Rotational Midwife

Leeds Teaching Hospitals; Leeds; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in the UK is seeking dedicated midwives to join their Maternity Department. The role includes providing midwifery care in multiple settings, maintaining high standards of patient care, and collaborating with health professionals. Candidates should have previous NHS midwifery experience and a degree in midwifery. This trust invests in staff development and promotes a supportive work environment. Opportunities to rotate across maternity services are available.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Diverse work settings

Qualifications

• Previous NHS midwifery experience required.
• Knowledge of current issues in healthcare.
• Understanding skills to lead and develop team members.

Responsibilities

• Provide midwifery care across varied settings.
• Maintain standards of care according to guidelines.
• Participate in audits and evaluations to promote quality care.

Skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Team leadership

Ability to think laterally

Education

Degree in midwifery or equivalent

Hold a live NMC PIN

Recognised teaching/assessing qualification

Job description

LeedsTeaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking passionate midwives to join ourdynamic Maternity Department. Candidates must -

PreviousNHS midwifery experience required

Joina supportive team with opportunities to rotate across maternity services

Ifyoure ready to make a difference in the lives of families and grow yourcareer, wed love to hear from you.

Thetrust provides maternity services for the City of Leeds and beyond - an areawith a widely diverse demographic and population.

Wehave a proven history of investing in further training and development forour staff. We support, nurture and guide them in reaching their fullpotential, expanding and increasing their skill sets, thereby enabling theprovision of the very best possible care to our women and their families. Ourdevelopmental programmes/opportunities are widely recognised and highlyregarded. As a trust our vision is to be the best in specialist andintegrated care and we want to be the best place to work. We strive to bepatient centred, fair, collaborative, accountable and empowered. This is TheLeeds Way.

Forfurther information please do not hesitate to contact Emma Weatherhead orSarah Harrington - 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(Rotational)

ReportsTo: Senior Midwife(Sister)

AccountableTo: Matron

Band: 5

Unit/Department: maternity

Location: LGI/StJames's

JOBPURPOSE

Toprovide midwifery care in whichever setting the woman or baby requirescare. This will include hospital,health centres, childrens centres and womens homes. Tobe responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation andevaluation of programmes of care in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatalperiods. To carry out all relevantforms of care with minimal supervision.

Toregularly take charge of the ward in the absence of the Senior Midwife(Sister). To participate in the in-service training andpreceptorship/mentorship of junior staff, post basic learners and students.

3JOB DIMENSIONS

Thematernity unit has approximately 8,500 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 hospital environment caring for women andtheir babies before, during and after pregnancy depending on the area.

S/heparticipates in rotation throughout the maternity service and covers both day/ night shifts and on call as required by service need.

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.

S/hecarries out midwifery care to the highest possible standard according toagreed policies and procedures, as well as the NMC Standards.

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

Sheensures effective communication with health care professionals and otherpersonnel to ensure continued care to the patient and assists in the smoothrunning of the ward/area.

Reportson the changes occurring in treatment and client needs during the shift.

Isprepared to work in areas of the midwifery service other than where based inorder to meet the requirements of the service.

Maintainsthe supply and custody of drugs/medicines etc including keeping agreedregister. Ensures that measuring,administration and recording of all drugs and medicines is carried out inaccordance with the rules of the NMC and according to Trust policy.

Person Specification

Experience

• Previous NHS midwifery experience required
• Midwifery training.
• Knowledge of speciality
• Current issues in healthcare.

Additional Requirements

• Good written and verbal skills
• Ability to organise and prioritise own and others workload
• Understanding of skills and knowledge required to lead and develop team members
• Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post.

Qualifications

• Hold a live NMC PIN
• Degree in midwifery or equivalent.
• Registered Midwife.
• Recognised teaching/ assessing qualification

Skills & behaviours

• Willing to undergo training as necessary.
• Capable of lateral thinking.

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.