Midwife

Job summary

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for you to join our Maternity Department as a Band 5 rotational Midwife. The trust provides maternity services for the City of Leeds and beyond - an area with a widely diverse demographic and population.

We have a proven history of investing in further training and development for our staff. We support, nurture and guide them in reaching their full potential, expanding and increasing their skill sets, thereby enabling the provision of the very best possible care to our women and their families. Our developmental programmes/opportunities are widely recognised and highly regarded. As a trust our vision is to be the best in specialist and integrated care and we want to be the best place to work. We strive to be patient centred, fair, collaborative, accountable and empowered. This is The Leeds Way.

For further information please do not hesitate to contact Julie Holmes or Cate Wetton - Midwifery Matrons on 0113 206 5169.

Main duties of the job

Maintain a high standard of women centred care in accordance with Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust guidelines and policies. Act as a referral agent and co-ordinator of care provision. Establishes effective multi-agency collaboration across the primary/secondary interface to meet the needs of the patients. Act as a role model for the development of clinical skills and knowledge within the department team. Maintain a safe working environment. Support the Senior Midwife in setting and monitoring standards and seek to continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care, including national standards. Promote evidence based practice. Participate in the audit and evaluation of clinical practice in the interests of promoting quality care. Provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of midwifery care for women and their babies, ensuring written records are kept to NMC standards.

Job responsibilities

Leeds Teaching Hospital Maternity Services support the birth of approximately 9000 babies per year. We are a tertiary unit with the largest Fetal Medicine Unit in the North. We also have a Quaternary Paediatric and Cardiac Surgery unit the largest Congenital Cardiac Service in the North of England and we are specialists in Prematurity Prevention for Y&H.

Our Vision and purpose.

We provide outstanding Maternity care. We put women and families at the centre of everything we do

Our Priorities

To be recognised as a leading provider of outstanding Women's healthcare.

To work collaboratively with our partners in local and regional networks, providing patient-centred care via effective integrated systems.

We prioritise the wellbeing of our teams and make sure they have the resources, training and encouragement they need to be excellent.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.