Midwife - Band 6

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Midwife

Division: Planned Care

Care Group: Women & Children's Service

Band: 6

Salary: £33,706 - £40,588 per annum/pro rata

Assessment Date & Interview date: Wednesday 20th September 2023

We are recruiting for a Midwife who shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest of Care by the Best Peopleand has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

We would like to invite you to join our highly motivated midwifery team where commitment to providing high quality, woman-centred care is our main priority. We require a self-motivated, dynamic professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to join our proactive maternity team.

Medway Maternity services support approximately 5,000 women and babies per annum. We are forward thinking with motivated staff who strive to improve the quality of the service that we offer to our women, their babies and their families. We have achieved and sustained Baby Friendly Initiative Stage 3 and are now working to maintain this, and provide professional development opportunities for all levels of staff.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

About us

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards "we work flexibly" as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Date posted

29 August 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

Reference number

275-2308MID6-1

Job locations

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Windmill Road

Gillingham

ME7 5NY


Job description

Job responsibilities

Medway Maternity Services support approximately 5,000 women and babies per annum. We are forward thinking with motivated midwives, obstetricians and support teams, who strive to improve the quality of the service that we offer to our women, their babies and their families. We have achieved and sustained Baby Friendly Initiative Stage 3; won national awards including the RCM Team of the year in 2019 and provide a variety of professional development opportunities for all levels of staff.

If you are a registered band 6 midwife, or within 4 months of completing a preceptorship programme, and have experience of working within the NHS, we will welcome your application.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Medway Maternity Services support approximately 5,000 women and babies per annum. We are forward thinking with motivated midwives, obstetricians and support teams, who strive to improve the quality of the service that we offer to our women, their babies and their families. We have achieved and sustained Baby Friendly Initiative Stage 3; won national awards including the RCM Team of the year in 2019 and provide a variety of professional development opportunities for all levels of staff.

If you are a registered band 6 midwife, or within 4 months of completing a preceptorship programme, and have experience of working within the NHS, we will welcome your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Midwife

Knowledge

Essential

  • Demonstrates awareness of key issues currently impacting on the midwifery profession and service
  • Demostrates understanding of national & local guidelines, policies & procedures

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of providing midwifery care in both hospital and community services.
  • Experience in providing midwifery care to mothers experiencing normal pregnancy and birth and those requiring obstetric care.

Skills

Essential

  • Good communication skills
  • Positive attitude to personal growth & development

Values Based Question

Essential

  • Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a 'can do' attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Midwife

Knowledge

Essential

  • Demonstrates awareness of key issues currently impacting on the midwifery profession and service
  • Demostrates understanding of national & local guidelines, policies & procedures

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of providing midwifery care in both hospital and community services.
  • Experience in providing midwifery care to mothers experiencing normal pregnancy and birth and those requiring obstetric care.

Skills

Essential

  • Good communication skills
  • Positive attitude to personal growth & development

Values Based Question

Essential

  • Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a 'can do' attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome

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

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Windmill Road

Gillingham

ME7 5NY


Employer's website

https://www.medway.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Windmill Road

Gillingham

ME7 5NY


Employer's website

https://www.medway.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Midwife

Rebecca Mulvanny

rebecca.mulvanny@nhs.net

Date posted

29 August 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

Reference number

275-2308MID6-1

Job locations

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Windmill Road

Gillingham

ME7 5NY


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