Antenatal Clinic Midwife

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

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Job summary

The successful applicants will be motivated, passionate and dedicated to providing high quality women-centred care, with with UK NMC registration.

You will work collaboratively within our multidisciplinary team in an environment that is open, supportive and empowering. Your experience will ensure that you provide a high standard of care to our mothers and their families.

As a member of our team you will be professional, reliable, safe and compassionate and have excellent communication skills and a progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through evidence based practice.

This post is a cross site post to work at both City and QMC campus.

Main duties of the job

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.

The role of the Antenatal clinic midwife is to work as part of the Antenatal clinic team ensuring safe effective evidence based midwifery care for women and their families. You will work collaboratively with the maternity support workers, sonographers and admin staff to ensuring the smooth running of the clinic .You will need to have excellent communication skills to enable you to work effectively with the multidisciplinary team.

You will need to be a supportive team member to develop a working environment that encourages team working amongst staff and Identify and minimise interpersonal conflicts that may affect team or individual performance.

The role entails training to be competent as a vaccinator to deliver the flu and Pertussis programme in maternity.

About us

With over 17,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Date posted

26 July 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

164-5491044

Job locations

Across Both Campus

Derby Road/Hucknall Road

Nottingham

NG5 1PB

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are committed to providing high quality care for women and families; ensuring our practice and research addresses local needs through continual engagement with women, their families and our teams. The job description includes

To provide high quality, safe, care for all pregnant women and their families in a variety of settings.

To offer models of care personalised to individual need, promoting equality and respecting the diversity of the client groups.

To co-ordinate clinic and ensure the smooth journey for the women attending clinic.

Work as part of the multidisciplinary team, supporting the medical staff within the clinic setting.

Tracking and auctioning of blood results. .

Working as part of the team within clinic, supporting the maternity support workers, sonographers and admin staff.

Any other duty as reasonably required.

To effectively communicate complicated and sensitive information to women, their families and members of a multi-disciplinary team.

Adhere to and encourage others to utilize appropriate NMC and local standards for record keeping and all written documentation ensuring client and colleague confidentiality at all times.

Deal appropriately with positive and negative feedback from women, recognising the wider implications for the team. Ensure changes are implemented based on feedback and learning lessons.

Work as a team member to develop a working environment that encourages team working amongst staff. Identify and minimise interpersonal conflicts that may affect team or individual performance.

Provide cover for colleagues as necessary, including out of hours coveron a rotational basis, ensuring appropriate liaison to maintain continuity of care.

Able to demonstrate effective multi-disciplinary team working skills and abilities to ensure agreed objectives are achieved. Utilises others to address challenges within the working team.

Liaise, communicate and work in partnership with a variety of multi-agency teams

Contribute to the performance management of antenatal servicesby ensuring data collection and audit information is submitted in a timelymanner

Provide evidence based midwifery care to women and their babies with the responsibility for assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.

Able to manage effectively all aspects of clinical practice.

Working in partnership with women and their partners, offer opportunities for them to make well informed decisions about their care throughout pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.

Able to implement changes in midwifery practice to improve health outcomes for mothers and their babies.

To work autonomously within guidelines, policies and procedures and spheres of professional practice when carrying out midwifery care. Contribute to their development, implementation and evaluation.

Work within Nottingham City Safeguarding Childrens Board procedures at all times. Know how to record and share information and understand the differences between information sharing on individual, organisational and professional levels.

Utilise multi-agency frameworks and child protection assessment processes including the use of the common assessment framework.

Work in partnership with other agencies to provide effective parent education programmes.

Able to manage effectively expectations of women and their families.