Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 5/6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 319-6240225AZ
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
- Town
- Cramlington
- Salary
- £28,407 - £42,618 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Midwife/ Hospital-Community Midwife
Band 5/6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
We are seeking highly motivated and dynamic registered band 5 or 6 midwives to join our team who are passionate about delivering high quality care, whilst achieving the best patient experience.
There are opportunities to support all areas within our maternity services including acute services, community settings in North Tyneside and South East Northumberland, and stand alone MLU's; the innovative Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH) has a Birthing Centre, mixed antenatal/postnatal inpatient ward and a 24 hour Pregnancy Assessment Unit. The Birthing Centre offers women low risk midwifery care with state of the art facilities including waterbirth pools, alongside women who require Obstetric care with associated risk factors. We also have 3 stand-alone midwifery led units offering continuity pathways of care.
We offer a comprehensive training package as well as having strong links with local universities and take great pride in the excellent preceptorship package of which we offer to our newly qualified midwives.
For band 5 applicants, this post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.
Main duties of the job
- As part of the Midwifery profession, the successful candidates must hold a valid registration/revalidation.
- You should be able to demonstrate excellent communication/interpersonal skills, compassion, flexibility and willingness to develop new skills.
- Successful candidates are expected to participate in Trust statutory/mandatory training on a yearly basis.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people great choice and control over their care and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient and staff experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To assume responsibility for the devolved management of a ward/unit/caseload including the assessment of care needs, the implementation of evidence based programme of care.
- To supervise, support and educate junior members of the team.
- To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Midwives Rules and Standards.
- To be responsible for all midwifery care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
- To participate in on-call hospital/community rota.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 1st Level live NMC Registered Midwife
- Registered mentor. Mentorship Qualification or relevant equivalent qualification. (essential requirement or must be gained within 12 months of appointment)
- Diploma or degree or equivalent relevant experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Aurora Hamilton
- Job title
- Lead Professional Midwifery Advocate
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 6072200
- Additional information
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