Do you want the opportunity to use your expert midwifery skills and knowledge to empower women in their birth choices?

The Manchester Birth Centre are looking for band 6 midwives to join our enthusiastic and established team!

We are passionate about providing excellent midwife-led care, supporting each other to learn, and developing our service to meet the needs of our women and their families in our busy, alongside Birth Centre. Our team are proud to have supported at 530 births last year.

We can offer flexible working including permanent nights and/or part time hours.

Main duties of the job

You will join a well established team of supportive Midwives and Maternity Support Workers, providing midwife-led care in a busy, alongside Birth Centre.

You will provide high quality antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care. You will participate in the triaging of low-risk women in labour, empowering women in their birth choices, supporting physiological birth, undertaking NIPE examinations, supporting student and preceptorship midwives, and become a valuable member of our team.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of �2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity MattersMFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of multi-disciplinary/multi agency working
• Experience of research activities
• Experience of clinical audit

Desirable

• Evidence of leadership skills

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Graduate level
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• NIPE trained
• Supporting & assessing learners in practice
• Experience of low risk care
• Experience and competence facilitating waterbirth

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Record keeping and documentation
• Ability to make calm rational decisions in the face of adversity
• Able to work flexibly rotating on to day and night duty
• Treats colleagues with dignity and respect
• Capacity to work within a multidisciplinary team
• Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
• Evidence of teaching and assessing skills/ability
• Clinically competent Proven workload management of self Proven ability to problem solve
• Effective organisational skills Good analytical and clinical decision making skills
• Awareness of Clinical Governance process IT skills

Employer details

Employer name

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wythenshawe Hospital

Saint Mary's at Wythenshawe, Wythenshawe Hospital, Southmoor Road

Manchester

M23 9LT

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

349-SMH-6615083*