Meridian Team Midwife

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 6 Hospital based Meridian Midwife. We are looking for a confident, enthusiastic, dynamic and motivated midwives to join our team, providing safe, individually focused care to birthing people in our hospital setting.

You should have excellent communication, organisational and time management skills with a positive approach to change. You must also be an effective team worker. The post will involve rotation between the antenatal/postnatal ward and labour ward.

You will need to be flexible as you will be required to work shifts including weekends, bank holidays and nights, and occasional rotation to other clinical areas within maternity to meet the needs of the service. Flexible working may be considered

Main duties of the job

• To work within the maternity unit to assess the full range of care needs and develop, implement and evaluate safe care for low and high-risk birthing people and their families
• Work autonomously within guidelines of professional practice
• Act as a mentor for junior midwives, students and other members of the multi-professional tea
• Promote equality, diversity and rights
• Provide constructive feedback and support to enable junior midwives to develop increased clinical skills and ability
• Prioritise own time to ensure safe care is given to birthing people and families
• Ensure privacy and dignity of birthing people and their babies is maintained
• Ensure the health and social setting is responsive to the individual needs of birth people, particularly those who are disadvantaged

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To work within the maternity unit to assess the full range of care needs and develop, implement and evaluate safe care for low and high-risk people and their families
• Work autonomously within guidelines of professional practice
• Act as a mentor for junior midwives, students and other members of the multi-professional tea
• Promote equality, diversity and rights
• Provide constructive feedback and support to enable junior midwives to develop increased clinical skills and ability
• Prioritise own time to ensure safe care is given to women and families
• Ensure privacy and dignity of people and their babies is maintained
• Ensure the health and social setting is responsive to the individual needs of women, particularly those who are disadvantaged
• Advocate and support the rights of individual people to make informed choices about their care
• Provide appropriate health surveillance, health promotion and informed choice with antenatal screening, referring to consultant team as required

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

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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.