Telephone Helpline Midwife - Band 6

Permanent

Part Time (30 hours per week)

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife to join the team at the Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as a Telephone Helpline Midwife.

We are proud to offer the opportunity to work in a progressive environment where we are committed to an ambitious transformation of our maternity services. As part of our improvement work, we have developed the role of a Telephone Helpline Midwife to work alongside our maternity triage. The service runsMonday to Sunday (07:00 to 20:00)

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated, knowledgeable, and compassionate band 6 midwife who has a passion and commitment to providing high quality, safe woman and birthing person centred care.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development and implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision. The post holder will be responsible for giving safe, evidence based advice to all women/birthing people, families and external agencies who telephone our maternity triage department. They will be responsible for assessing the need for women/birthing people to either attend maternity triage, Emergency Department, General practitioner (GP) or to manage conditions at home. They will also be responsible for signposting women/birthing people to other agencies.

Interview Date: Tuesday 8th October 2024.

Main duties of the job

Clinical:

• Ensures a woman/birthing person/baby centred approach to delivery of care and acts as an advocate for the woman/birthing person and their baby at all times.
• To work as part of the multidisciplinary team for the provision of care for women/birthing people.
• Demonstrate knowledge of all relevant policies and guidelines in relation to midwifery practice.
• To ensure individualised care is provided which reflects evidence based practice.
• To participate in promotion of clinical governance, standard setting, clinical guideline development, implementation and audit.
• Be involved in continuous monitoring and maintaining quality standards of clinical practice and care through a variety of ways for example, audit.
• To promote awareness and implementation of research based practices relating to the area of work

About us

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust's services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.

The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this - particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities,community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitalsprovide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the main responsibilities of the Telephone Helpline Midwife

Person Specification

Shortlist criteria

Essential

• Registered Midwife
• First level degree in related healthcare discipline or substantial experiential equivalence
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Substantial post registration experience in all areas of midwifery practice

Employer details

Employer name

The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hillingdon Hospital

Uxbridge

UB8 3NN

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394-THM-170924