Band 5 / 6 Midwife - Maternity

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

UHB are excited to offer an amazing opportunity for midwives to join our teams on the Midwifery Led Units. We are seeking Band 5 and Band 6 Midwives who are passionate about physiological birth and providing exemplary low risk care to women and their babies.

We are looking to appoint self-motivated, enthusiastic, dynamic Registered Midwives. Facilitating and supporting women's birth place choices, providing woman centred care is at the heart of our philosophy. There will be opportunities to work cross-site on both the Midwife Led Units at Heartlands and Good Hope Hospitals and also opportunities to work as an Integrated Midwife on the MLU/ Delivery Suite/ Community

Being led by a supportive management team, we can offer excellent opportunities for further career development in line with NHS England requirements. Supporting and implementing the vision of both Better Births and the Three-year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services thus ensuring the delivery of safe, personalised, and equitable care for women babies and their families.

If you are passionate and driven to provide high quality midwife- led care and would like to join our dynamic and enthusiastic team then this could be the perfect opportunity for you. Our plans are ambitious -- why not come and be a part of our journey!

We very much look forward to hearing from you!

Main duties of the job

*The post holder will practice as a midwife within the maternity services in University Hospitals Birmingham, working day duty, night duty/ weekends/ bank holidays.

*The post holder will work as an autonomous, accountable and experienced practitioner, providing low risk antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care.

*To work within a flexible manner that allows you to meet the individualised needs of the women for whom you are the known or lead midwife and to provide support to team members if necessary.

*Strong communication skills will be integral to your role within your team, the wider maternity service and key workers, both internal and external to the organisation.

*Act as the professional lead for women, promoting the normal birthing process.

*To maintain a professional, approachable disposition at all times with all members of staff, patients and their visitors

*Deliver culturally competent midwifery care that is sensitive, kind, and empathetic.

* To maintain clinical skills and competencies including adult and neonatal resuscitation, suturing, and venepuncture as appropriate

*As a visible clinical midwife promote teamwork within a multi professional environment. Ensuring care is aligned to the professional values of care, compassion, and respect.

*Responsible for carrying out clinical practice within designated clinical area, ensuring that high quality current evidenced based midwifery care underpins all actions and interactions with women.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Date posted

18 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£29,970 to £44,962 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

304-54091PM

Job locations

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

*Registered Midwife on part 2 of the NMC Professional register with a minimum of 6 months employed experience as a midwife.

Experience

Essential

*Completion of pre or post registration midwifery programme
*Return to midwifery practice
*Ability to work autonomously within professional and Trust guidelines
*Able to take the professional lead in caring for low-risk women
*Knowledge of needs of high and low risk women and neonates
*Knowledge of child protection issues and when to take action
*Knowledge to competently perform and interpret fetal heart auscultation, cardiotocography
*Knowledge to safely use medical devices and other equipment required for practice
*Knowledge of legal and ethical principles in midwifery for choice, consent, client autonomy
*Knowledge to safely manage epidurals in labour
*Understanding of risk management
*Able to enter data on computer for notification of births, and patient records
*Able to collect data for statistics audit
*Able to use computer package to generate growth charts

Additional Criteria

Essential

*Have a high level of commitment, motivation, innovation and initiative
*Ability to prioritise
*Must be willing to work cross site and to support all clinical areas in times of high acuity and escalation.
*Must be able to work shifts including weekends, Bank Holidays etc.

Desirable

*Able to ask for support
*Good problem solving and decision-making skills
*Have confidence to be an effective advocate for women

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

*Registered Midwife on part 2 of the NMC Professional register with a minimum of 6 months employed experience as a midwife.

Experience

Essential

*Completion of pre or post registration midwifery programme
*Return to midwifery practice
*Ability to work autonomously within professional and Trust guidelines
*Able to take the professional lead in caring for low-risk women
*Knowledge of needs of high and low risk women and neonates
*Knowledge of child protection issues and when to take action
*Knowledge to competently perform and interpret fetal heart auscultation, cardiotocography
*Knowledge to safely use medical devices and other equipment required for practice
*Knowledge of legal and ethical principles in midwifery for choice, consent, client autonomy
*Knowledge to safely manage epidurals in labour
*Understanding of risk management
*Able to enter data on computer for notification of births, and patient records
*Able to collect data for statistics audit
*Able to use computer package to generate growth charts

Additional Criteria

Essential

*Have a high level of commitment, motivation, innovation and initiative
*Ability to prioritise
*Must be willing to work cross site and to support all clinical areas in times of high acuity and escalation.
*Must be able to work shifts including weekends, Bank Holidays etc.

Desirable

*Able to ask for support
*Good problem solving and decision-making skills
*Have confidence to be an effective advocate for women

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).