Midwife

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for you to join our Maternity Department as a Band 5 rotational Midwife. The trust provides maternity services for the City of Leeds and beyond - an area with a widely diverse demographic and population.

We have a proven history of investing in further training and development for our staff. We support, nurture and guide them in reaching their full potential, expanding and increasing their skill sets, thereby enabling the provision of the very best possible care to our women and their families. Our developmental programmes/opportunities are widely recognised and highly regarded. As a trust, our vision is to be the best in specialist and integrated care and we want to be the best place to work. We strive to be patient centred, fair, collaborative, accountable and empowered. This is The Leeds Way.

Main duties of the job

1. Maintain a high standard of women-centred care in accordance with Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust guidelines and policies.
2. Act as a referral agent and co-ordinator of care provision.
3. Establish effective multi-agency collaboration across the primary/secondary interface to meet the needs of the patients.
4. Act as a role model for the development of clinical skills and knowledge within the department team.
5. Maintain a safe working environment.
6. Support the Senior Midwife in setting and monitoring standards and seek to continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care, including national standards.
7. Promote evidence-based practice.
8. Participate in the audit and evaluation of clinical practice in the interests of promoting quality care.
9. Provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of midwifery care for women and their babies, ensuring written records are kept to NMC standards.

About us

Leeds Teaching Hospital Maternity Services support the birth of approximately 9000 babies per year. We are a tertiary unit with the largest Fetal Medicine Unit in the North. We also have a Quaternary Paediatric and Cardiac Surgery unit, the largest Congenital Cardiac Service in the North of England, and we are specialists in Prematurity Prevention for Y& H.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Title: Midwife (Rotational)
Reports To: Senior Midwife (Sister)
Accountable To: Matron
Band: 5
Unit/Department: Maternity
Location: LGI/St James's

JOB PURPOSE

To provide midwifery care in whichever setting the woman or baby requires care. This will include hospital, health centres, children's centres, and women's homes. To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care in the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods. To carry out all relevant forms of care with minimal supervision.

To regularly take charge of the ward in the absence of the Senior Midwife (Sister). To participate in the in-service training and preceptorship/mentorship of junior staff, post-basic learners, and students.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent
• Registered Midwife

Desirable

• Recognised teaching/assessing qualification

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for post

Skills & behaviours

Essential

• Capable of lateral thinking.
• Good written and verbal skills.
• Ability to organise and prioritise own and others workload.
• Understanding of skills and knowledge required to lead and develop team members.
• IT skills.

Experience

Essential

• Midwifery training.
• Willing to undergo training as necessary.
• Knowledge of speciality.
• Current issues in healthcare.

Employer details

Employer name
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address
St. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF

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