Job summary
- Main area
- Women and Child Health - Maternity
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 381-WC-6290523
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust - City Hospital
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Midwife
NHS AfC: Band 6
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a midwife to join our Maternity Team to support women at risk of pre-term birth. We are looking for an experienced midwife with a passion for pre-term prevention and perinatal optimisation
We seek a motivated and compassionate midwife with excellent communication skills and clinical knowledge and a commitment to delivering high quality, personalised care to the families using our service.
This fixed term position is an excellent opportunity to develop skills in audit and clinical education alongside providing excellent midwifery care to women accessing the service.
You will be expected to work autonomously and as part of a team within clinical guidelines and professional sphere of practice and to abide by the NMC Professional Code of Conduct.
The post holder will be responsible for working closely with the Lead Consultant for Pre-Term Birth to monitor and care plan for women at risk of pre-term birth whilst also promoting perinatal optimisation as a clinical midwife within either our community or inpatient areas.
Please note- This vacancy may close early if a large number of applications are received
Main duties of the job
- Support service users to access care within the Consultant Led Antenatal Clinic.
- Provide health promotion advice to women identified as at risk of premature labour and birth.
- Support the Lead Obstetrician for Pre-Term Birth within the Antenatal Clinic setting.
- Participate in audit activity and report themes and trends relating to pre-term labour and birth.
- Participate in the delivery of training and education relating to developments in the management of pre-term birth alongside our Midwifery Clinical Education Team.
- Work with the Saving Babies Lives Midwife to ensure the service is fully implementing Element 5 of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle V3.
- Work clinically within the maternity service to provide care to women and families at all stages of the pregnancy, birth and postnatal journey.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details regarding this vacancy, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post registration experience in continuous clinical practice
- Successfully completed a preceptorship programme
- Evidence of working in all areas of midwifery
- Evidence of well documented and up to date CPD portfolio
- Ability to work autonomously within professional and Trusts Guidelines
- Able to take the professional lead in caring for low risk women
- Experience/evidence of coordinating a maternity ward/clinical/community area
- Counselling skills
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife on NMC professional register
- Mentor/assessor training (or willing to work towards)
- Degree/diploma relevant to speciality
Desirable criteria
- Examination of the newborn course
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Figg
- Job title
- Lead Midwife for Risk & Governance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 507 4264
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