Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (permanent positions will become available as soon as vacancies arise in the lead up to the move to The Royal Bournemouth Hospital)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 153-SP03900
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Marys Maternity Hospital
- Town
- Poole
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 pa/pr
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Midwife Band 6
Band 6
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
We are looking for passionate and motivated midwives to join our forward-thinking, energetic midwifery team. Our maternity services across Poole and Bournemouth have created new opportunities and are due to relocate to a new purpose built maternity unit in 2025, this is a great time to join and be part of our new team. We are looking to recruit Band 6 midwives across the following areas:
- Antenatal
- Community
- Labour and Birth care
- Maternity triage
- Postnatal
Maternity Services at UHD are located in the community in Poole and Bournemouth and on a self-contained site currently at the St Mary’s Maternity Hospital, across the road from the main Poole Hospital site moving to the ‘BEACH’ building in 2025.
This role requires NMC Registration
Base: Bournemouth/ Poole Hospital based location moving solely to Royal Bournemouth Hospital 2025 with hubs for community staff.
This vacancy is advertised as fixed time at present with the likelihood of this becoming permanent in the lead up to the move to Bournemouth as we are aware that staff will move in the lead to our move and also with the natural changes in staff circumstances through promotion and maternity leave etc.
Main duties of the job
The Maternity department is committed to education and development. We invest in an education team which supports learning and practice development across the department. Opportunities currently in place are as follows:
- Access to a Practice Development Midwife and Clinical Practice Facilitator
- Live Team Skills Drills
- Access recognised post-registration qualifications in partnership with Bournemouth University
- E-learning programmes
- Post registration opportunities to study at degree, Masters and PhD level
- Potential to progress through the career structure from Midwife Practitioner to Midwife Team Leader, Consultant Midwife and Matron.
As a band 6 midwife it is expected that you will be clinically competent and will take responsibility as a sign off mentor for student midwives. You will work a shift pattern that includes unsocial hours and provides a 24/7, 365 day a year service. We can offer you the opportunity to take on link roles within infection control / risk management / clinical skills trainer/ safeguarding as required by the service. We are responsive to national agendas and continuously review and develop our services often leading to opportunities to progress your career.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Dorset encourages collaborative working and positive relationships with the maternity and neonatal voices partnership, adapting the service based upon comments from patient experience. Encouraging completion of the friends and family feedback with an average response rate of 90% rating our service either good/very good.
The maternity service obtain regular feedback from staff that improves the service, our latest SCORE (Safety, Communication, Operational, Reliability and Engagement) survey with one of the highest response rates in the country reported that the majority of staff do not wish to leave the organisation and the people from different disciplines/backgrounds work together as a well co-ordinated team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To ensure that midwifery practice is in keeping with current research by assisting in the development of an evidence based culture and implementation of research and evidence based protocols and guidelines.
- To assist in the maintenance, monitoring and evaluation of standards of care within the midwifery team and to assist in the implementation of recommendations from Government or Professional bodies and Patient Charter Standards in relation to maternity care.
- To assist in the development of Health and Safety standards and the monitoring of these standards, ensuring that Trust policies are adhered to and equipment is used correctly and in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act.
- To assist and support the continual review, development and improvement of maternity services.
- When determining a pathway of care, taking a holistic history relating to the women/birth persons pregnancy, analysing all information and determining the most appropriate pathway of care.
- To participate in the integrated midwifery model working within both community and all areas of the acute setting working shifts, including day and night shifts providing a 24-hour, 365-day service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Bachelors (BSc) Degree in Midwifery or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Practice assessor or prepared to work towards
- Foundation in patient experience course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate a working knowledge of midwifery in all areas of the service including working in the community
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing complaints or feedback
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential criteria
- Up to date core skills and training
- Completed Preceptorship Program
- Keyboard Skills and an ability to use IT equipment and associated maternity database
- Competent and able to provide midwifery care in all areas
- Manual dexterity
- Able to mentor students
- Articulate with good communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Collecting/Generating Data
- Report writing
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Aware of current research and it impact on evidence based care
- Knowledge of Midwives NMC Code of Conduct
- Knowledge of current/emerging evidence and research and guidelines relating to maternity care
Other requirements specific to the role
Essential criteria
- Access to transport in the case of community working
- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- The ability to communicate with women/birthing people in an empathic manner
- Able to participate in on-call rotas
Desirable criteria
- Ability to deputise in the absence of the team manager
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Compassionate and kind
- Supportive of quality, diversity and inclusion
- Ability to adapt and change according to service requirements
- Developed interpersonal and communication skills
- Can demonstrate an enthusiastic, approachable and friendly manner
- Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing effectively
- Ability to demonstrate enthusiasm towards teaching and sharing knowledge
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
- Gemma Short
- Job title
- Recruitment and Retention Midwife
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07467 446649
- Additional information
Applications with only be considered through NHS jobs/TRAC
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