Research Midwife

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK is looking for an experienced Midwife to join their research team. This role offers training and support for a new study and aims to maintain a growing portfolio of research in reproductive health. The ideal candidate will have significant experience as a Registered Midwife, with opportunities for career development. The position is initially offered for 18 months, with potential for permanence. Join a supportive and innovative team making a difference in public health.

Benefits

NHS pension plan

Generous holiday allowance

Employee health and wellbeing services

Flexible working options

Career progression support

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with significant post-registration experience.
• Experience working with a wide range of professionals in complex situations.
• Knowledge of current research and nursing/professional issues.

Responsibilities

• Assess feasibility of running studies.
• Identify and recruit suitable participants.
• Undertake clinical tasks of a research midwife.

Skills

Registered Midwife

Good Clinical Practice training

Informed consent training

Experience with complex information

Computer databases and administration

Tools

BadgerNet

PPM+

ICE

CITO

Job description

About The Role

For further information about this role or to arrange an informal visit/chat, please contact Dawn Athorn via email: telephone: [phone] or Bev Taylor via email: telephone: [phone]. (Please note that we do not offer shadowing opportunities).

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trusts Research Department is looking for an experienced Midwife to join their team. Since the appointment of the first Research Midwife at MYTT in December 2021, the reproductive health, neonatal and paediatric portfolio has grown beyond expectations and is now supporting multiple studies and over 19,500 participants. To maintain the impetus and continue to develop and grow the portfolio, we are now looking to appoint a Midwife primarily to support a new study developed from the BaBi portfolio.

You will be offered training and support to take on this role and development to support the existing portfolio of work. Experience of the research process is desirable but not essential. You will learn about the research delivery process from expression of interest through feasibility, set up, study delivery, close out and archiving. It is expected that you will assist the Senior Research Midwife and the wider reproductive health research team in maintaining and developing the portfolio, as we seek to realise our ambitions to develop a program of research from within the Born and Bred in (BaBi) Wakefield public health study.

Opportunities for additional training to develop in the role will be supported. Additional training and development will be considered on a case by case basis.

The job is offered for a period of 18 months initially and may become permanent subject to ongoing funding.

Responsibilities

• Assessing feasibility of running studies at MYTT.
• Identifying and recruiting suitable participants against study protocols.
• Undertaking of clinical tasks appropriate to the role of a research midwife.
• Recording and input of data.
• Resolving data queries with sponsors.
• Working with the multidisciplinary team to ensure studies run as expected.
• Identifying and reporting of adverse events.
• Liaising with sponsors.
• Giving oral and written presentations.
• Contributing to comms and engagement activities both within and external to the Trust.
• Contributing to the new staff inductions.
• Supervising of students.
• Deputising for the band 7 as required.
• Other tasks which are commensurate with the role as required.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.

Qualifications

Essential person specification requirements

• Registered Midwife
• Up to date Good Clinical Practice training
• Informed consent training

Experience

• Significant post registration experience
• Experience of computer databases and administration
• Working with a wide range of professionals
• Experience dealing with highly complex situations
• Experience providing and receiving highly complex information

Knowledge And Awareness

• Knowledge of patient information systems including BadgerNet, PPM+, ICE, CITO
• Awareness of the local and national agenda in the NHS and chosen speciality
• Clinical governance
• Awareness of own limitations
• Knowledge of current research, nursing/professional issues in health and social care

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.

Be part of MY team

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work. We support work‑life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Application Guidance

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Our Benefits

• Access to the NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
• Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
• Extensive benefits and support, including:
• Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
• Home electronics scheme
• Cycle to work scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
• Car lease salary sacrifice scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
• Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
• Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
• Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
• Career progression, training and support

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