Midwife

We are offering excellent Band 6 Midwifery opportunities to join our service, and take your career forward within an outstanding Trust. This is an exciting chance to join one of the largest and most successful Foundation Trusts in the UK with an international reputation and a tradition of innovation.

Your career development is our concern, and we offer excellent experience to maintain and develop your clinical skills. We are committed to education and research and provide our support to develop your knowledge and clinical expertise. We have a strong commitment to staff education and have commissioned links with City, Kings and Southbank Universities, and can offer an accelerated career pathway for suitable candidates.

The post holder will undertake a 6 monthly rotation between two clinical areas of choice within the maternity unit. Options include Delivery Suite and obstetric theatre, High Dependency Unit, Birthing Centre which includes 2 birthing pools, inpatient antenatal ward, triage unit, postnatal care unit with transitional care cots and antenatal clinic. There are opportunities to work within community-based services, Fetal Medicine Unit as well as an array of specialists areas.

• The post holder will work as a midwife and will rotate across all areas of the maternity unit.
• To work according to the NMC Code and relevant professional guidelines as a midwife with facilitation for a defined group of women and their babies with minimal supervision in the Maternity Care setting.
• The assessment of care and health education needs of women and their babies.
• To maintain accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care within the necessary framework.
• To develop leadership skills and experience in the management of the ward/department.
• To promote and participate in the implementation of the UCLH Nursing Midwifery strategy.
• Reviewing midwifery practice and implementing appropriate changes based on research/best practice.
• Developing and implementing Audit, Quality and Risk Management initiatives.
• To participate in training programmes as appropriate and to teach and act as a facilitator/preceptor to midwifery or non-midwifery staff.
• To promote and maintain effective communication.
• Create a supportive blame-free environment for staff and women.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street.

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specializes in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world-class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Chloe Wallace Job title: Recruitment and Retention Lead Email address: chlorice.wallace@nhs.net