Job summary
Come and join our friendly midwifery team at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital!
Are you ready for a change from your present role? Do you enjoy providing antenatal care? Would you like to enhance the care provided for women/ birthing people during their induction process? Do you want to work for an award winning, well-supported, friendly, dynamic, culturally astute, inclusive environment that puts women/birthing people at the centre of a high standard of care whose
If so, we just might have the job for you!
Our latest CQC report has been published and we have maintained our good rating since 2017 and have been awarded as outstanding for leadership.
We now have an exciting opportunity for a band 6 midwife to join our well-established midwifery team looking after our Induction of Labour (IOL) clients. The induction rate across London is rising and we want to improve this experience for clients within our unit.
At Queen Elizabeth Hospital the 24-hour Induction Suite is based on the co-aligned Greenwich Birth Centre, utilising five single side rooms, providing essential privacy and dignity during the induction process. You will form a close working relationship with the Birth Centre midwifery team, along with our multidisciplinary teams and also become part of our inpatient midwifery team. There will be great opportunities for you, not just enhancing existing midwifery skills, but also being part of the exciting IOL service that we know will improve our patient experience.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to commence care for the women/ birthing people admitted for induction of labour as an autonomous practitioner, working alongside a maternity support worker. This will involve liaising with the Obstetric team and working closely with the labour ward Co-ordinator. Induction care will continue until transfer to labour ward/ Birth centre is required.
You will manage the daily IOL admission list, ensuring clients are accommodated according to clinical priority. Risk assessment will be an essential element of your care, ensuring the appropriate place of induction.
You will need to be competent in providing the necessary care and advice to your clients, depending on their needs. We expect you to have a sound knowledge of all areas of midwifery care, including Antenatal Cardiotocograph interpretation. Training and support is available.
Communication is an essential part of this role. You will need to be an effective communicator, with the ability to ensure the effective smooth running of the IOL Suite. This may involve changing priority of incoming IOL's, escalation of delays in the IOL process or arranging for transfer of clients to our sister site, University Hospital Lewisham, to continue their IOL journey.
About us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be required to provide the full remit of midwifery care for IOL women/birthing people
1. Establish and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups about difficult or complex matters overcoming any problems/barriers in communication.
- Develop and maintain Midwifery knowledge and practice by attending and participating in continuing professional development and contribute to the development of others
3. Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others in own work area
4. Contribute to the development of services
5. Contribute to quality improvement
6. Ensure own actions promote quality and alert other to quality issues. Support people's equality, diversity and rights
7. Assess peoples health and wellbeing needs when those needs are complex and change across the caseload
8. Plan, deliver and evaluate care pathways to address clients complex and changing health and wellbeing needs
9. Lead others in the development of knowledge, ideas and work practice
10. Plan, allocate, assess and provide feedback to team members
11. Maintain and support the efficient use of physical and /or financial resources
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be required to provide the full remit of midwifery care for IOL women/birthing people
1. Establish and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups about difficult or complex matters overcoming any problems/barriers in communication.
- Develop and maintain Midwifery knowledge and practice by attending and participating in continuing professional development and contribute to the development of others
3. Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others in own work area
4. Contribute to the development of services
5. Contribute to quality improvement
6. Ensure own actions promote quality and alert other to quality issues. Support people's equality, diversity and rights
7. Assess peoples health and wellbeing needs when those needs are complex and change across the caseload
8. Plan, deliver and evaluate care pathways to address clients complex and changing health and wellbeing needs
9. Lead others in the development of knowledge, ideas and work practice
10. Plan, allocate, assess and provide feedback to team members
11. Maintain and support the efficient use of physical and /or financial resources
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- NMC approved Practice Assessor / commitment to complete training when appropriate
Desirable
- BSc Honours or MA/MSc (or working towards)
Experience
Essential
- Post Registration experience/competencies completed.
- Ability to assess and plan care for women/birthing people in all aspects of midwifery care.
- Knowledge of how to access emergency services in both hospital and community setting.
- Can interpret CTGs and identify features which deviate from accepted parameters.
- Experienced in resuscitation of the newborn.
- Understands the needs of postnatal women/birthing people
- Computer literacy D
- Experience in caring of women/birthing people in low risk setting including home births and waterbirths.
- Able to deliver a high standard of evidence based individual client care
- Effective communicator with good leadership and interpersonal skills
- Evidence of ability to take charge in the absence of their direct line manager
- Demonstrate midwifery skills underpinned by current evidence oTo include suturing, venepuncture and cannulation or operineal repair/ commitment to achieve competence within 12 months of appointment
- Demonstrate an awareness of the importance of audit and policy
- emonstrate competence in the promotion of infant feeding using experience based practice
Desirable
- NLS Provider course
- Examination of Newborn course
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- NMC approved Practice Assessor / commitment to complete training when appropriate
Desirable
- BSc Honours or MA/MSc (or working towards)
Experience
Essential
- Post Registration experience/competencies completed.
- Ability to assess and plan care for women/birthing people in all aspects of midwifery care.
- Knowledge of how to access emergency services in both hospital and community setting.
- Can interpret CTGs and identify features which deviate from accepted parameters.
- Experienced in resuscitation of the newborn.
- Understands the needs of postnatal women/birthing people
- Computer literacy D
- Experience in caring of women/birthing people in low risk setting including home births and waterbirths.
- Able to deliver a high standard of evidence based individual client care
- Effective communicator with good leadership and interpersonal skills
- Evidence of ability to take charge in the absence of their direct line manager
- Demonstrate midwifery skills underpinned by current evidence oTo include suturing, venepuncture and cannulation or operineal repair/ commitment to achieve competence within 12 months of appointment
- Demonstrate an awareness of the importance of audit and policy
- emonstrate competence in the promotion of infant feeding using experience based practice
Desirable
- NLS Provider course
- Examination of Newborn course
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
