Job overview
Are you enthusiastic about personalised, woman centred care?
Are you passionate about delivering high quality care?
Do you have a positive and flexible approach to work?
Are you interested in working in a friendly and supportive environment?
Then South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the Trust for you! We are offering an exciting opportunity for a motivated, enthusiastic and inspirational band 5 or band 6 midwife, to join our dynamic Midwifery team.
We are a dynamic and diverse Trust, with a friendly and supportive atmosphere and our team delivers of over 5500 births a year between our two hospitals; The James Cook University Hospital and the Friarage Midwifery-led unit.
Main duties of the job
As a Newly Registered Midwife, we offer an innovative, robust, comprehensive 12-month preceptorship programme, designed to support your transition and to successfully achieve the required competencies to progress to a confident band 6.
We provide an in-depth induction programme and continuous support throughout with clinical and practical skills, training, and pastoral care with full support from our dedicated Preceptorship Lead Midwife.
You will have the opportunity to rotate to all maternity areas in our Trust, including community, to maximise your professional development and gain relevant experience.
If you are an experienced band 6 midwife, we offer a bespoke training induction to smooth your transition into our team and we welcome your fresh energy, experience and passion to drive our service forward. You will have the opportunity to utilise your well-honed skills to provide antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care for women and their families in our area.
This vacancy will close once sufficient applications have been received.
Working for our organisation
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:
Your Leadership Impact
Leading your Team to Success
Leading Into the Future
Service Improvement for Beginners
Developing your Service Improvement Skills
Lean Practitioner
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
Explore leadership within the NHS
Promote Trust values and behaviours
Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
1. NMC registered midwife
Experience
Essential criteria
2. Completion of midwifery qualification working across all areas of maternity.
3. To identify and utilise appropriate opportunities within the clinical area in order to develop the skills required to fulfil own professional and personal development.
4. Develop and maintain effective working relationships.
5. To fulfil the NMC framework appropriate to the role of the midwife.
6. To maintain knowledge and work within the midwives code of practice and midwives rules.
7. To ensure knowledge updated and maintained as follows: - PREP requirements. Local and national policy development.
8. All aspects of corporate and obstetric mandatory training (as outlined in the training record).
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
9. To hold and continually enhance effective communication skills in order to work efficiently within a multidisciplinary team.
10. To maintain clinical skills to provide high quality midwifery care in a variety of settings.
11. To develop skills and experience with the promotion, support and assistance of infant feeding.
12. To utilise their professional judgement to assess problems/conditions and needs to plan care for women and babies
13. To develop awareness and skills in clinical audit systems, leading to improvements in care for women, babies and their families.
14. To develop skills and competence to participate in the teaching and mentorship of learners within the clinical area.
15. To continually develop the skills to safely utilise equipment for the provision of maternity care.
Disclosure and Barring Checks (DBS)
It is now the policy of South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who are new to the Trust who require DBS clearance for the post they have been offered, are required to pay the cost of their DBS. The method of payment for this is via salary deduction from your first month's pay.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. We welcome applications from the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Network; LGBT+ Network; Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions Network, Faith Network, Childless not by Choice Network and the Menopause Support Group.
As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you.
If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at
Right to Work in the UK
The Trust welcomes applications from all candidates who meet the criteria for the role. Please note that from January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - (.
Please provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Your current immigration status will not be considered as part of the shortlisting or interview process.
Please note that not everyone needs a Skilled Worker visa. If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead.
We are able to offer sponsorship for a Health and Care Worker or Skilled Worker visa, subject to candidate and position eligibility. Please review the job eligibility guidance for skilled workers here: Skilled Worker visa: Your job - ( and for the Health and Care Worker visa here: Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - (
Please note: if the job you are applying for does not meet the eligibility criteria above, we will be unable to offer you sponsorship and you will need to explore whether you may be eligible to apply for an alternative immigration route which will secure your right to work in the UK before you apply. If you are in the UK already on a visa, please ensure you have no restrictions that would prevent you from taking this post.
The Trust encourages and supports all applicants to be fully vaccinated against both COVID19 and influenza.
Please be aware, there are occasions where some vacancies may close prior to the closing date advertised. This will only happen where sufficient applications are received AND will be made evident on the job advert.
Please note if you are successfully shortlisted, we will contact you via the email address that you have applied from so please ensure you check your emails regularly.
Existing employees of South Tees NHS Foundation Trust currently on the Redeployment Register, who meet the essential criteria for this post, will be shortlisted and interviewed prior to all other applicants.