About this role
Job summary
High Risk Specialist Midwife
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced midwife to join our Antenatal Clinic team as a High Risk Specialist Midwife.
We look after a diverse population where women/birthing people and their families are treated as individuals providing personalised care.
We are at the forefront of innovation, this includes partners staying overnight, enhanced recovery, and midwifery led induction of labour and normalising birth. We work closely alongside Health Visitors who are also part of our integrated service.
We provide a first class service, which is reflected in the number of positive compliments received from our satisfied service users.
We have a beautiful Birth Centre with four pools and our Labour Ward has two birthing pools and telemetry to encourage normality.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will join the ANC team and work alongside the existing post holder, providing first class midwifery care for our service users on a high risk pathway. They will work closely with the multi disciplinary team as well as the Diabetes Specialist midwife and the Maternal Medicine Specialist midwife.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details. The successful applicant will join the ANC team and work alongside the existing post holder, providing first class midwifery care for our service users on a high risk pathway.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications Essential
Registered Midwife NMC registration First Degree or working towards in relevant subject
Skills & Abilities Essential
Good communication skills. Good counselling and listening skills Understanding of principles of good leadership Understanding of current issues in high risk maternity care Ability to work under pressure and on own initiative
Knowledge & Experience Essential
Post registration experience in all aspects of Midwifery Care Evidence of clinical competence Experience in antenatal care Evidence of teaching and developing junior staff both formally and informally
Desirable
Experience in developing and implementing guidelines Experience of data collection and analysis Experience of counselling
PERSONAL QUALITIES Essential
Evidence of recent personal development activity Demonstrates an ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team Role model
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 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address Whittington Hospital
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)