UHB are excited to offer an amazing opportunity for midwives to join our teams on the Midwifery Led Units. We are seeking midwives who are passionate about physiological birth and providing exemplary low risk care to women and their babies.

We are looking to appoint self-motivated, enthusiastic, dynamic Registered Midwives. Facilitating and supporting women's birthplace choices and providing woman centred care is at the heart of our philosophy.

Being led by a supportive management team, we can offer excellent opportunities for further career development in line with NHS England requirements. Supporting and implementing the vision of both Better Births and the Three-year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services thus ensuring the delivery of safe, personalised, and equitable care for women babies and their families.

If you are passionate and driven to provide high quality midwife- led care, we look forward to hearing from you.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will practice as a midwife within the maternity services in University Hospitals Birmingham working day duty, night duty, weekend and bank holidays and participate in on call when working in the community and continuity of care teams. The post holder will work in all areas of maternity service.

To work as an autonomous, accountable and experienced practitioner and a lead professional in the provision of care to women and their families.

To provide all relevant forms of specialised programmes of care and advice to women and their families, including responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period.

To practice in any area in maternity services.

To take regular charge of a ward area/clinical case load/equivalent sphere of practice in the absence of the person with continuing responsibility.

The post-holder is expected to supervise junior staff and to be able to teach qualified and unqualified staff, including basic and/or post-basic students.

To provide and promote low risk physiological birth with women centred care at the forefront.

To recognise deviations of normality and communicate with the wider team to facilitate transfer of care to consultant led care.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• *Registered Midwife on part 2 of the NMC Professional register

Desirable

• *NIPE qualification
• *NLS qualification

Experience

Essential

• *Completion of pre or post registration midwifery programme
• *Return to midwifery practice
• *Ability to work autonomously within professional and Trust guidelines
• *Able to take the professional lead in caring for low-risk women
• *Knowledge of needs of high and low risk women and neonates
• *Knowledge of child protection issues and when to take action
• *Knowledge to competently perform and interpret fetal heart auscultation, cardiotocography
• *Knowledge to safely use medical devices and other equipment required for practice
• *Knowledge of legal and ethical principles in midwifery for choice, consent, client autonomy
• *Knowledge to safely manage epidurals in labour
• *Understanding of risk management
• *Able to enter data on computer for notification of births, and patient records
• *Able to collect data for statistics audit
• *Able to use computer package to generate growth charts

Additional Criteria

Essential

• *Use appropriate moving and handling techniques antenatally, when assisting women during their chosen position, assisting women in giving birth, post operatively, for postnatal care and whilst assisting with breast feeding
• *Manual dexterity and good hand eye co-ordination for vaginal examination, venepuncture, cannulation, performing episiotomy, suturing, various injections
• *Possess good written communication skill to maintain clear, concise contemporaneous records
• *Able to write reports and format policies
• *Effective customer care skills
• *Able to speak, receive and issue instructions in English without risk of misunderstanding
• *Be able to communicate effectively via telephone, individual or within group discussion
• *Ability to proficiently utilise interpreters
• *Ability to sensitively communicate distressing information and discuss sensitive issues (i.e., Intra Uterine death, still birth, fetal abnormality, child protection issues)
• *Communicate effectively, and offer support to aggressive and distressed women/family members
• *To communicate effectively with multidisciplinary team and outside agencies
• *Take opportunities to impart knowledge at an appropriate level for health promotion, parent education and mentoring students and junior midwives
• *Have a high level of commitment, motivation, innovation and initiative
• *Ability to prioritise
• *Must be willing to work cross site and to support all clinical areas in times of high acuity and escalation.
• *Must be able to work shifts including weekends, Bank Holidays etc.

Desirable

• *Able to ask for support
• *Good problem solving and decision-making skills
• *Have confidence to be an effective advocate for women

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

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