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Job summary

Main area
Women and Children Services
Grade
Band 5/6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
Up to 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
328-WAC-7350322
Employer
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The James Cook University Hospital
Town
Middlesbrough
Salary
£31,049 - £46,580 per annum (pro rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/08/2025 23:59

Employer heading

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Midwife

Band 5/6

Job overview

Are you enthusiastic about personalised, woman centred care?

Are you passionate about delivering high quality care?

Do you have a positive and flexible approach to work?

Are you interested in working in a friendly and supportive environment?

Then South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the Trust for you! We are offering an exciting opportunity for a motivated, enthusiastic and inspirational band 5 or band 6 midwife, to join our dynamic Midwifery team.

We are a dynamic and diverse Trust, with a friendly and supportive  atmosphere and our team delivers of over 5500 births a year between our two hospitals; The James Cook University Hospital and the Friarage Midwifery-led unit.

Main duties of the job

As a Newly Registered Midwife, we offer an innovative, robust, comprehensive 12-month preceptorship programme, designed to support your transition and to successfully achieve the required competencies to progress to a confident band 6.

We provide an in-depth induction programme and continuous support throughout with clinical and practical skills, training, and pastoral care with full support from our dedicated Preceptorship Lead Midwife.

You will have the opportunity to rotate to all maternity areas in our Trust, including community, to maximise your professional development and gain relevant experience.

If you are an experienced band 6 midwife, we offer a bespoke training induction to smooth your  transition into our team and we welcome your fresh energy, experience and passion to drive our service forward. You will have the opportunity to utilise your well-honed skills to provide antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care for women and their families in our area.

This vacancy will close once sufficient applications have been received. 

Working for our organisation

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff.  This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.  You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

•    Your Leadership Impact
•    Leading your Team to Success
•    Leading Into the Future 
•    Service Improvement for Beginners
•    Developing your Service Improvement Skills 
•    Lean Practitioner 

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

•    Explore leadership within the NHS
•    Promote Trust values and behaviours
•    Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills 
•    Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.  

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential criteria
  • NMC registered midwife

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Completion of midwifery qualification working across all areas of maternity.
  • Develop and maintain effective working relationships.
  • To maintain knowledge and work within the midwives code of practice and midwives rules.
  • To ensure knowledge updated and maintained as follows: - •PREP requirements. •Local and national policy development.

Knowledge & Skills

Essential criteria
  • To hold and continually enhance effective communication skills in order to work efficiently within a multidisciplinary team.
  • To maintain clinical skills to provide high quality midwifery care in a variety of settings.
  • To develop skills and experience with the promotion, support and assistance of infant feeding.
  • To utilise their professional judgement to assess problems/conditions and needs to plan care for women and babies

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeStep into healthArmed Forces CovenantBetter Health at Work Award

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lindsey Ford
Job title
Recruitment and retention lead midwife
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01642 850850
Additional information

Ext: 58401

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