Job summary
Secondment: 12 months
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced passionate registered midwife to lead and manage our community midwifery teams at Walsall Healthcare Trust. You will be experienced, enthusiastic and caring and must be able to work autonomously, demonstrating excellent clinical skills to provide effective, individualised women centred care. You will need to promote normality and the use of alternative therapies for the benefit of low-risk women. If you are looking for the opportunity to work innovatively, using a continuity of carer model, utilizing and developing your midwifery skills within a successful Midwifery community led team then this may be the opportunity for you.
Main duties of the job
Are you a forward thinking midwife? Do you wish to work in a unit committed to the provision of woman centred care? Are you excited by the changes and challenges occurring in Midwifery, maternity services and better births?
You must be flexible, having the ability to work to participate in our on-call manager's rota and shiftsas required to support the midwifery led unit
Successful candidates can look forward to working within a team of dedicated Midwives and Obstetricians. Successful candidates will receive a full orientation programme supported by the professional development team
About us
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is a teaching hospital with a very busy maternity unit providing care to over 3700 women each year. We take great pride in promoting midwifery by delivering holistic women-centered care to our diversWalsall is located centrally within the West Midlands approximately 11 miles from Birmingham with excellent transport links by road and rail to both the North and South UK. There is a busy shopping and entertainment centre within walking distance from the Truste local community.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Are you a forward thinking midwife? Do you wish to work in a unit committed to the provision of woman centred care? Are you excited by the changes and challenges occurring in Midwifery, maternity services and better births?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced passionate registered midwife to lead and manage our community midwifery teams at Walsall Healthcare Trust. You will be experienced, enthusiastic and caring and must be able to work autonomously, demonstrating excellent clinical skills to provide effective, individualised women centred care. You will need to promote normality and the use of alternative therapies for the benefit of low-risk women. If you are looking for the opportunity to work innovatively, using a continuity of carer model, utilizing and developing your midwifery skills within a successful Midwifery community led team then this may be the opportunity for you.
You must be flexible, having the ability to work to participate in our on-call managers rota and shiftsas required to support the midwifery led unit
Successful candidates can look forward to working within a team of dedicated Midwives and Obstetricians. Successful candidates will receive a full orientation programme supported by the professional development team
Job description
Job responsibilities
Are you a forward thinking midwife? Do you wish to work in a unit committed to the provision of woman centred care? Are you excited by the changes and challenges occurring in Midwifery, maternity services and better births?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced passionate registered midwife to lead and manage our community midwifery teams at Walsall Healthcare Trust. You will be experienced, enthusiastic and caring and must be able to work autonomously, demonstrating excellent clinical skills to provide effective, individualised women centred care. You will need to promote normality and the use of alternative therapies for the benefit of low-risk women. If you are looking for the opportunity to work innovatively, using a continuity of carer model, utilizing and developing your midwifery skills within a successful Midwifery community led team then this may be the opportunity for you.
You must be flexible, having the ability to work to participate in our on-call managers rota and shiftsas required to support the midwifery led unit
Successful candidates can look forward to working within a team of dedicated Midwives and Obstetricians. Successful candidates will receive a full orientation programme supported by the professional development team
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- community and mlu based experience
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
- managment of a team
- experience of HR occ health sickness training reviews
Desirable
- experience of an on call system
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- community and mlu based experience
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
- managment of a team
- experience of HR occ health sickness training reviews
Desirable
- experience of an on call system
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).
