Job summary
Employer heading
Midwife
Band 6
Job overview
We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals like yourself, to join our fantastic and supportive expanding team of Midwives at both our hospital and community at Wexham Park Hospital.
Frimley Health is a great place to work and progress your career in the Midwifery profession. We are the 4th largest trust to deliver maternity services in England,聽 with a dedicated Head of Midwifery at both sites, a team of Matrons and Practice Development team to not only support you,聽 but enable our Midwives, Support Workers to deliver high quality care to all our women and progress the National Maternity Transformation Agenda.
Main duties of the job
- To acknowledge professional accountability by demonstrating and ensuring high standards of practice.
- To be responsible for the assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of care during the antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum periods.
- To facilitate birth either in the hospital or home setting.
- To be the lead professional and be responsible in providing midwife-led care to low risk women.
- To be aware of the need for changes in professional practice, whilst acting as a resource for women, their families and also colleagues. In conjunction with the Practice Development Team analysing personal training needs and making changes to clinical practice where appropriate.
- To participate in the setting, implementing and monitoring of clinical standards.
- To participate in the achievement and maintenance of high standards of service using the task of clinical audit, consumer satisfaction surveys to their full effect.
- To record information accurately, and complete documentation in compliance with the NMC Code.
- To enter information accurately onto the maternity information system.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.聽
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Midwifery
Desirable criteria
- PSPA / SLIP
Training
Essential criteria
- Completed preceptorship
Desirable criteria
- BFI trained
Experience
Essential criteria
- Rotational experience across maternity (UK)
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
- Karin Vandewalle
- Job title
- Recruitment & Retention Midwife
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 615 6601
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