Preceptorship Midwife

Job overview

Band 5: £32,073 pro rata, per annum

Full-Time (37.5 hours per week)

Permanent Position

We are recruiting a Preceptorship midwife who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our women, birthing people and families receive high quality and compassionate care in co-production with our service users and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey.

Each year we help approximately 1000 families prepare for their journey into parenthood. By joining our trust, you will get a unique opportunity to provide care by working across all areas of the service.

Our labour ward has five delivery rooms including one with a birthing pool, as well as a dedicated maternity only theatre. Midwives work within an integrated model and are encouraged to follow women and birthing people from the antenatal ward to the labour ward through to the postnatal ward.

You will need to be motivated, and committed to delivering high quality evidenced based care, and open to embrace positive change and transformation to meet the changing needs of the community we serve.

Main duties of the job

As a newly qualified midwife you will be supported by our Recruitment and Retention midwives along with our team of clinical leads and practice development midwives. You will undertake a robust preceptorship programme which encompasses both clinical and pastoral support, with dedicated time to attend additional teaching and development days. Following an extended supernumerary period, you will be supported to develop skills and competencies in all areas of midwifery as you complete the preceptorship programme and prepare for transition to band 6 midwife.

If you are interested in joining our team and share in our vision to provide safe, high quality seamless services delivered with courtesy and respect; we would like to hear from you.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

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.