Midwife

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; Guildford; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing programme

Job summary

The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Band 6 Midwife to join the midwifery team on a fixed-term basis until 31 October 2027, with both full and part-time hours available.

This role supports continuity of care and covers the antenatal ward, day assessment and maternity triage, with opportunities to develop skills in induction of labour, speculum examinations and caring for complex pregnancies.

Qualifications

• Must hold NMC midwifery registration.
• Evidence of current practice/updating required.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal midwifery care.
• Work within continuity of carer models and rotate across maternity services as needed.
• Assess care needs, develop and evaluate plans of care, and supervise junior staff.
• Work across community and hospital settings on a seven-day service including night duties.

Job description

Midwife Band 6

Fixed term until 31/10/2027 – Full and part time hours available

(we would aim to make substantive at end of fixed term)

The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an enthusiastic, band 6 Midwife to join the midwifery team

This position is open to midwives who are interested in working within a Continuity of Care model and are able to meet the challenge of delivering high standards of care, ensuring that each woman’s journey to motherhood is an individualised experience.

We are currently looking for Band 6 Midwives to join our Antenatal core team supporting the antenatal ward, day assessment and maternity triage.

Are you passionate about providing high-quality antenatal care and keen to broaden your knowledge, skills and experience within this area of midwifery?

This is an exciting time in antenatal care, giving you the opportunity to develop skills in induction of labour, speculum examinations, presentation scanning and supporting complex pregnancies. You will also work heavily in the Maternity Triage, supporting us to successfully implement and embed the BSOTS model of care.

If you are enthusiastic about antenatal triage and antenatal care, enjoy being involved in service development and would like the opportunity to join a dedicated core team for a minimum of 1 year then please consider applying.

You must hold NMC midwifery registration.

You will be expected to be able to show evidence of current practice/updating.

To work as part of the Multi-professional team providing a high standard of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal midwifery care to women and their families within the integrated maternity service. To work as part of a continuity of carer team or rotate within all clinical areas within maternity services to support professional development and maintain safe standards of midwifery care in line with service provision.

The post-holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care. This midwife is expected to carry out all relevant forms of care and is designated to take charge regularly of a ward area or an equivalent sphere within midwifery in the absence of the person who has continuing responsibility. The post-holder will be required to work in both the community and the hospital across a 7 day service including night duties. The post-holder is expected to supervise junior staff and to be able to teach qualified and unqualified staff, including basic and/or post-basic students.

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5,000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing programme alongside a strong commitment to developing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family ensures you feel valued from your initial interview and throughout your time with us.

We are clinically led and provide joined-up care by bridging hospital and community services, alongside delivering regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford, with community sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh, and services delivered in patients’ homes across Guildford and Waverley.

We work in partnership with Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust through a collaborative Group Model, supporting joined-up services, workforce flexibility and development opportunities.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated us as Outstanding. We are proud of our achievements and continue to invest in our people and infrastructure.

To learn more about life at Royal Surrey, please watch our short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kate Conway Job title: Maternity Matron Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01483 571122

Please contact Head of Midwifery, Clare Cardu for further information or you may wish to arrange an informal visit on 01483 571122 extension 2319