Job overview
A wonderful opportunity has arisen for an experienced Midwife to come and join our established Integrated Community Midwifery Team at The Royal London Hospital.
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We are looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate and motivated individual who provides community midwifery care for women and their families, living in all areas of Tower Hamlets. You will be part of a supportive and experienced team providing antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care. This consists of community based antenatal and postnatal clinics, home visits and support to the low-risk birth centre. Working as an integrated community midwife means you can still enjoy intrapartum aspects of care and are pleased to offer as part of this role integrated shifts monthly, on the Lotus Birth Centre. These are allocated shifts as part of your contracted hours. In addition, there are on call duties to support the home birth team providing home birth.
The Royal London Hospital is part of Barts Health NHS Trust, which has a worldwide reputation for innovation in the care of expectant mothers and their families. As the largest trust in the UK we provide exceptional care for families.
Main duties of the job
To provide high quality, evidence based holistic midwifery care to women resident in Tower Hamlets. To provide care to women from antenatal, intrapartum and beyond. The midwife will be required to work as part of a team, providing community based care and support to the Low Risk Birth Centre and participate in the on-call rota to facilitate the women’s desired place of birth.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Band Midwife with UK professional Registration who has completed their preceptorship
Desirable criteria
2. Practice Supervisor/ Assessor
3. Post registration qualifications or MSc
Experience
Essential criteria
4. Has worked in a variety of settings using all midwifery skills
5. Ability to participate in health promotion activities to include antenatal classes/clinics
6. Can show a non-judgemental approach to patient care
7. Able to use both Adult and Neonatal resuscitation skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
8. Can demonstrate a knowledge of current and emerging health care issues
9. Ability to work with others to produce detail plan to protect the health of Mother and Unborn child
10. Effectively carries out tasks related to evaluating services when asked
11. Ability to work within set timeframes working to priorities and deadlines
12. The ability to communicate with patients in an empathetic manner regarding their treatment and procedures.
13. Able to use basic Adult and neonatal resuscitation skills
Desirable criteria
14. Ability to monitor the quality of own work
15. Ability to use and maintain resources efficiently and effectively and encourage others to do so
16. Experience of Equal Opportunity policies and procedures