Newly Qualified Midwife (Rotational)

Job overview

The NCA are delighted to offer opportunities for Newly Qualified Midwives to join our friendly and supportive Maternity Team.   We offer an excellent preceptorship programmes which encompasses the full sphere of midwifery practice - these can include integrated MLC preceptorships with spoke days in inpatient services and preceptorships which include antenatal ward, labour ward, maternity triage and postnatal ward.      This post is only for student midwives who will qualify and anticipate gaining entry to the NMC register in/before September 2025.

Main duties of the job

The newly qualified midwife is responsible for the assessment, implementation and evaluation of clinical care for women, birthing people and babies on the maternity unit. As a newly qualified midwife, you will work in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team ensuring effective care is planned and delivered.

As a newly qualified midwife, you will be responsible for undertaking relevant further study as required for the post and complete preceptorship. You will be expected to maintain a high standard of professionalism to ensure that the highest standard of care is given to patients in their care.

Provide support and supervision to less experienced practitioners, midwives, nurses and students to the trust standards and competencies and to support colleagues in a multi-disciplinary team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered  Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.

The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website:  https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/