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Job summary

Main area
Midwifery
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (various hours available)
Job ref
208-F1C590-24-1
Employer
Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
SGH/DPOW
Town
Scunthorpe/Grimsby
Salary
£28,407 - £34,581 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust logo

Newly Qualified Midwife

Band 5

 

 

Job overview

Suitable for 3rd year Student Midwives due to qualify in 2024.

Join us on our improvement journey in Northern Lincolnshire and Goole. This preceptorship position will offer the opportunity to consolidate your midwifery skills and knowledge as a rotational midwife in a forward looking service with staff that have the enthusiasm and passion to improve the care of our women and their families.

We have an exciting opportunity for newly registered midwives to join our experienced maternity workforce and contribute to making us the best that we can be.

We are looking for an individual who has the values of our trust Kindness, Courage, and Respect, at the heart of the care they provide. The successful candidate must be passionate, kind, considerate and above all uphold the standards of the NMC in all aspects of their profession.

Main duties of the job

Assesses, develops, implements and evaluates programmes of care in a range of environments, without supervision.

Once preceptorship period is complete, supports, supervises and teaches less experienced staff on the ward/team relevant clinical and non-clinical procedures and practices. 

Works autonomously within the department/team within Trust guidelines and sphere of professional practice.

 

Working for our organisation

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients. 

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.

 “We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated. To view a full job description and person specification please see attachments on this advert

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Registered Midwife eligible to be live on the register (including 3rd year students due to qualify)
  • • Degree in/working towards degree in Midwifery
Desirable criteria
  • • NIPT trained
  • • Supervisor and assessor trained SSSA or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Up to date mandatory training in fire, infection control, basic life support and moving and handling
Desirable criteria
  • • Ability to travel between care settings
  • • Experience of critiquing clinical evidence
  • • Clinical audit skills
  • • Experience of managing a team /area
  • • Complaints training
  • • Leadership training
  • • Training in the administration of blood

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoMenopause Friendly EmployerDisability confident employerDisability confident committedArmed Forces Covenant Bronze AwardNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jennifer Buckley
Job title
Pastoral, Recruitment & Retention Lead Midwife
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07732903315

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Recruitment Team
Recruitment Office
Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital
Scartho Road
Grimsby
UK
DN31 2QQ
Telephone
03033 306519
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