An exciting opportunity has arisen for dynamic and visionary newly qualified and experienced midwives to join the established team of midwives at Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust.

The applicants should have experience in all aspects of midwifery care and have the ability to work with women in antenatal care, during labour and postnatally. You would be responsible for the provision of high quality, effective midwifery care on a day to day basis, working within all areas of the maternity unit.

The post holder must be flexible, innovative and resourceful with excellent organisational skills, a team player with high personal standards of care. Newly qualified midwives will be supported through our preceptorship programme.

Various Full and Part time positions available.

Please get in touch if this opportunity is for you.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be employed as a rotational midwife and work throughout all clinical areas of maternity services. Rotations through inpatient areas will include labour ward, maternity theatres, midwifery led unit and maternity inpatient ward.

There will also be an opportunity to Rotate to the Maternity Outpatients Department and Community Midwifery.

About us

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond.

The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its Be Safe Be EquiPPEd campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.

The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.

Job description

Job responsibilities

A practicing health care professional who is able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate evidence based care.

The post holder will carry out a range of clinical skills in midwifery practice within the team, whilst working collaboratively and co-operatively with others to give individualised, holistic care to meet the needs of women and their families. The midwife will have decision-making autonomy within guidelines and professional codes of practice, and will participate in the leadership, education, development and supervision of the clinical team.

Please see attached job description for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife with active NMC PIN or awaiting registration following midwifery training
• mentorship and/or relevant experience mentoring students/junior staff

Desirable

• NIPE
• PMA

Knowledge

Essential

• knowledge of national drivers

Desirable

• knowledge of safety and risk

Experience

Essential

• evidence or knowledge of all clinical areas of midwifery practice

Employer details

Employer name

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Mid Cheshire Hospitals Trust

Middlewich Road

Crewe

CW1 4QJ

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