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.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
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.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
* Consolidation of practice as a Band 6 Midwife
Desirable criteria
* Extended clinical midwifery skills
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Registered Midwife with NMC pin
* Assessors & mentors qualification
Desirable criteria
* Assessing in Practice Level 2 or Teaching and Assessing in Practice Level 3 or equiv.
Personal Aptitudes
Essential criteria
* Motivation and enthusiasm
* Innovative
* Flexible approach to duties/shifts
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
* Effective communication and interpersonal skills
* Ability to work as part of a team
* Evidence of teaching skills
* Ability to work on own initiative
* Ability to prioritise care/client needs within research based approach
Desirable criteria
* Ability to support and act up for Band 7
* Mobile, with the ability to travel within and around Bristol (essential whilst working in Community)
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
· As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
· The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
· UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
· To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.
· If you require sponsorship for a visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check to ensure you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
· The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
· By applying for this post, you are agreeing to University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
· Please be aware of scams – unless specified above, we will only communicate with you via @recruit.trac.jobs or nhs.net e-mails and we will never ask you for any payments.
IMPORTANT:
Please note that if you apply for a position with this Trust, you may be contacted via Trac or via email. This includes invites for job interviews. We therefore recommend that you regularly check your Trac account and email accounts. We may also contact you by texting the mobile number, if provided, on the application form.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
As a guide interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.
When providing employment reference details, please provide correct work-related email addresses so references can be sought promptly when we are looking to progress your application. Your referee must all be known to you in a line manager or professional lead capacity.