Job summary
Are you an experienced Midwife looking for an exciting secondment opportunity at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust providing maternity care to women and their families from the local population. This is an ideal secondment opportunity to support the area with your expert clinical knowledge and develop your managerial and leadership experience.
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic Senior Midwife to lead and manage the Antenatal Clinic and Maternity Triage/Daycare at the Royal Derby Hospital site.
Main duties of the job
As a senior midwife for Antenatal Clinic and Maternity Triage/Daycare you will take overall responsibility and accountability in ensuring women, babies and families receive safe, clinically effective, women centred care across the whole maternity care pathway.
You will lead by example, offer expert midwifery clinical advice, operationally support and manage teams and services ensuring the delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate midwifery care.
You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver care to women and babies within acute or community clinical environments whose needs are complex.
You will work flexibly across the service in supporting the delivery of midwifery care, using a range of service models, including continuity of carer. Senior midwives provide expert clinical and professional midwifery leadership and are accountable for the women, babies, public and staff experience. This will be in line with local, Trust wide and national policies, procedures, values and behaviours.
Closing date of applications: 07 October 2024
Interview date: 24 October 2024
If you are applying for an Internal Secondment, please ensure you have spoken to your line manager and have their support prior to your application. Please speak to the Recruitment Team if you have any questions.
About us
At UHDB around 9,000 babies are born across our two sites each year at Royal Derby Hospital (RDH) and Queens Hospital Burton (QHB). We provide antenatal and postnatal care for 11,500 women each year and, at RDH, we offer an alongside birth centre. We support women through low and high-risk care pathways, and some specialty pathways like diabetes and cardiology.
We have staff who are kind, caring and compassionate, and who want to deliver exceptional care together for every person who needs us - and that remains our aspiration.
This is an exciting new era on our maternity improvement journey, following a £5.4million into our services to strengthen our workforce, our technology and our processes, so that we can further improve what we do and deliver the best quality care to women and their babies. This is a great opportunity to join UHDB and make a real impact for the women and families we care for.
As a University Trustwe value learning, teaching, and training so that we help you to be the best that you can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, and we always want to treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves.
An extensive induction package is offered to successful candidates joining our Maternity services to ensure you are well supported and have time to adjust to working within our teams.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and Person Specification. To apply please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account.
Following the recent update on UK immigration policy for those on a Health and Care Visa or Skilled Worker Visa, please click on the link to check your eligibility before applying for this post as we may be unable to provide sponsorship Impacts of the changes to the UK immigration policy | NHS Employers
We have:
An inclusive and supportive culture - our Trust encourages staff to bring their whole selves to work and active Staff Networks to identify areas for improvement.
Employee Support and wellbeing - we have a comprehensive Employee Health & Wellbeing Programme which includes a counselling service and a range of activities.
Staff benefits - We have a range of staff benefits and schemes to support staff health, engagement, wellbeing and inclusion.
Details of UHDB sites
We have three wards across two sites, with a total of 88 beds for antenatal, postnatal and induction of labour. At Royal Derby Hospital there are:
17 delivery rooms including one pool room and bereavement suite.Four bedded Midwife led birth centre.
Four bedded Obstetric Enhanced Care area and a two bedded assessment bay
Queens Hospital Burton has seven delivery rooms including one pool room and one bereavement suite.
Samuel Johnson Community Hospital currently does not provide intrapartum care but runs as a community midwifery hub.
Where we are now:
We are focused on making progress as well as implementing valuable learning from recent external reviews and reports into the service.
We want to:
Be fully compliant against all national safety measures.
Embed recommended changes from recent reviews of our service.
Make sure we communicate well with families, so that every woman feels properly listened to and that we act on their feedback.
Create the best possible environment at work for our teams to do their job.
Do the things we have said we will do, including how we make sure we have learned and made changes when something has not gone well.
A lot of work is underway already, and we welcome applications from those who want to be a part of that journey.
If you would like to look around our Maternity Unit and find out more about our Midwifery posts, please contact us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and Person Specification. To apply please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account.
Following the recent update on UK immigration policy for those on a Health and Care Visa or Skilled Worker Visa, please click on the link to check your eligibility before applying for this post as we may be unable to provide sponsorship Impacts of the changes to the UK immigration policy | NHS Employers
We have:
An inclusive and supportive culture - our Trust encourages staff to bring their whole selves to work and active Staff Networks to identify areas for improvement.
Employee Support and wellbeing - we have a comprehensive Employee Health & Wellbeing Programme which includes a counselling service and a range of activities.
Staff benefits - We have a range of staff benefits and schemes to support staff health, engagement, wellbeing and inclusion.
Details of UHDB sites
We have three wards across two sites, with a total of 88 beds for antenatal, postnatal and induction of labour. At Royal Derby Hospital there are:
17 delivery rooms including one pool room and bereavement suite.Four bedded Midwife led birth centre.
Four bedded Obstetric Enhanced Care area and a two bedded assessment bay
Queens Hospital Burton has seven delivery rooms including one pool room and one bereavement suite.
Samuel Johnson Community Hospital currently does not provide intrapartum care but runs as a community midwifery hub.
Where we are now:
We are focused on making progress as well as implementing valuable learning from recent external reviews and reports into the service.
We want to:
Be fully compliant against all national safety measures.
Embed recommended changes from recent reviews of our service.
Make sure we communicate well with families, so that every woman feels properly listened to and that we act on their feedback.
Create the best possible environment at work for our teams to do their job.
Do the things we have said we will do, including how we make sure we have learned and made changes when something has not gone well.
A lot of work is underway already, and we welcome applications from those who want to be a part of that journey.
If you would like to look around our Maternity Unit and find out more about our Midwifery posts, please contact us.
Person Specification
Education, Training and Qualifications
Essential
- First class degree or equivalent.
- NMC registration & revalidation requirements.
Desirable
- experience of managing a budget
- experience of facilitating appraisals/staff development
- experience of E roster
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of management / leadership skills gained through theoretical knowledge and or experience.
- Specific knowledge of the clinical area / speciality.
Desirable
- Experience of mentoring, supporting, coaching and developing staff.
- Experience of managing a delegated budget
- Experience of facilitating appraisals, staff development and confirmers to support NMC revalidation.
- Experience of HR policies, including management of performance, sickness /absences and participation in the recruitment and selection of staff.
Skills and Ability
Essential
- Takes the lead for implementing some policies/procedures and influences changes to practice/ procedures where necessary.
Desirable
- Experience of planning and adjusting staff rotas/ E-roster reflecting adjustments made due to skill mix and safe staffing
Person Specification
Education, Training and Qualifications
Essential
- First class degree or equivalent.
- NMC registration & revalidation requirements.
Desirable
- experience of managing a budget
- experience of facilitating appraisals/staff development
- experience of E roster
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of management / leadership skills gained through theoretical knowledge and or experience.
- Specific knowledge of the clinical area / speciality.
Desirable
- Experience of mentoring, supporting, coaching and developing staff.
- Experience of managing a delegated budget
- Experience of facilitating appraisals, staff development and confirmers to support NMC revalidation.
- Experience of HR policies, including management of performance, sickness /absences and participation in the recruitment and selection of staff.
Skills and Ability
Essential
- Takes the lead for implementing some policies/procedures and influences changes to practice/ procedures where necessary.
Desirable
- Experience of planning and adjusting staff rotas/ E-roster reflecting adjustments made due to skill mix and safe staffing
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).
