Rotational Midwife

Job overview

Are you an experienced Band 6 Midwife who would like to be a part of our flexible and dynamic team in a proud and forward thinking Trust that enthusiastically embraces innovation? If so, we welcome your application!

We provide women centred care within a number of settings to enable them to achieve their desired birthing experience.

We have a fabulous co-located Midwifery Led Unit at St Michael’s Hospital and a Midwifery Led Unit at our Weston Hospital. Here, we provide exceptional care for low risk women. In addition, we have a several well established Community Midwifery Teams that support low risk women who choose to have a home birth.

Rotational Midwives have the opportunities to rotate to posts in the Ante/Postnatal Ward, Central Delivery Suite, Midwifery Led Units, Traditional Community, Continuity of Carer Teams and our Transitional Care Unit. There is also the opportunity to work within our Antenatal Clinic, Day Assessment Unit and Fetal Medicine Unit. We are the major tertiary Fetal Medicine Unit for the South West providing highly specialist care for women and their babies.

As a service, we are passionate about supporting midwives' ongoing professional development. We have an outstanding practice development team who will support you during your supernumerary period, provide a comprehensive orientation programme, and a practice development facilitator who will work one to one with you in practice to ensure a smooth transition to our unit.

Main duties of the job

• Be able to demonstrate leadership and management skills
• Be flexible with a caring attitude, rotating throughout the maternity departments and to be a part of the on-call service we provide.
• Have excellent and extended clinical skills
• Be able to develop clinical skills and participate in continuing their professional development.
• Have experience in solving problems and using initiative.
• Have the ability to take the lead when caring for women and their babies, identifying any deterioration from normal and escalating appropriately.
• Be able to communicate and work together in a multidisciplinary team.

As a unit we are proud to acknowledge the importance of personal development, and the support and guidance required in enabling self-confidence and belief to strive towards the next goal. We focus on providing the opportunity to gain appropriate experience to enable progression to band 7. We offer band 7 secondment posts within the unit, where you will feel supported and guided by familiar colleagues that you would have built a rapport with through your band 6 experience.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.