Maternity are recruiting a registered general nurse to work alongside the community midwives at our new bespoke maternity hub on Oldbury road, our other clinical areas and on occasion you will be required to attend our flagship purpose built hospital the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital. You will be working predominantly mon - fri 9-5pm running our early bird clinic which involves observations and obtaining consent for booking bloods and screening to be taken, providing public health information in pregnancy and conducting home visits for patient reviews. There will be some administration and audit required.

If you are thinking about becoming a midwife this role will provide insight into the role of the community midwife.

Main duties of the job

The role involves seeing patients in clinic, phlebotomy and delivering public health initiatives for pregnancy. Including smoking cessation.

Assisting community midwives with paired visits, but you will also work independently in the community with lone visits conducting call and reports, blood pressure checks and wound reviews. There will also be safeguarding.

As this is a community post, a car and full driving license with business usage insurance is required.

About us

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opened recently and provides care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:

Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff

Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do

Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live

Job description

Job responsibilities

As per personal spec & job description attached, training for smoking cessation and all aspects of the role.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Relevant clinical post registration experience.

Qualifications

Essential

• RN (Adult) with current NMC registration

Desirable

• Teaching qualification
• Assessing qualification
• Speciality specific qualifications

Employer details

Employer name

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

Address

SWB NHS Trust

Hallam Street

West Bromwich

B71 4NH

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