Senior Staff Nurse/Midwife

NHS; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Stoke-on-Trent seeks a Senior Staff Nurse/Midwife. The ideal candidate will manage clinical areas focused on early pregnancy care and have experience with early pregnant women. Responsibilities include organizing workloads, ensuring safe staffing, and facilitating patient care. Applicants must be registered nurses with significant NHS experience and a qualification in early pregnancy scanning. This role offers a chance to make a genuine impact on patient care.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse or midwife qualified and registered with NMC.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in the NHS required.
• Experience working with early pregnant women is essential.

Responsibilities

• Organize and delegate workloads during shifts.
• Ensure safe staffing levels and oversee patient care.
• Facilitate smooth patient admission and discharge.

Skills

Experience with early pregnant women

Understanding of role requirements

Empathy and compassion

Education

Registered nurse or midwife

Minimum of 3 years experience in the NHS

Current NMC registration

Qualification in early pregnancy scanning

Job description

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

Senior Staff Nurse/Midwife

The closing date is 01 December 2025

This role is suited for a professional with a passion for the early pregnancy care, there is an expectation that they will hold a qualification in early pregnancy scanning or be prepared to undertake the course. They will have delegated responsibility for the management of the clinical areas including assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and the setting of standards on a shift basis. The Senior Staff Nurse has delegated responsibility for the clinical decision making within a Nurse led Service.

This post is open to both Nurses and Midwives

Main duties of the job

This role is based on the Early Pregnancy Unit at UHNM, it is nurse lead and currently runs as an out patient facility.

• There is an expectation that the successful applicant will be an experienced earl pregnancy sonographer, or be prepared to undertake the course.

Responsibilities

• On a rostered duty can organise own workload and can delegate and supervise other members of the team working in the vicinity
• Can prioritise workload to manage the care for a group of patients
• When rostered in charge take action to ensure safe staffing levels on each shift. When rostered in charge have an overview of all patients on the unit, receiving handover on all patients and able to give advice to other staff member
• Be responsible for the assessment of needs, development, implementation and evaluations of patient care in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Conduct and reflect the Trusts policies, procedures, standards and guidelines.
• To facilitate the admission and discharge of patients liaising with other agencies to ensure continuity of care between hospital and community.
• Ensure the delivery of holistic patient care recognising the individual needs of patients and their relatives.

About us

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

Job responsibilities

• As a shift leader provide support, supervision and direction to clinical colleagues by acting as a professional, credible role model.
• Maintain accurate records relating to a patients condition.
• Undertake surveys as necessary to own work / complex surveys relating to the project.
• To ensure that nursing care activities are evidence based.
• To participate in maintaining and monitoring standards of care to the optimum level.
• Works autonomously. Required to act independently within appropriate guidelines, deciding when it is necessary to refer to their manager.
• Will be required to be able to undertake a range of manual procedures including assistance with the movement of patients and equipment.
• To be able to manoeuvre between patients quickly to ensure emergency situations can be attended in a timely fashion.
• Ability to interpret complex information when there may be frequent, unplanned interruptions throughout the shift.
• May be exposed to distressing circumstances around breaking bad news, dealing with bereaved relatives.

Person Specification

Essential Qualifications

• Registered nurse or midwife
• minimum of 3 years experience in the NHS
• Holds a current NMC registration
• Hold a qualification in early pregnancy scanning

Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience

• Has experience of working with early pregnant women
• Evidence of continued education
• Has an understanding of the requirements of the role
• Can describe the challenges of the role
• Shows empathy, compassion and sensitivity as required for this role

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.

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust