Registered Midwife

Registered Midwife - Band 6 - 22.5 hours - Fixed term 12 months

Required to undertake shifts covering nights, weekends and bank holidays.

To provide direct inpatient midwifery care within a safe environment, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating midwifery care to ensure the safety of women, birthing people and their babies.

We are committed to the continual professional development of midwives within our Trust and run an innovative and well -structured training programme that supports and enhances midwifery skills to project the most recent evidence -based care. We also currently offer a variety of external courses to assist with ongoing continual professional development that pique the interest of midwives including: Aromatherapy, Biomechanics of birth, Maternity critical care, Professional Midwifery Advocates (PMA), Physiological breech birth, Hypnotherapy and many more. We support the wellbeing of staff through the establishment and dedication of a Professional Midwifery Advocacy Service and the additional benefits listed below.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced band 6 midwife to join Stockport NHS Foundation Trust's maternity services. The successful postholder will have the opportunity to develop their skills in a variety of maternity areas including high risk and low risk intrapartum care, maternity triage and antenatal and postnatal inpatient services. At Stockport NHS Foundation Trust we pride ourselves on providing excellent quality care within a supportive, friendly and dynamic team. We currently provide intrapartum inpatient services within two environments: Our birth centre has three pool rooms and a further additional birthing room, all designed to provide a relaxing environment for birth. Our recently redecorated delivery suite promotes a safe yet serene environment and consists of one pool room and a further eight delivery rooms, with a specialist bereavement suite also available. We also have a twenty-eight bed mixed antenatal and postnatal ward that promotes a restful recovery post birth. The maternity triage department is co-located with our antenatal day unit and successfully promotes the use of the Birmingham Symptom Specific Obstetric Triage System to promote safe standards of care. Wherever you work within our unit, we are a friendly, patient-focused team and cement the establishment of our Trust Values.

About us

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers. Our mission is to make a difference every day.

Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you. We recognise that flexible working is important.

We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service. The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice

Job responsibilities

The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focuses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

• Registered Midwife
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the public health agenda
• Knowledge of multiple-agencies working together towards child protection

Experience

• Evidence of multi disciplinary/multi agency working
• Experience of working in Maternity Triage/Using BSOTs or equivalent
• Experience of clinical audit.
• Experience of research activities
• Evidence of leadership skills

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including IT skills Record keeping and documentation
• Ability to make calm rational decisions in the face of adversity
• Capacity to work within a multidisciplinary team
• Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour Treats colleagues and the general public with dignity and respect
• Clinically competent
• Effective organisational skills Good analytical and clinical decision making skills
• Motivated to personal and professional development of self and other junior colleagues.(
• Able to work flexibly rotating on to day and night duty
• Evidence of teaching and assessing skills/ability
• Evidence of self management of workload

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.

Women's Unit, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearpro rata per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

362-NAM6MAT-04-26

Job locations

Women's Unit, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

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