for families who have had low risk pregnancies or those with additional risk factors that are accessing The Birth Place with a Personalised Care Support Plan. As a member of the core team you will help drive forward this important service which is growing and developing in our post-Covid recovery.

We are a flexible team and support other areas of the unit as required. It will be expected that you may need to work in other areas of Maternity, depending on activity, and will contribute to an on-call system for the hospital.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

About us

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Careby the Best of People providing excellent care, every time ?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared visionis achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First.Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient Firstdeployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B - Bold

E - Every person counts

S - Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work in our Midwifery Led Unit providing safe and effective care to women, birthing people and their families and advocating for them when needed.

To act as the professional lead, promoting physiological birth.

Demonstrating a positive attitude and high level of motivation by showing a strong commitment to the service.

To work closely with the ward Manager and Matron to facilitate developing services.

We are looking for midwives with exceptional communication skills whowill be working alongside consultant midwives and obstetricians to support individualised care using personal care plans. It is important to be interested in and passionate about providing choice and safety, facilitating this the best way we can.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife

Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrates awareness of key issues currently impacting on the midwifery profession and service
• Demostrates understanding of national & local guidelines, policies & procedures

Experience

Essential

• Experience of providing midwifery care in both hospital and community services.
• Experience in providing midwifery care to mothers experiencing normal pregnancy and birth and those requiring obstetric care.

Skills

Essential

• Good communication skills
• Positive attitude to personal growth & development

Values Based Question

Essential

• Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a 'can do' attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome

Employer details

Employer name

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Windmill Road

Gillingham

ME7 5NY

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