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Job summary

Main area
Midwife
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Bank
Hours
Flexible working - As and When
Job ref
391-3485-BANK-A
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Hampstead
Town
London
Salary
£27.18 Hourly Paid
Salary period
Hourly
Closing
16/05/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Bank Midwife Band 6

Band 6

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.  This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

Click here to view our video Welcome to the Royal Free


 

Job overview

To work as part of the Multi-professional team providing a high standard of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal midwifery care to women and their families within the integrated maternity service. 

To be part of the Bank Midwife team supporting excellence in midwifery care.

Main duties of the job

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust became a new enlarged organisation on 1 July 2014. We now consist of the Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital.

We are offering exciting opportunities for newly qualified and experienced midwives to join our team as a bank midwife. We provide maternity services across a large part of North and Central London. We also have services based across the community. Joining together has meant that we have been able to expand in many areas of midwifery. This includes having 3 consultant midwives, midwifery teams leading on complex psychosocial care; we have two alongside Birth Centres and one stand-alone at the Edgware Birth Centre. Our midwives are based either within the cross-site community teams, at the Royal Free Hospital or at the Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital and Edgware.

Working for our organisation

The post holder will offer World Class Care to service users, staff, colleagues, clients and patients alike so that everyone at the Royal Free can feel:

  • Welcome all of the time
  • Confident because we are clearly Communicating
  • Respected and cared for
  • Reassured that they are always in safe hands

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To work as part of the Multi-professional team providing a high standard of
antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal midwifery care to women and their families within the integrated maternity service. To rotate within all clinical areas within maternity services to support professional development and maintain safe standards of midwifery care in line with service provision.

Main duties –

  • Provide a high standard of midwifery care to mothers and babies during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period.
  • Take autonomous clinical decisions in an emergency to ensure safe outcomes for mother and baby
  • Able to work as an autonomous practitioner in all aspects of midwifery practice

Person specification

Values

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NMC Part 10 register or equivalent
  • Experience (placement or post grad) within both the wards and delivery suite areas
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of professional updating
  • Academic and/or professional/vocational training and development

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum introduction to IV cannulations, suturing, scrubbing in theatre, epidural top ups, resuscitation of new born
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience working as a midwife/Band 5 grade nurse.
  • Working in an environment where ‘normality in midwifery’ is the main focus (MLC) unit.
  • Previous experience working in a community setting.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Ability to evaluate midwifery care.
  • Ability to relate NMC Midwives Rules, Code of Practice, The Scope of Professional Practice, Standards for the Administration of Medicines
  • Able to use appropriate language according to circumstances
  • Legible, literate, grammatically ccurate
  • Able to work well within a team.
  • Ability to use own initiative
  • Ability to prioritise own workload
  • Ability to manage junior staff
  • Have knowledge of the Public Health Agenda
  • Ability to educate parents and students
  • Ability to undertake all midwifery duties within the relevant clinical area.
  • IT literate
  • knowledge of Clinical Governance
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of current NSF framework/healthy hospitals initiative

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • Ability to adapt to new working practices
  • Ability to remain calm under pressure
  • Ability to deal calmly and courteously with difficult people
  • Adaptable and flexible approach to working within the Unit.
  • Flexible working hours
Desirable criteria
  • Able to meet the practical requirements of the post. i.e. cross site shift patterns

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Nursing TimesApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident employerTimewise PartnerCare Quality Commission - Requires improvementEnei MemberArmed Forces Covenant

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
Adam Robinson
Job title
Temporary Staffing | Recruitment Services
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02078302065
Additional information

Temporary Staffing | Recruitment Services

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Free Hospital

PO Box 50, Civic Centre, Enfield, Middlesex, EN1 3XA
Tel: 02078302065
Internal extension: 23400

Or

Megan Woodman,  Matron

[email protected]

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Recruitment Support
Open Monday to Friday
08:30 am to 17:30pm
Telephone
01629 702338
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