Close Relative Marriage Midwife

Barts Health Nhs Trust; Billingshurst; Sur place; GBP 46 000 - 54 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Barts Health NHS Trust in London is seeking a Close Relative Marriage Midwife to support the maternity service with culturally aware genetic information and referrals. You will work to empower women from diverse backgrounds to understand genetic risks and options in pregnancy.

The role emphasizes collaboration within the midwifery team, liaison with genetics services, and delivering high-quality care across our NHS Trust.

Qualifications

• Essential: Clinician with current NMC midwifery registration
• Essential: Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience
• Desirable: Genetic training/experience (if applicable)
• Desirable: Knowledge of project management tools and NHS change processes

Responsabilités

• Provide genetic information to women with close relative marriage to support informed decisions.
• Coordinate timely referrals to genetics services.
• Empower women with culturally sensitive care and information.
• Initiate sensitive conversations with families affected by autosomal recessive conditions.
• Be a contact point within the midwifery team for referral and guidance.

Connaissances

Excellent communication

Interpersonal skills

Clinical skills

Project management

Attention to detail

Independent thinker

Teamwork

Problem solving

Adaptability

Formation

NMC midwifery registration

Degree-level education

Outils

Microsoft Project

Description du poste

Job summary

The Close Relative Marriage Midwife will work as part of a dynamic team to deliver high-quality care by supporting managers and staff across the maternity service. As set out in Culturally competent genetic services and close relative marriage: Funding criteria for areas of high need available on NHS England's Future NHS Collaboration Platform, Maternity Local Transformation Hub equity and equality pages).

The Close Relative Marriage Midwife will proactively work with women from Pakistani and other ethnic groups to encourage a greater level of genetic testing/awareness /literacy among families where consanguineous related genetic disorders are present and improve access to genetic services for families thereby enable informed reproductive decision-making.

Main duties of the job

• Ensure that provision of genetic information is available to all women practicing close relative marriage with a family history of a genetic disorder to enable empowered and timely decision making.
• Ensure timely referrals to the genetic service to ensure women have the opportunity to understand their risks and the options available to them in a pregnancy.
• Empower women to make informed choices in a culturally sensitive way.
• Initiate sensitive, appropriate conversations with families affected with autosomal recessive disorders linked to close relative marriage.
• Establish the role within the midwifery team and be a point of contact and/or referral for other midwives.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Details

• Date posted: 23 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £45,953 to £54,254 a year per annum inc (Pro rata)
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 5 months
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: 259-8339867NUH
• Closing date: 05 November 2026

Qualifications

• Essential: Clinician with current NMC midwifery registration
• Essential: Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Essential: Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes. Certificates/portfolio of evidence. Ongoing personal/professional development
• Desirable: Evidence of genetic training/ experience in field of genetics

Knowledge

• Essential: Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas, including an understanding of both genomics/genetics and midwifery
• Essential: Aware of cultural and social influences on health and importance of respecting diversity and differences
• Essential: Specialist knowledge in a relevant subject to post graduate level
• Essential: Understanding of research and its application to practice. Standard-setting and quality assurance
• Essential: Importance of cost containment and resource management
• Essential: Clinical supervision and reflective practice
• Desirable: Comprehensive knowledge of project management and/or health information systems development
• Desirable: Workforce development knowledge and experience
• Desirable: Working knowledge of Microsoft Project
• Desirable: Current nursing practice developments and NHS reforms

Experience

• Essential: Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of health services
• Essential: Experience in communications and stakeholder management
• Essential: Previous experience in similar role in public sector
• Essential: A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it
• Essential: Formal teaching to group of staff. Post-registration experience

Skills

• Essential: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Essential: Evidence of expanded clinical skills - e.g. IV drug administration, cannulation, phlebotomy etc.
• Essential: Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences
• Essential: Evidence of success in effective project and programme management
• Essential: Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence
• Essential: Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks
• Essential: Ability to analyse and interpret information, anticipate and evaluate issues, and recommend an appropriate course of action to address the issues
• Essential: Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Essential: Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate
• Essential: Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis
• Essential: Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Essential: Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action
• Essential: Skills for supporting project management
• Essential: Previous experience in project management and planning
• Essential: Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support
• Essential: Skills for managing projects ensuring they meet financial targets
• Essential: Skills for manipulating information
• Essential: Intermediate keyboard skills
• Essential: Clinical expertise, able to work on own initiative and sound decision-making
• Essential: Works effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Essential: Understanding of own knowledge and skills
• Essential: Awareness of own limitations, realism in own abilities
• Essential: Ability to work without supervision
• Essential: Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads to changing and often tight deadlines
• Essential: An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust

Other

• Essential: Ability to travel across sites where required
• Essential: Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
• Essential: Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
• Essential: Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients
• Essential: Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
• Essential: Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation
• Essential: Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity
• Desirable: Fluent in Urdu

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

• Employer name: Barts Health NHS Trust
• Address: Newham University Hospital, Glen Road, Plaistow, E13 8SL, United Kingdom
• Employer's website: https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk

For questions about the job, contact: Inpatient Areas & High Risk Matron, Mary Dwase, [e-mail], 07795826105

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