Rotational Midwife

Integrated Care System; Leeds; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Leeds is seeking Band 6 Midwives to provide outstanding antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care within a supportive team. Candidates should be experienced, professional, and passionate about patient-centered care. The role includes maintaining high standards of care and collaborating across agencies to enhance women's healthcare during pregnancy and postpartum.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a midwife or equivalent within specialty.
• Insight into clinical specialty and current issues in midwifery.
• Successfully completed the LTHT Midwifery Preceptorship program or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high standards of women-centred care according to guidelines.
• Coordinate care and ensure effective multi-agency collaboration.
• Provide assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of midwifery care.

Skills

Professional patient care

Excellent interpersonal skills

Clinical leadership

Ability to teach and assess

Flexibility and adaptability

Education

Degree or equivalent

NMC Registered Midwife

Job description

Anexciting opportunity has arisen for Band 6 midwives to join our dedicatedteam at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust providing a high standard ofantenatal, intrapartum and postnatal midwifery care to women and theirfamilies in Leeds.

Leedsmaternity service is continually changing and evolving to meet the needs ofour population and ensure our families have a positive birthing experience.We are looking for midwives who are experienced, professional, kind andpassionate about delivering patient centred care.

Byjoining our mulit disciplinary team you will have the opportunity to bringyour wealth of knowledge and experience to our maternity service and rotatewithin all clinical areas of the maternity services to support professionaldevelopment and maintain safe standards of midwifery care.

Weare a very friendly, supportive team whom welcome innovative ways of workingand new ideas and look forward to receiving your application.

Thisposition is available externally for all Band 6 midwives.

Forfurther information please do not hesitate to contact Sarah Tuke or SarahHarrington - Midwifery Matrons on 0113 206 5169.

Main duties of the job

Maintaina high standard of women centred care in accordance with Leeds TeachingHospitals Trust guidelines and policies. Act as a referral agent andco-ordinator of care provision. Establishes effective multi-agencycollaboration across the primary/secondary interface to meet the needs of thepatients. Act as a role model for the development of clinical skills andknowledge within the department team. Maintain a safe working environment.Support the Senior Midwife in setting and monitoring standards and seek tocontinuously improve standards and the quality of patient care, includingnational standards. Promote evidence based practice. Participate in the auditand evaluation of clinical practice in the interests of promoting qualitycare. Provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation ofmidwifery care for women and their babies, ensuring written records are keptto NMC standards.

About us

LeedsTeaching Hospital Maternity Services support the birth of approximately 9000babies per year. We are a tertiary unit with the largest Fetal Medicine Unitin the North. We also have a Quaternary Paediatric and Cardiac Surgery unitthe largest Congenital Cardiac Service in the North of England and we arespecialists in Prematurity Prevention for Y&H.

OurVision and purpose.

Weprovide outstanding Maternity care. We put women and families at the centreof everything we do

OurPriorities

Tobe recognised as a leading provider of outstanding Women's healthcare.

Towork collaboratively with our partners in local and regional networks,providing patient-centred care via effective integrated systems.

Weprioritise the wellbeing of our teams and make sure they have the resources,training and encouragement they need to be excellent.

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job advertsare subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or removeadverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in theshortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while thisprocess is completed, and contact the named contact if you have anyquestions.

Job responsibilities

JobTitle: Midwife

Band: 6

LocationLeeds GeneralInfirmary/St James's University Hospital/Community

JOBPURPOSE/SUMMARY

Thepost holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development,implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, and may be required toteach other midwives and non-midwifery staff. They take responsibility as theprime care provider for a group of women.

Thepost holder is a prime care provider who is required to practice clinicalskills developed through experience but at a more advanced level thanrequired for those who have just qualified as midwives.

Thepost holder is designated to take charge of a ward in the absence of theperson who has continuing responsibility.

Thematernity unit has approximately 10,000 births a year. LTHT is a tertiaryreferral centre for both obstetrics and neonatology. Other specialities within the hospital thatimpact on maternity unit are feto-maternal medicine, adult and neonatalcardiology, neonatal surgery and a reproductive medicine unit.

Thepost holder will work within the maternity unit or community, caring forwomen and their babies before, during and after pregnancy depending on thearea.

Theywill participate in internal rotation throughout the maternity units andcovers both day and night shifts.

Themidwife maintains personal contact with women and meets their needs on anindividual basis by listening, assessing, planning, implementing andevaluating care. Is aware of theanxieties of women and their families and the support they may need.

Themidwife ensures that the appropriate practitioner is informed promptly of acomplication or change in the mother's or baby's condition.

Themidwife ensures effective communication with health care professionals andother personnel to ensure continued care to the patient and assists in thesmooth running of the ward or area.

Reportson the changes occurring in treatment and client needs during the shift andis prepared to work in areas of the midwifery service other than where basedin order to meet the requirements of the service.

Thejobholder must comply with the wearing of PPE as appropriate to the clinicalsituation - this may involve wearing face masks for a considerable length oftime.

Forfull job description and personal specification, please see documentsattached.

Person Specification

Experience

• Significant experience as a midwife or equivalent within speciality
• Working with a wide range of professionals including medical and management colleagues
• Insight into clinical speciality
• Insight into current issues in midwifery/professional issues
• Standards of professional practice

Additional Requirements

• Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for post
• Car Driver - with a full driving licence (desirable)

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent
• NMC Registered Midwife
• Successful completion of the LTHT Midwifery Preceptorship program (or equivalent)
• Teaching/assessing qualification (Desirable)

Skills & behaviours

• Professional and patient focused
• Flexible, adaptable, capable of lateral thinking
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Able to communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team
• Able to teach, supervise and assess qualified and unqualified staff
• Clinical leadership
• Teaching skills
• Teaching skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.