# Close Relative Marriage Midwife

**Company**: Barts Health NHS Trust
**Location**: Plaistow
**Job type**: Fixed term
**Salary**: £45953.00 to £54254.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Close Relative Marriage Midwife will work as part of a dynamic team to deliver high-quality care by supporting managers and staff across the maternity service.

The Close Relative Marriage Midwife will proactively work with women from Pakistani and other ethnic groups to encourage a greater level of genetic testing/awareness/literacy among families where consanguineous related genetic disorders are present and improve access to genetic services for families thereby enable informed reproductive decision-making.

**Main duties of the job**

- Ensure that provision of genetic information is available to all women practicing close relative marriage with a family history of a genetic disorder to enable empowered and timely decision making.

- Ensure timely referrals to the genetic service to ensure women have the opportunity to understand their risks and the options available to them in a pregnancy.

- Empower women to make informed choices in a culturally sensitive way.

- Initiate sensitive, appropriate conversations with families affected with autosomal recessive disorders linked to close relative marriage.

- Establish the role within the midwifery team and be a point of contact and/or referral for other midwives.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £45,953 to £54,254 per annum

- Part-time, fixed-term contract for 5 months

**Person Specification**

- Clinician with current NMC midwifery registration

- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Evidence of expanded clinical skills - e.g. IV drug administration, cannulation, phlebotomy etc.

**Other requirements**

- Ability to travel across sites where required

- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.

- Fluent in Urdu (desirable)

## Skills

### Required
- genetic testing
- midwifery
- communication
- interpersonal skills
- project management

### Nice to have
- Urdu
- genetic training

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