Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-E-247455
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/12/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/01/2025
Employer heading
Midwife - Fetal Medicine
Band 6
Job overview
We have a wonderful opening for a midwife to join the fetal medicine team. If you feel are ready to specialise and develop your knowledge in genomic medicine and work in an area at the leading edge of midwifery then this could be just the opportunity you have been waiting for.
We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Midwife to join our multidisciplinary team. We are not expecting you to know all about fetal medicine but we are looking for genuine interest with commitment to learn and up skill with the opportunity to develop. With training you will provide specialist care within the Fetal Medicine team ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient delivery of services to women and families accessing our services.
You will perfect your counselling skills to inform women, allowing them to make informed choices for both FASP screening and further interventions.
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated midwife to gain experience in a busy tertiary Fetal Medicine Unit at a leading teaching hospital. As a specialist midwife dealing with complicated fetal issues, you will work alongside the MDT and liaise with referring hospitals within East Anglia and beyond. You will become a source of specialist knowledge and expertise, and gain the ability to communicate often-complex results and information to women, birthing people and their families.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties and responsibilities :
Provide specialist support and counselling to women considering antenatal screening and diagnostic testing
Manage and coordinate care for high-risk pregnancies, working closely with the fetal medicine consultants, neonatology screening team, and other relevant departments.
Develop and maintain a working knowledge of antenatal and newborn screening policies and guidelines.
Act as a key liaison between maternity teams, laboratory services, and referring hospitals, and specialist fetal medicine providers.
Ensure accurate documentation and monitoring of the fetal medicine patient journey using IT systems and databases.
Promote an open, honest, and transparent culture within the team.
About Us: The Rosie is committed to providing high-quality, compassionate care to our patients at every point of contact. We offer a supportive and progressive environment where staff can thrive and achieve their career aspirations.
A comprehensive induction and orientation program.
Opportunities for ongoing professional development and career progression.
Working for our organisation
Come Nurse with us…
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.Â
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
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A welcome subsidy of £1000 is available to all Band 5 and Band 6 Nurses, Midwives, ODPs and Radiographers and Band 5 Orthoptists taking up substantive employment with the Trust.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 29 December 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 7 January 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.Â
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Up to date professional portfolio, demonstrating on-going professional development
Desirable criteria
- Diploma /Degree or equivalent in Midwifery
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate a working knowledge of midwifery in all areas of the service with recent working within the community setting
Desirable criteria
- To have cared for or assisted women who have suffered a fetal loss due to IUD, SB, MTOP linked to fetal abnormalities.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Aware of current research and its impact on evidence base case
- Knowledge of NMC Midwives Rules and Standards
- Knowledge of current reports/guidelines relating to Maternity Care and their implication
Desirable criteria
- Involvement in participating in the production of evidence based polices
- Awareness of the role of ARC, SANDS and other support agencies.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to carry out the full range of midwifery skills in all clinical areas
- Developed interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Able to support others and mentor in the learning environment.
- To display interest and commitment to the complex issues linked to fetal medicine.
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
- Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
- To rotate to all areas on both day and night shifts
- Support and develop midwifery led care
- Ability to travel between Trust and community services
- Support and develop midwifery led care
- To be willing to undertake mentoring and mentor module
- Relevant to job banding and as required by your Line Manger
Desirable criteria
- Able to act up for Line Manager/ Team Leader
- Confident and motivated
- Supportive within a team framework
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Fleur Murray-Gilbertson
- Job title
- Lead Senior Midwife Fetal Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 216185
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