3335 - Integrated Midwife

Barnsley Hospital; Barnsley; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking enthusiastic Band 6 Integrated Midwives to join our maternity team, delivering high-quality care across hospital and community settings.

You will provide compassionate, autonomous and evidence-based care throughout antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal pathways, collaborating with a wide multidisciplinary team to achieve excellent outcomes for women and families.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with current NMC registration.
• NIPE qualification is required or desirable.
• Experience in maternity care settings preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for women and babies across the maternity pathway.
• Collaborate with obstetricians, neonatal teams and community staff across hospital and community settings.
• Support women to make informed choices and promote patient safety and evidence-based practice.

Skills

Teamwork skills

Maternity knowledge

Workload management

Car driver

Education

Registered Midwife - NMC registration

NIPE

Job description

Shape the Future of Maternity Care in Barnsley

Are you a passionate and motivated midwife looking to develop your career within a forward-thinking maternity service?

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking enthusiastic Band 6 Integrated Midwives to join our dedicated maternity team, delivering high-quality care across both hospital and community settings. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a service committed to providing safe, personalised and compassionate support for women, babies and their families.

As an Integrated Midwife, you will play a key role in supporting women and families throughout their maternity journey, delivering compassionate, autonomous and evidence-based care that is safe, personalised and respectful. Working across antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal services in both community and hospital environments, you will collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to achieve excellent outcomes and positive experiences and empower women to make informed decisions about their pregnancy, birth and postnatal journey.

We're looking for enthusiastic and compassionate midwives committed to delivering outstanding woman-centered care and making a difference to women, babies and families. At Barnsley, we're proud of our supportive culture, where colleagues feel valued, respected and empowered to thrive while delivering exceptional care

Come and be part of a maternity team committed to delivering safe, kind and personalised care every day.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will:

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for women and babies across the maternity pathway.

Work across a variety of clinical settings, supporting women and families throughout their maternity journey.

Collaborate effectively with the multidisciplinary team, including obstetricians, neonatal teams, GPs, health visitors, safeguarding professionals and social care partners.

Promote health education and provide information that enables women to make informed choices about their care.

Champion patient safety, quality improvement and evidence-based practice.

Contribute to a positive safety culture through openness, learning and continuous improvement.

Develop and maintain your clinical expertise through completion of the Band 5/6 competency framework and ongoing professional development.

Act as a professional role model, supporting, mentoring and developing student midwives, newly qualified midwives and colleagues.

Participate in the maternity on-call rota and rotational working across community and hospital services to meet the needs of women and families.

About us

Barnsley is a place of real warmth and communityspirit. With a proud industrial past, the town offers affordable living, greattransport links, rich culture and many green spaces. Barnsley punches above itsweight and has recently seen economic growth, substantial regeneration anddigital ambition, whilst leading the way in healthcare innovation andemployability.

At Barnsley Hospital, we are a close-knit,ambitious team delivering outstanding care in the heart of South Yorkshire. Ouraim is to be the best place to work and we have been consistently rated by ourpeople as being amongst the very best Trusts in the country in areas such ascompassionate leadership, teamwork and supporting colleague wellbeing.

We offer a friendly working environment where youwill be recognised and valued for what you do, led with compassion andintegrity and have your career and wellbeing supported.

BarnsleyHospital NHS FT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity and fairtreatment to all applicants.

Forindividuals who require sponsorship under the skilled worker or health &care visa route please use the link on the right hand side of the advert tocheck your eligibility.

The cost ofthe DBS (criminal records check) for Band 6 and above roles will only be met bythe successful candidate(s) through salary deduction.

Please note we reserve the right to close positions early

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attachedJob Description and Person Specification for full details of the role andresponsibilities.

Person Specification

Experience

• Ability to fulfill the Job Description requirements competently. Meeting the Maternity band 5/6 competency assessment criteria.

Values based Questions

• Please describe in around 100 words: Describe how you live the values at the current organisation that you work for., Please describe in around 100 words: Please describe a situation where you have demonstrated respect for your colleagues/patients in a difficult or sensitive situation., Please describe in around 100 words: How do you ensure you build and sustain positive working relationships within a team?

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife- Valid NMC registration.
• NIPE

Skills and Abilities

• Effective team working skills
• Articulate and knowledgeable on current issues in Maternity
• Organised and ability to manage a busy workload, prioritize appropriately.
• Car Driver

Knowledge and Awareness

• Awareness of current midwifery issues/Practice.
• Safety culture and quality governance.
• Awareness of CNST, ATTAIN, BFI the role of the CQC

Skills and Abilities

• Effective team working skills
• Articulate and knowledgeable on current issues in Maternity
• Organised and ability to manage a busy workload, prioritize appropriately.
• Car Driver

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.