# Inpatient Rotational Midwife

**Company**: University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £47,951 to £56,863 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are offering excellent Band 6 Midwifery opportunities to join our service, and take your career forward within an outstanding Trust.

The post holder will commit to undertaking a rotation around the inpatients wards within the maternity unit. Options include Delivery Suite and obstetric theatre, High Dependency Unit, Birthing Centre which include 2 birthing pools, inpatient antenatal ward, triage unit, postnatal care unit with transitional care cots and antenatal clinic.

Main duties of the job:

- Work as a midwife and rotate across all areas of the maternity unit

- Assess care and health education needs of women and their babies

- Maintain accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care

- Develop leadership skills and experience in the management of the ward/department

- Participate in training programmes and teach and act as a facilitator/preceptor to midwifery or non-midwifery staff

Benefits:

- Excellent experience to maintain and develop clinical skills

- Strong commitment to staff education and commissioned links with City, Kings and Southbank Universities

- Masters scholarship scheme

About us: 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Registered midwife
- Educated to Degree Level
- Completed a 12-months preceptorship programme
- Up to date knowledge of professional nursing and midwifery issues
- Experience of teaching and mentoring more junior staff
- Familiarity with basic IT applications
- SSSA
- Able to work effectively within multi-disciplinary teams
- Able to meaningfully engage stakeholders
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Able to challenge clinical decisions in the best interest of patients
- Able to network professionally within the organisation as well as externally
- Highly professional role model
- Demonstrating awareness of maternity related clinical governance
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Formal verbal and written presentation skills
- Able to communicate sensitively and appropriately
- Organisational skills
- Decision making skills
- Able to manage time effectively
- Able to prioritise objectives and workload
- Committed to professional and personal development and always maintaining updated mandatory training.
- Willingness to clinically support the wider maternity unit to meet service needs as required
- Ability to work flexibly, Monday to Sunday, days, nights and bank holidays

### Nice to have
- Neonatal course of relevant experience
- Experience of undertaking research
- Speaks a second language fluently

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