Midwife - Maternity Assessment Suite

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a passionate midwife who is as passionate as we are about providing the best service possible? It goes without saying that you will demonstrate a caring and compassionate nature, attention to detail, and enjoy working in a busy environment.

We currently have both permanent and secondment opportunities for an experienced midwife to join our existing Maternity Assessment Suite team.

You will have a reassuring style that inspires confidence and promotes our range of services to the families you are supporting.

You will be an excellent communicator, who is also great at listening to women and their families, helping them to achieve a high quality, positive and safe experience through the development of personalised care plans.

Please note: Appropriate UK NMC Registration is a requirement for this role and international candidates who only hold PRN need not to apply.

Main duties of the job

You will work collaboratively with the Maternity Assessment Suite midwives and the wider multidisciplinary team to provide efficient and safe care to women and families using the triage service.

Women can access the service from sixteen weeks gestation up until four weeks following birth. Around 800 women attend each month with a variety of health concerns relating to themselves or their unborn baby.

Maternity Assessment Suite is a fast-paced, acute environment requiring autonomous practice and effective team working. It requires prompt decision-making skills and appropriate and timely escalation when necessary to ensure safe care provision.

About us

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our service users. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area and give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire and Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely makes a difference to support our patients and staff, ensuring we keep thriving and delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet great people, and do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about interacting with people from all different roles to build skills and enhance your career path.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold, and help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care, which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Job responsibilities

The Maternity Assessment Suite is a growing service provided for women and families throughout pregnancy and the postnatal period.

Duties to include, but not be limited to:

• Assist and support the lead midwife in the safe, effective management of the area including management of personnel, facilities, and the associated systems and processes.
• Act as a role model, presenting a positive image of self, team, and the organisation.
• Be responsible for the delivery and coordination of care, through appropriate professional practice, delegation, and supervision of duties carried out by less experienced staff.
• Ensure a high standard of Midwifery care is delivered by self and others based on assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care to meet patients' needs in accordance with agreed local and national standards and evidence-based guidelines.
• Set, monitor, and maintain standards of care to improve the patient experience and outcome of care.
• Proactively manage risk and maintain patient safety, conforming to health, safety, and security legislation, policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Communicate all relevant information to the multidisciplinary team internally and with external organisations as required, to ensure seamless care.
• Promote provision of education and health promotion.
• Promote equality in care and practice by recognising, respecting, and meeting the needs and choices of individuals.

To find out more about the role please contact Marie Ryan, Matron for Complex Midwifery Care: Marie.Ryan@lthtr.nhs.uk

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

• Appropriate NMC Registration.
• NMC recognised Mentorship qualification or willingness to work towards, following 18 months commencement in post.
• Evidence of continuing education or development.
• Degree.

Knowledge & Experience

• Willing to expand clinical role e.g. IV additives, venepuncture and Cannulation, Perineal suturing.
• Awareness of changes within Midwifery practice.
• Able to manage/treat obstetric emergencies in hospital/birth unit and community setting.
• Knowledge of Clinical Governance and the relevance to practice.
• Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures.
• Maintains own reflective practice.
• Demonstrates effective listening and communication skills.
• Confident in teaching and assessing student midwives, midwives, and doctors.
• Evidence clinical competence in area of speciality.
• Knowledge of Leadership and management.
• Knowledge of Research and Development.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per Annum Pro Rata