Job summary
Finalists for the Preceptorship Programme of the Year, Nursing Times Awards (2022). We are excited to be able to open applications for newly qualified midwives who are enthusiastic to continue their professional development, consolidating skills and knowledge acquired throughout their degree training.
As a preceptee, you will be well supported by our dedicated preceptorship clinical skills facilitators, whilst undertaking a robust preceptorship programme encompassing clinical and pastoral support. You will receive a period of supernumerary time when you start your role and protected time throughout the programme to attend bespoke training opportunities.
Within our highly skilled and multi-disciplined Maternity Service at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we offer opportunities across both our hospital and community-based maternity settings and can discuss your preferred working areas at interview.
Throughout your preceptorship programme you will develop your skills, knowledge, and autonomy, to prepare you for your transition to a Band 6 Midwife. Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust will continue to support with your continuous professional development throughout your career.
Here at Portsmouth, we are proud to be able to facilitate an average of 5500 births per year. As a Trust, we are lucky to have stand alone birth centres, co-located units and home birth options.
Main duties of the job
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is a forward-thinking and innovative Trust, committed to developing and encouraging their personnel to progress within their career. We offer an excellent benefits package including:
- On-site childcare
- Salary finance schemes
- Health service discounts
- Interest free season ticket loans (travel)
- Onsite gym, swimming pool and fitness classes
- Staff wellbeing services
- Free hire of beach hut
Portsmouth is a vibrant city and tourist destination on the south coast with convenient access to the South Downs National Park and the Isle of Wight and just 90 minutes from London Waterloo by train. Whether your passion is the outdoors, with beaches, sailing, kite surfing, horse-riding and hiking on our doorstep, or culture, with two theatres and a major concert venue in the city, Portsmouth has something for everyone. If history is your hobby, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard offers a rich exploration of Britains naval history, but if retail therapy is more likely to float your boat, you'll find discount designer-label shopping at Gunwharf Quays. If you like to travel and explore, Portsmouth ferries sail to the Channel Islands, France and Spain and cruise ships depart from nearby Southampton to the Mediterranean, Baltic, Caribbean and Nordic seas.
If you feel this role is the one for you, and you want to become a member of our truly valued team and organisation, then we would love to hear from you! Apply today.
About us
The Trust is committed to driving excellence in care for our patients and communities and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission report published 2020 and became a University Hospital. We are ranked as the third in the country for research; embedding education and training across the organisation and we continuously strive to achieve our core values which are at the heart of everything we do. The Trusts main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, starting life as a military hospital over a century ago and now one of the largest hospitals on the south coast and you may have seen us on the TV series Nurses on the Ward. The Trust provides comprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire. The Trust employs over 8,000 staff and are #ProudtobePHU; our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because its the right thing to do, but because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for providing outstanding care and support for patients, colleagues and our community you will find a home at PHU. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in
terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender
identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans
status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To consolidate midwifery training and develop in depth knowledge of midwifery practice.
- To maintain high standards of midwifery care at all times.
- To acquire additional competencies to fulfil the role of the midwife providing total care to women and progress to a band 6 midwife.
- To be responsible for delivering and maintaining a high standard of day to day evidence-based practice for all women in the designated clinical area.
- To engage with women and their families to encourage and promote women centred care.
- To engage and successfully complete the maternity preceptorship programme.
Professional Leadership & Communication
- Work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective communication.
- Provide on call cover as per service need.
- Ensure professional and clinical standards are maintained and developed in response to new evidence.
- Establish and maintain relationships with women, families and the multi-professional team.
- Demonstrate the ability to motivate, negotiate and train others.
- Empower women to make informed choices and act as an advocate as required.
Women Centred Care
- Using a woman focused approach assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual programmes of care, ensuring clinical practice is clinically effective and research based.
- Develop multidisciplinary maternity guidelines through active participation in relevant PODS/forums/focus groups and the dissemination of knowledge.
- Demonstrate a commitment to evidence-based practice, highlight areas for change, then initiate and evaluate evidence to improve and develop woman centred care.
- Promote health education within the clinical area and be able to advise the women, families and others in health promotion.
- Develop and strengthen interpersonal relationships with all members of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring good team working, collaborative working practices and professionalism through liaison with associated services including child Protection, Social Services, teenage pregnancy groups etc.
- Comply with NMC standards for records are maintained to reflect the care, treatment, advice and tests provided.
Service Development Implementation
- Engage in any internal quality assurance and patient safety activities such as audits and incident reporting encouraging others to do the same.
- Monitors the quality of work in own area and alerts others to quality issues, reporting any concerns to the appropriate person.
- Contribute to improving services and be aware of planned service improvements.
Information Resources
- To ensure data is recorded accurately and timely into maternity records and hospital information systems.
- Attend training and updates on implementation of Maternity Information system.
- Maintain confidentiality.
Research and Development
- Has knowledge of the audit process and methods of critically appraising research.
- Demonstrate clinical competence and fitness for purpose.
- Be involved in clinical audit and evaluation of practice in the clinical area.
- Contribute ideas and undertake monitoring with regards to quality of women centred care.
Professional Development
- Demonstrate awareness in dealing with interpersonal conflict and adverse situations/incidents.
- Provide a positive learning environment, participate in teaching and act as a clinical resource/role model.
- In association with Universities of Bournemouth and Southampton take responsibility for the provision of effective mentorship, auditing the clinical learning environment and actioning outcomes.
- Participate in formal and informal review of own performance with designated team leader through personal development plans/knowledge and skills framework.
Other
- Work towards clinical skills requiring accuracy precision and co-ordination, i.e. performing episiotomies, suturing, facilitating birth, injections, cannulation.
- Frequently required to use unpredictable levels of concentration and respond to emergency situations.
- Occasionally required to deal with distressing situations including child protection and difficult family situations
- Required to work in highly unpleasant working conditions, dealing with body fluids and foul linen as well as infectious material.
- Facilitating birth frequently requires the midwife to adopt different postures and alternative positions of stance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To consolidate midwifery training and develop in depth knowledge of midwifery practice.
- To maintain high standards of midwifery care at all times.
- To acquire additional competencies to fulfil the role of the midwife providing total care to women and progress to a band 6 midwife.
- To be responsible for delivering and maintaining a high standard of day to day evidence-based practice for all women in the designated clinical area.
- To engage with women and their families to encourage and promote women centred care.
- To engage and successfully complete the maternity preceptorship programme.
Professional Leadership & Communication
- Work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective communication.
- Provide on call cover as per service need.
- Ensure professional and clinical standards are maintained and developed in response to new evidence.
- Establish and maintain relationships with women, families and the multi-professional team.
- Demonstrate the ability to motivate, negotiate and train others.
- Empower women to make informed choices and act as an advocate as required.
Women Centred Care
- Using a woman focused approach assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual programmes of care, ensuring clinical practice is clinically effective and research based.
- Develop multidisciplinary maternity guidelines through active participation in relevant PODS/forums/focus groups and the dissemination of knowledge.
- Demonstrate a commitment to evidence-based practice, highlight areas for change, then initiate and evaluate evidence to improve and develop woman centred care.
- Promote health education within the clinical area and be able to advise the women, families and others in health promotion.
- Develop and strengthen interpersonal relationships with all members of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring good team working, collaborative working practices and professionalism through liaison with associated services including child Protection, Social Services, teenage pregnancy groups etc.
- Comply with NMC standards for records are maintained to reflect the care, treatment, advice and tests provided.
Service Development Implementation
- Engage in any internal quality assurance and patient safety activities such as audits and incident reporting encouraging others to do the same.
- Monitors the quality of work in own area and alerts others to quality issues, reporting any concerns to the appropriate person.
- Contribute to improving services and be aware of planned service improvements.
Information Resources
- To ensure data is recorded accurately and timely into maternity records and hospital information systems.
- Attend training and updates on implementation of Maternity Information system.
- Maintain confidentiality.
Research and Development
- Has knowledge of the audit process and methods of critically appraising research.
- Demonstrate clinical competence and fitness for purpose.
- Be involved in clinical audit and evaluation of practice in the clinical area.
- Contribute ideas and undertake monitoring with regards to quality of women centred care.
Professional Development
- Demonstrate awareness in dealing with interpersonal conflict and adverse situations/incidents.
- Provide a positive learning environment, participate in teaching and act as a clinical resource/role model.
- In association with Universities of Bournemouth and Southampton take responsibility for the provision of effective mentorship, auditing the clinical learning environment and actioning outcomes.
- Participate in formal and informal review of own performance with designated team leader through personal development plans/knowledge and skills framework.
Other
- Work towards clinical skills requiring accuracy precision and co-ordination, i.e. performing episiotomies, suturing, facilitating birth, injections, cannulation.
- Frequently required to use unpredictable levels of concentration and respond to emergency situations.
- Occasionally required to deal with distressing situations including child protection and difficult family situations
- Required to work in highly unpleasant working conditions, dealing with body fluids and foul linen as well as infectious material.
- Facilitating birth frequently requires the midwife to adopt different postures and alternative positions of stance.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current RM registration with the NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications.
Experience
Essential
- To work towards and commit to midwifery preceptorship programme.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Effective team building skills.
- Interpersonal skills.
- Articulate and knowledgeable in current health care issues.
- Skill in organising resources and establishing priorities.
- The ability to work using own initiative and without supervision.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Skill in organising resources and establishing priorities.
- Ability to develop and maintain record keeping systems and procedures.
- Ability to make clinical, decisional judgements.
- An understanding of the political sensitivities of the Trust.
- Ability to demonstrate confidentiality and trustworthiness.
- Ability to calmly identify priorities and react accordingly.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Effective communicator both orally and on paper.
- Skills in motivating self and others.
- Skills in working with cross functional teams.
- Well-developed influencing skills across disciplines.
- Good management skills.
- Ability to act and ensure delivery of maternity services.
- Responsive and flexible attitude and approach.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current RM registration with the NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications.
Experience
Essential
- To work towards and commit to midwifery preceptorship programme.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Effective team building skills.
- Interpersonal skills.
- Articulate and knowledgeable in current health care issues.
- Skill in organising resources and establishing priorities.
- The ability to work using own initiative and without supervision.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Skill in organising resources and establishing priorities.
- Ability to develop and maintain record keeping systems and procedures.
- Ability to make clinical, decisional judgements.
- An understanding of the political sensitivities of the Trust.
- Ability to demonstrate confidentiality and trustworthiness.
- Ability to calmly identify priorities and react accordingly.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Effective communicator both orally and on paper.
- Skills in motivating self and others.
- Skills in working with cross functional teams.
- Well-developed influencing skills across disciplines.
- Good management skills.
- Ability to act and ensure delivery of maternity services.
- Responsive and flexible attitude and approach.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
