Job summary
Are you an Early Career midwife looking to start your career?
Are you a Band 5 looking for new opportunities?
OR an experienced band 6 looking for a new direction?
We currently have opportunities for you to join our maternity team, providing high quality midwifery care to women across our services.
You will work within our well established multi-disciplinary teams delivering evidence based care ensuring positive safe outcomes for all.
Band 6 applicants will have the possibility of a core midwifery post on the Antenatal/Postnatal ward or Community midwifery.
Main duties of the job
To assess and support the physical and psychological wellbeing of pregnant, labouring and postpartum women and their families.
This will include risk assessments, care pathway planning including both high and low risk scenarios within the parameters of your role as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team.
Depending on your experience you will participate in teaching, supervising, supporting and assessing junior staff and students.
If you are a band 5 midwife, you will join the Trust Preceptorship pathway to consolidate your knowledge and skills in order to achieve your band 6.
You will contribute to ensuring our culture of high quality care is delivered within a psychologically safe team environment and engage in the ever changing and progression of learning within maternity care.
About us
DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues. At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions. As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:o Extensive range of learning opportunitieso NHS Pension Schemeo Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditionso Comprehensive health and wellbeing supporto NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemeo Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read both documents carefully.Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
Certificate of sponsorship
Applications from individuals who require a Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applicants. For further information and to check your eligibility for this post please following the link UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK. Please note that from April 9th 2025, band 2 & 3 entry roles are no longer eligible for sponsorship.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read both documents carefully.Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
Certificate of sponsorship
Applications from individuals who require a Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applicants. For further information and to check your eligibility for this post please following the link UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK. Please note that from April 9th 2025, band 2 & 3 entry roles are no longer eligible for sponsorship.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience in providing midwifery care in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period and those requiring obstetric care
- Experience of providing care in the hospital and community settings
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Current NMC registration or working towards
Desirable
- Knowledge of Trust Policies and Procedures
Personal Attributes and Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills
- Evidence of working effectively with the multi-disciplinary team
- Able to promote equality, diversity and rights
- Demonstrate excellent standards of conduct and behaviour which includes punctuality
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience in providing midwifery care in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period and those requiring obstetric care
- Experience of providing care in the hospital and community settings
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Current NMC registration or working towards
Desirable
- Knowledge of Trust Policies and Procedures
Personal Attributes and Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills
- Evidence of working effectively with the multi-disciplinary team
- Able to promote equality, diversity and rights
- Demonstrate excellent standards of conduct and behaviour which includes punctuality
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
Address
Doncaster and Bassetlaw hospitals (cross-site)
Armthorpe Road
Doncaster
DN2 5LT
Employer's website
https://www.dbth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
