Midwife

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in the United Kingdom is seeking a Rotational Midwife to deliver excellent care within a Maternity Assessment Centre. The role involves collaborating with a team to manage pregnancy-related complications and providing continuity of care throughout antenatal and postnatal periods. Applicants must be registered midwives with relevant experience and qualifications. This position promises diverse responsibilities and the opportunity to enhance patient care, offering a fulfilling career in maternity services.

Qualifications

• Registered with the appropriate midwifery authority.
• Evidence of recent continuous professional development.
• Experience in managing emergency situations.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team.
• Act as an autonomous carer for normal midwifery.
• Provide continuity of care for a delegated clinical caseload.

Skills

Competent in all aspects of midwifery practice

Recent experience in hospital or community setting

Knowledge of antenatal and newborn screening

Proficient in neonatal resuscitation

Working knowledge of clinical governance

Education

Registered Midwife

BSc midwifery studies or equivalent

Mentorship/Preceptorship qualification

Job description

Job Summary

Rotational Midwife – Maternity Assessment Centre. Deliver excellent care using BSOTS to triage and treat women with pregnancy‑related complications. 24/7 service throughout the year.

Main Duties

• Collaborate with a multi‑disciplinary/multi‑agency team.
• Act as an autonomous carer for women, partners and families within normal midwifery, providing expert knowledge and acting as a clinical role model.
• Provide continuity of carer to a delegated clinical caseload throughout antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods, liaising as necessary with the multidisciplinary team.
• Specialise in the care of low‑risk pregnancies and labour, planning, implementing and evaluating care.
• Acknowledge changing context of care and recommend pathways of care to pregnant women.
• Liaise with senior medical staff when complications arise in pregnancy and labour, transferring care to obstetric (team‑based care) as appropriate. Support women after referral, liaising with senior midwifery and medical staff for complicated obstetric cases.

About Us

We employ more than 6,500 staff delivering compassionate care from Calderdale Royal Hospital, Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and community sites, health centres and patients' homes. 150 volunteers support us. We provide urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end‑of‑life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

Job Responsibilities

• Supports women undergoing high‑risk labour.
• Takes blood samples, inserts intravenous cannula and administers intravenous drugs.
• Evaluates for and performs episiotomy when necessary, sutures episiotomies and tears.
• Assists anaesthetist when siting epidurals and cares for women who have an epidural.
• Provides care and support to women and their families in cases of miscarriage, termination of pregnancy, intrauterine death and stillbirth.
• Recognises and takes lead in managing emergency situations where evidence‑based knowledge and skills are required to deal with critical events (antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum emergencies requiring immediate life support).
• Provides immediate care of the newborn including emergency resuscitation when required.
• Provides evidence‑based advice and support to all women in their chosen method of infant feeding.
• Works within the Nursing and Midwifery code of professional practice.

Person Specification

Essential Qualifications

• Registered Midwife
• Mentorship/Preceptorship qualification
• BSc midwifery studies or equivalent
• Evidence of recent continuous professional development
• Baby‑friendly infant feeding training equivalent
• Evidence of ‘Active Birth’ training or experience
• Evidence of domestic abuse awareness and safeguarding children training

Desirable Qualifications

• Leading an Empowerment Organisation training
• ALSO training
• NALS training
• Willing to undertake the Examination of the Newborn course
• Willing to undertake Newborn life support training
• Motivational interviewing training

Knowledge, Experience & Expertise – Essential

• Competent in all aspects of midwifery practice including intrapartum care and perineal suturing
• Demonstrable and recent relevant experience of working in hospital, birth centre or community setting
• Evidence of a desire to work as an integrated midwife
• Working knowledge/experience of multi‑disciplinary agency working
• Knowledge of antenatal and newborn screening programmes
• Knowledge of public health midwifery issues
• Knowledge of clinical governance
• Knowledge and understanding of professional midwifery advocate
• Proficient in neonatal resuscitation
• Working knowledge and experience of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults

Knowledge, Experience & Expertise – Desirable

• Knowledge of local, regional and national reports impacting on maternity services

Communication & Relationships (including management responsibilities) – Essential

• Evidence that shows commitment to promotion of breastfeeding and support of breastfeeding mothers
• Evidence that shows commitment to normal midwifery
• Knowledge of public health/midwifery issues

Communication & Relationships (including management responsibilities) – Desirable

• Experience of recruitment and selection
• Knowledge of audit and research
• Awareness of government documents/reports/frameworks that impact on provision of maternity services
• Participation in service development projects
• Counselling and bereavement skills
• Knowledge of the CAF process
• Personal development review training and experience