Newly Qualified Rotational Midwife

Job overview

**Please note: At present we are not looking to recruit international candidates without complete NMC registration due to the time scales involved.**

Job Title: Integrated Midwife

Hours per week: Full Time & Part Time roles are available (shift work)

Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent

Salary: £29,970 - £36483, per annum pro rata

Closing Date: 5th January 2025

Interview Date: TBC

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

#JoinTeamEliot

Clinical Practice – The newly qualified midwife will be expected to fulfil the following criteria with support from preceptor and experienced midwives. Newly qualified midwife, whilst being accountable for their own clinical practices (NMC) will participate in the Midwifery Preceptorship programme and complete within 18 months.

Main duties of the job

Come and join our friendly, professional, and caring team at the George Eliot Maternity Unit. We would like to hear from student midwives and Band 5 midwives who want to be part of the exciting future plans within Maternity. The successful post holder will provide ante-natal, post-natal and intrapartum care to women with low and high-risk pregnancies. They will rotate through all areas of the services as required including Continuity of Carer and Community and will be supported by the newly appointed midwifery retention support midwife. You will also have access to the lead Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) and a team of PMAs for additional support if/when required.

We are a unit who provide personalised care for women, babies and their families ensuring a first class service and experience.  The benefits include:

• Dynamic and supportive management team
• Forward thinking in response to new national initiatives, including the saving babies lives care bundle
• Provision of preceptorship for newly qualified members of the team
• Named professional midwifery advocate
• On-going professional development and support
• Rotation and integration within all areas of the service

If you would like to be part of this successful, flexible, friendly team, whether you are a newly qualified or an experienced band 5 midwife we would like to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will provide high quality integrated midwifery care in both hospital and community settings as required for mothers, babies and their families throughout pregnancy, labour, the postnatal period, this may be part of an integrated continuity of carer team as required by service needs.

• Act as the woman’s advocate in promoting, and delivering the highest standard of midwifery care, ensuring all fundamentals of care are addressed, and current, relevant policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Using evidence-based practice, assess the woman’s physical, psychological and spiritual needs, plan, implement and evaluate midwifery care involving the woman and her family, as appropriate.
• Write reports, record observations and maintain plans of care, including electronic data storage; and other appropriate records, accurately, legibly, concisely and contemporaneously.
• Monitor the woman’s condition, interpret observations and identify deviations from normal. Report and refer to relevant health professionals, carrying out midwifery interventions as needed.
• Keep the woman and her family informed, when appropriate maintaining client confidentiality.
• Ensure midwifery care is flexible to meet the diverse needs of women.
• Comply with Trust policy for management and administration of medicines.
• Undertake clinical skills, as per the trust’s Health Board Policy, relevant to role and the woman’s care.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.