JOB TITLE: Bank Registered Midwife
LOCATION: Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation trust
DIRECTORATE: Temporary Staffing
DEPARTMENT: Temporary Staffing
GRADE: Band 6
RESPONSIBLE TO: Temporary Staffing Manager
ACCOUNTABLE TO: Head of Temporary Staffing
As a band 6 midwife you will be expected to work in collaboration with other multidisciplinary professionals enhancing and promoting the health and wellbeing of mothers and neonates in line with local and national standards relating to maternity care and referrals as appropriate. You will be required to work in all areas of the service including obstetric theatre and the community as necessary and work as part of a Continuity of Care Team as per the national maternity plan. You may also be required to take part in an on-call Rota should the service require this. As a midwife you will be committed to achieving the Trust’s targets regarding the Government’s public health agenda.
To provide high quality, safe, evidence based, holistic midwifery care to women in all maternity care settings including antenatal care, labour and birth, and postnatal care settings as well as parent education across the MSE. To provide continuity of care and to work in partnership with the women, to provide women centered, personalised midwifery care.
With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities.
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
Patients will experience improved care as well as fewer delays and cancellations. We are able to provide more once-in-a-lifetime specialist care region-wide. With our new trust size will come more opportunities for development, research, networking and innovation.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
• To enable woman to remain the focus of care and as her advocate to encourage her to participate in her care plans based on good communication and evidence – based information.
• Assess, plan and deliver total midwifery care for a caseload of women within the community, prioritising workload and management of time.
• To be competent to work within a team to deliver care based on the needs of women to maintain
• To identify, plan and implement care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team in relation to families with complex psycho-social
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This advert closes on Monday 30 Jun 2025