Midwifery Sister - Psychological Well-being Midwife

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust; Bath; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Midwifery Sister focusing on psychological well-being. Work within a dedicated maternity team to provide high-quality care for women experiencing birth-related trauma. This role emphasizes collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to ensure optimal support and treatment for patients.

Benefits

Staff Wellbeing Programme

Supportive Work Environment

Qualifications

• Significant experience working with a senior team preferably in the NHS.
• Understanding of Clinical Governance principles.

Responsibilities

• Complete screening and triage of women presenting with trauma symptoms.
• Provide consultation and treatment for women with trauma symptoms.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Registered Midwife with NMC

Post-registration qualification

Job description

Midwifery Sister - Psychological Well-being Midwife

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Job Overview

Would you like to work in a highly motivated and friendly Maternity team covering Bath, North East Somerset and West Wiltshire? We are committed to providing high quality, woman-centred care, and have already implemented work to provide consistency of care for families.

Job Overview

Would you like to work in a highly motivated and friendly Maternity team covering Bath, North East Somerset and West Wiltshire? We are committed to providing high quality, woman-centred care, and have already implemented work to provide consistency of care for families.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ in our latest CQC review, our service consists of an acute and 2 standalone birth centres. We also have 2 community midwifery led units, a 24 hour Maternity Assessment Unit and are in the planning stages of an alongside midwifery unit at the RUH site. This is your chance to be part of a transforming organisation where we aim to ensure all women have access to the optimal birth environment in accordance with their choice. An opportunity has arisen for a forward thinking, motivated, woman centred, Band 7 midwife work in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team. Ensuring that women with birth related trauma and tocophobia receive the appropriate psychological care and treatment.

The successful candidate will be part of specialist midwifery team. If you are a Midwife who would like to be a part of our future and can meet this challenge we welcome your interest in applying for a job at the RUH.

Main duties of the job

The Post Holder Will Work Closely With The Matrons And Divisional Director Of Family And Specialist Services Regarding All Quality Performance And Management Issues And Will

Complete screening and triage of women presenting with trauma symptoms and prepare and chair triage meetings with relevant professionals

• Will be responsible for providing consultation, advice, referral and treatment (within scope) for women with mild/moderate trauma symptoms as part of the maternal mental health pathway for women with birth trauma and tocophobia
• Will provide personalised care based on each woman’s needs including support of personalised care and support plans, ensuring that these are updated in a timely way and communicated to relevant professionals.
• Will develop, implement and evaluate multi-agency and individualised specialist mental health birth plans in conjunction with women/birthing person and support person.
• Will be competent and confident in all areas of midwifery practice and act as an expert specialist resource in the provision of care for birth related trauma, offering highly specialist advice to other midwives and medical staff in birth related trauma matters
  
  

Working for our organisation

At the RUH we’re proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see job description for more detailed description of the role, responsibilities and job specification.

Person specification

Qualifications And Training

Essential criteria

• Registered midwife with NMC
• Significant experience working with a senior team preferably in the NHS
• Training in managing conduct, Health, sickness and performance, recruitment, appraisal
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Post-registration qualification preferably in speciality area, or in process
• leadership qualification
  
  

Knowledge and expereince

Essential criteria

• Significant relevant clinical and management experience at band 6 or above in the NHS (minimum 2 years).
• Understanding of the principles and application of Clinical Governance.
• Evidence of working across a variety of midwifery settings including experience working with women with mental ill health.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of leading change.
• Evidence of involvement in service users’ advocacy and complaints resolutions.
  
  

Applicant requirements

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if we receive a high number of applications. We strongly encourage you to complete and submit your application in good time to ensure it can be considered.

Documents to download

• Midwifery sister-Pychological well being Midwife (PDF, 256.4KB)
• Join the RUH (PDF, 1.1MB)
  
  

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Sarah Marks Job title Matron Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01225824675

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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