Elective Caesarean Section Midwife

Bedfordshire Hospitals; Luton; In loco; GBP 36.000 - 48.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Midwife (Band 6) to lead the elective caesarean pathway, ensuring pre-operative preparation and safe delivery of babies. The role includes supervising staff, mentoring students, and collaborating with clinical teams to maintain efficient elective care.

You will assist in preoperative checks, accompany patients to theatre, and provide postnatal care, while upholding autonomous, evidence-based midwifery practice and safeguarding

Competenze

• Registered Midwife
• Midwifery degree or equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Mansioni

• Provide midwifery leadership for all women on an elective pathway and ensure pre-operative preparation and surgery run smoothly.
• Prepare women for surgery ensuring all pre-assessment bloods, swabs and surgical paperwork have been completed.
• Accompany women to theatre for surgery and support safe delivery of baby via caesarean section
• Care for women post operatively, providing postnatal care for mother and baby.
• Provide midwifery leadership in all areas of midwifery practice, demonstrating autonomy and effective decision making.

Conoscenze

Leadership

Mentorship

Teaching

Decision making

Formazione

Midwifery degree

CPD ongoing

Descrizione del lavoro

The elective caesarean midwife has a responsibility to provide holistic woman/baby centred midwifery care for their planned surgical pathway. The midwife will assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for the women/baby. The role will encompass taking responsibility for the management and leadership for those women on an elective pathway and manage this caseload on a shift-by-shift basis. To collaborate with external agencies and consumer groups where required

The Midwife (Band 6) participates in the supervision and teaching of staff as well as being a Mentor/Assessor for midwifery students

Main duties of the job

Provide midwifery leadership for all women on an elective pathway ensuring pre-operative preparation and surgery run smoothly

Prepare women for surgery ensuring all pre-assessment bloods, swabs and surgical paperwork have been completed.

Accompany women to theatre for surgery and support safe delivery of baby via caesarean section

Care for women post operatively, providing postnatal care for mother and baby.

Provide midwifery leadership in all areas of midwifery practice, demonstrating autonomy, advocacy for women and an excellent decision making style.

Work collaboratively with the clinical teams maintaining effective management of the elective pathway, supporting flow through the maternity service

Support the Band 7 Team Managers in the execution of his/her role to ensure the elective cases run efficiently

To provide midwifery care where required when no elective activity is planned, ensuring that sound up to date advice is given to women and their families in all care settings in accordance with best practice informed by NICE and Government initiatives.

Demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills

Working for our organisation

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Promote the wellbeing and safeguarding of children and young people by implementing the Trust’s policy and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

Assess, plan implement and evaluate care women/babies for a defined caseload, using evidence to rationalize prescribed care.

Develop link with all care agencies to facilitate seamless approach to maternity care.

Practice within boundaries of autonomy as described by the NMC Code 2015.

Review practices to reduce clinical risk. Record and report any untoward incidents and take action to avoid further incidents.

Promote health and wellbeing through practice and education of women, relatives, carers and staff

In the absence of an elective caesarean list – to support the Maternity inpatient service where required.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife
• Hold a midwifery degree or equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

• Rotational midwifery experience
• Experience in obstetric theatres
• Act as mentor and assessor
• Experience in taking charge of shifts

Knowledge

• Understanding of the need of confidentiality awareness at all times
• Evidence based client centred care
• Knowledge of child protection issues and policies
• Demonstrate awareness of public health agenda

Skills

• High standards of clinical performance
• Ability to manage
• Leadership and Motivational skills
• Teaching Skills

It is an exciting time to join Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.