Inpatient Rotational Midwife

Job overview

We are offering excellent Band 6 Midwifery opportunities to join our service, and take your career forward within an outstanding Trust. This is an exciting chance to join one of the largest and most successful Foundation Trusts in the UK with an international reputation and a tradition of innovation.

Your career development is our concern, and we offer excellent experience to maintain and develop your clinical skills, we are committed to education and research, and provide our support to develop your knowledge and clinical expertise. We have a strong commitment to staff education and have commissioned links with City, Kings and Southbank Universities, and promote a masters scholarship scheme.

The post holder will commit to undertaking a rotation around the inpatients wards within the maternity unit. Options include Delivery Suite and obstetric theatre, High Dependency Unit, Birthing Centre which include 2 birthing pools, inpatient antenatal ward, triage unit, postnatal care unit with transitional care cots and antenatal clinic. There are opportunities to work within community-based services, Fetal Medicine Unit as well as an array of specialists areas.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will work as a midwife and will rotate across all areas of the maternity unit.
• To work according to the NMC Code and relevant professional guidelines as a midwife with facilitation for a defined group of women and their babies with minimal supervision in the Maternity Care setting.
• The assessment of care and health education needs of women and their babies
• To maintain accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluation programmes of care within the necessary framework
• To develop leadership skills and experience in the management of the ward/department.
• To promote and participate in the implementation of the UCLH Nursing Midwifery strategy:
• Reviewing midwifery practice and implementing appropriate changes based on research/best practice.
• Developing and implementing Audit, Quality and Risk Management initiatives.
• To participate in training programmes as appropriate and to teach and act as a facilitator/preceptor to midwifery or non-midwifery staff.
• To promote and maintain effective communication.
• Create a supportive blame-free environment for staff and women

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description. Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff* * UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row. UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working. To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?

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.