Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 6 (Annex 21 Contract)
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 151-HW-22
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £33,471 Per annum (pro rata) inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/05/2024
Employer heading
Newly Qualified Midwife
Band 6 (Annex 21 Contract)
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for Newly Qualified Midwives to join our dedicated midwifery workforce team at Wexham Park Hospital.
As a Newly Qualified Midwife, you will be offered a comprehensive preceptorship programme, ensuring you are supported while gaining experience in all maternity areas.
This advertisement is suitable for you if you are expecting to qualify in September 2024.
Main duties of the job
I am Emma Luhr, Director of Midwifery at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, and we are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals like yourself, to join our fantastic and supportive expanding team of Midwives 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, with a dedicated Head of Midwifery at both sites, a team of Matrons and Practice Development team to not only support you, but enable our Midwives, to deliver high quality care to all our women and progress the National Maternity Transformation Agenda.
Working for our organisation
Now is a great time to join Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust! Maternity's overall "Good" CQC rating remained unchanged after our the last CQC inspection in May 2023.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- 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 (EPIC).
Person specification
Training
Essential criteria
- BSc in Midwifery
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in hospital and community (UK)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Additional information
Please do not hesitate to get in contact with any queries you have or for an informal tour around the unit.
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