Preceptorship Midwife

Isle of Wight NHS Trust; Newport; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Isle of Wight NHS Trust as a Preceptorship Midwife and provide compassionate care to families. This unique opportunity enables you to work across various service areas while receiving support through an extensive preceptorship program. Be a part of a team committed to delivering excellent care and making a positive impact in your community.

Benefits

Onsite day nursery

Cycle-to-work scheme

Discounts at local businesses and gyms

Opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Newly qualified midwife.
• Motivated to deliver high-quality care.
• Open to embrace change.

Responsibilities

• Support women through antenatal, labour, and postnatal care.
• Undertake a robust preceptorship programme.
• Embrace positive change in service delivery.

Skills

Compassion

Accountability

Respect

Commitment

Education

Midwifery degree

Job description

We are recruiting a Preceptorship midwife who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our women, birthing people and families receive high quality and compassionate care in co-production with our service users and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “great people, great place”.

Each year we help approximately 1000 families prepare for their journey into parenthood. By joining our trust, you will get a unique opportunity to provide care by working across all areas of the service.

Our labour ward has five delivery rooms including one with a birthing pool, as well as a dedicated maternity only theatre. Midwives work within an integrated model and are encouraged to follow women and birthing people from the antenatal ward to the labour ward through to the postnatal ward.

You will need to be motivated, and committed to delivering high quality evidenced based care, and open to embrace positive change and transformation to meet the changing needs of the community we serve.

As a newly qualified midwife you will be supported by our Recruitment and Retention midwives along with our team of clinical leads and practice development midwives. You will undertake a robust preceptorship programme which encompasses both clinical and pastoral support, with dedicated time to attend additional teaching and development days. Following an extended supernumerary period, you will be supported to develop skills and competencies in all areas of midwifery as you complete the preceptorship programme and prepare for transition to band 6 midwife.

If you are interested in joining our team and share in our vision to provide safe, high quality seamless services delivered with courtesy and respect; we would like to hear from you.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is an integrated acute and ambulance health care provider in England. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Our 2020-2025 strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Anne Pennells Job title: Deputy Head of Midwifery Email address: [e-mail]