Rotational Midwife

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for dynamic experienced midwives to join the established team of midwives at Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust.

The applicants should have experience in all aspects of midwifery care and have the ability to work with women in antenatal care, during labour and postnatally. You would be responsible for the provision of high quality, effective midwifery care on a day to day basis, working within all areas of the maternity unit.

The post holder must be flexible, innovative and resourceful with excellent organisational skills, a team player with high personal standards of care.

All Midwives new to Mid Cheshire will be supported with supernumerary time in each clinical area.

Please get in touch if this opportunity is for you.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be employed as a rotational midwife and work throughout all clinical areas of maternity services. Rotations through inpatient areas will include labour ward, maternity theatres, induction of labour and maternity triage, midwifery led unit and maternity inpatient ward.

There will also be an  opportunity to Rotate to the Maternity Outpatients Department  and  Community Midwifery team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A practicing health care professional who is able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate evidence based care.

The post holder will carry out a range of clinical skills in midwifery practice within the team, whilst working collaboratively and co-operatively with others to give individualised, holistic care to meet the needs of women and their families.  The midwife will have decision-making autonomy within guidelines and professional codes of practice, and will participate in the leadership, education, development and supervision of the clinical team.