About this role
Job summary
At UHB, providing high-quality, woman-centred care is at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to supporting women and families to make informed choices about their pregnancy and birth experience, while promoting safe, personalised and compassionate care across all maternity settings.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and forward-thinking service with opportunities to work across our maternity sites, gaining experience in a wide range of clinical environments. We welcome applications from experienced midwives who are passionate about delivering evidence-based care and committed to continuously improving outcomes and experiences for women and families.
We are particularly interested in hearing from midwives with experience or a specific interest in maternity triage, although this is not essential. Successful candidates will work within multidisciplinary teams to provide safe and effective care across the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal pathway.
Led by an experienced and supportive leadership team, we are committed to staff wellbeing, professional development and career progression. We offer a range of learning and development opportunities aligned with NHS England priorities and future workforce development pathways, enabling you to further develop your clinical skills and leadership potential.
Main duties of the job
Job Summary Continued:
Our maternity transformation plans are ambitious, with a strong focus on safety, personalised care, innovation and collaboration with the communities we serve. If you are a passionate and driven midwife looking to develop your career within a dynamic and progressive maternity service, we would love to hear from you.
Come and be part of our journey as we continue to build and shape the future of maternity services at University Hospitals Birmingham.
Main Duties and Tasks:
*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.
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
Main Duties and Tasks: Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.
* 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
* Registered Midwife on the NMC register * Diploma/BSc Degree in Midwifery Studies * Evidence of successful completion of Band 5 Preceptorship Programme and midwifery competency documentation
Desirable
* Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) qualification * Mentor/Practice Assessor or Supervisor preparation (or willingness to undertake) * Newborn Life Support (NLS) training
Experience Essential
* Demonstrable post-registration experience across a range of midwifery settings (e.g. antenatal,intrapartum, postnatal, community or triage) * Experience of delivering holistic, woman-centred care using evidence ased practice * Knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures, with ability to recognise and escalate concerns appropriately * Understanding of current national and local maternity priorities, clinical guidelines and best practice * Experience of assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for women with a range of clinical and social needs * Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team and contributing to coordinated care delivery * Awareness of risk management, incident reporting and patient safety processes
Desirable
* Experience of attending Home Births * Experience of supporting women with complex needs and/or from vulnerable or socially excluded groups * Involvement in audit, quality improvement or service development initiatives
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 Heartlands Hospital
Bordesley Green E
Birmingham
West Midlands
B9 5SS
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)