Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Join our supportive and dynamic maternity team, delivering high-quality care to women and families across hospital and community settings.

What You’ll Do

• Provide holistic, evidence-based care, assessing, planning, and evaluating women’s needs.

• Administer medicines safely, perform clinical procedures, and respond to emergencies.

• Advocate for women and families, promoting health and wellbeing.

• Work autonomously while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team and contributing to a 24-hour on-call rota.

• Support, supervise, and teach staff and students, promoting ongoing learning and professional development.

Professional Standards

• Uphold the NMC Code and Trust policies, maintaining your professional competence and mandatory training.

• Act as a positive role model, offering guidance and support across the team.

• Ensure safeguarding standards are met for adults and children.

Leadership & Development

• Coordinate care for a caseload of women, supporting ward management and contributing to audits, research, and service improvement.

• Take part in team meetings and help create a safe, welcoming, and efficient ward environment.

• Contribute to innovative practice, evidence-based improvements, and patient feedback initiatives.

Career Progression & Support

• Opportunities include specialist roles (Labour Ward Coordinator, PMA, Clinical Skills Midwife, Digital Midwife), management, and senior positions.

• Tailored induction and supernumerary period, annual mandatory training, and ongoing educational support.

• Access wellbeing resources including pastoral support, PMA network, and wellness apps.

We value our staff and provide a professional, supportive environment where you can grow your career while making a real difference to women and families every day.

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients. 

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

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 “We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.