About this role
Job summary
The post holder will practice as a midwife within the maternity services in University Hospitals Birmingham working day duty, night duty, weekend and bank holidays and participate in on call when working in the community and continuity of care teams. The post holder will work in all areas of maternity service.
There are a number of vacancies available -- full time, part time, permanent and fixed term/secondment.
To work as an autonomous, accountable and experienced practitioner and a lead professional in the provision of care to women and their families.
To provide all relevant forms of specialised programmes of care and advice to women and their families, including responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period.
To practice in any area in maternity services.
To provide and promote low risk physiological birth with women centred care at the forefront.
To recognise deviations of normality and communicate with the wider team to facilitate transfer of care to consultant led care.
Main duties of the job
*The post holder will practice as a midwife within the maternity services in University Hospitals Birmingham, working day duty, night duty/ weekends/ bank holidays.
*The post holder will work as an autonomous, accountable and experienced practitioner, providing low risk antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care.
*To work within a flexible manner that allows you to meet the individualised needs of the women for whom you are the known or lead midwife and to provide support to team members if necessary.
*Strong communication skills will be integral to your role within your team, the wider maternity service and key workers, both internal and external to the organisation.
*Act as the professional lead for women, promoting the normal birthing process.
*To maintain a professional, approachable disposition at all times with all members of staff, patients and their visitors
*Deliver culturally competent midwifery care that is sensitive, kind, and empathetic.
* To maintain clinical skills and competencies including adult and neonatal resuscitation, suturing, and venepuncture as appropriate
*As a visible clinical midwife promote teamwork within a multi professional environment. Ensuring care is aligned to the professional values of care, compassion, and respect.
*Responsible for carrying out clinical practice within designated clinical area, ensuring that high quality current evidenced based midwifery care underpins all actions and interactions with women.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description Job responsibilities *Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
*Registered Midwife on part 2 of the NMC Professional register
Desirable
*NIPE qualification *NLS qualification
Experience Essential
*Completion of pre or post registration midwifery programme *Return to midwifery practice *Ability to work autonomously within professional and Trust guidelines *Able to take the professional lead in caring for low-risk women *Knowledge of needs of high and low risk women and neonates *Knowledge of child protection issues and when to take action *Knowledge to competently perform and interpret fetal heart auscultation, cardiotocography *Knowledge to safely use medical devices and other equipment required for practice *Knowledge of legal and ethical principles in midwifery for choice, consent, client autonomy *Knowledge to safely manage epidurals in labour *Understanding of risk management *Able to enter data on computer for notification of births, and patient records *Able to collect data for statistics audit *Able to use computer package to generate growth charts
Additional Criteria Essential
*Use appropriate moving and handling techniques antenatally, when assisting women during their chosen position, assisting women in giving birth, post operatively, for postnatal care and whilst assisting with breast feeding *Manual dexterity and good hand eye co-ordination for vaginal examination, venepuncture, cannulation, performing episiotomy, suturing, various injections *Possess good written communication skill to maintain clear, concise contemporaneous records *Able to write reports and format policies *Effective customer care skills *Able to speak, receive and issue instructions in English without risk of misunderstanding *Be able to communicate effectively via telephone, individual or within group discussion *Ability to proficiently utilise interpreters *Ability to sensitively communicate distressing information and discuss sensitive issues (i.e., Intra Uterine death, still birth, fetal abnormality, child protection issues) *Communicate effectively, and offer support to aggressive and distressed women/family members *To communicate effectively with multidisciplinary team and outside agencies *Take opportunities to impart knowledge at an appropriate level for health promotion, parent education and mentoring students and junior midwives *Have a high level of commitment, motivation, innovation and initiative *Ability to prioritise *Must be willing to work cross site and to support all clinical areas in times of high acuity and escalation. *Must be able to work shifts including weekends, Bank Holidays etc.
Desirable
*Able to ask for support *Good problem solving and decision-making skills *Have confidence to be an effective advocate for women
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 University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address Trustwide
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)