Rotational Midwife Band 5/6

NHS; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust as a Rotational Midwife Band 5/6. This role offers the opportunity to work across various areas of midwifery, ensuring comprehensive care for women and families. Ideal for both early career and experienced midwives, this position emphasizes professional development and flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a band 5/6 or above.
• Documented evidence of continuous professional development.
• Knowledge and experience of dealing with Safeguarding in Maternity Services.

Responsibilities

• Assesses, develops, implements and evaluates programmes of care.
• Supports, supervises and teaches less experienced staff.
• Works autonomously within the department/team.

Skills

Clinical practice

Leadership

Teaching

Education

Degree or equivalent in midwifery

Registered Midwife

Teaching qualification or experience

Job description

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Rotational Midwife Band 5/6

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Job summary

Suitable for early career or experienced midwives.

Join us on our improvement journey in Northern Lincolnshire and Goole towards 'Better Births'. There are posts in all aspects of Midwifery and the opportunity to maintain all your skills as a rotational midwife in a forward looking service with staff that has the enthusiasm to improve care for women and families.

The unit has been awarded BFI Level 3 (GOLD). We have exciting opportunities for new and experienced midwives to join our established team of midwives at NLAG.

The position is a rotational post which includes working in all areas stated below. For band 5 midwives this rotation will continue after completion of preceptorship.

o Community including continuity teams Daisy and Poppy (Grimsby only)

o Antenatal clinic and ADU (antenatal day unit)/Pregnancy Assessment Centre PAC

o Antenatal/postnatal ward care

o Labour care including theatres

o Triage (telephone and clinical care 24 hours a day)

Main duties of the job

Assesses, develops, implements and evaluates programmes of care in a range of environments, without supervision.

Supports, supervises and teaches less experienced staff on the ward/team relevant clinical and non-clinical procedures and practices.

Works autonomously within the department/team within Trust guidelines and sphere of professional practice.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

Person Specification

Education and qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in midwifery
• Registered Midwife
• oTeaching qualification or experience
• oKnowledge and experience of dealing with Safeguarding in Maternity Services
• oSSSA or supervisor status

Occupational experience & experience

• Previous experience as a band 5/6 or above
• Demonstrate evidence of clinical practice
• Documented evidence of continuous professional development
• Evidence of leading change
• Experience of critiquing clinical evidence

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.

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust