Description
We are looking for a midwife to join our Enhanced Maternity Care Unit and Hospital Birth Centre (Delivery Suite).
The successful midwife will provide high quality and effective care to women who have chosen to have NHS care during their pregnancy journey, ensuring that all families are cared for compassionately and sensitively.
The midwife will ensure that families are cared for appropriately in a timely manner and have individualised plans of care that are documented and agreed with the women, considering the woman's holistic, cultural and individual needs.
The midwife must be flexible in his/her care of women and be aware that based on unit requirements, on occasion, his/her skills may be required in other ward areas within St Thomas' maternity unit.
Main duties of the job
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team and liaise with and receive support from other healthcare professionals on the ward such as doctors, nurses and more senior midwives.
- Provide care for women who are critically ill in the childbearing period as well as labour care for high-risk women.
- Work shifts between the obstetric-led labour ward and the Enhanced Maternity Care Unit (EMCU).
- Collaborate with the EMCU nurse and medical team to plan and deliver care for high-risk patients during their stay on the labour ward.
Benefits
- Opportunities for training and education developments
- Cycle to work scheme
- Sports and social club
- Flexible working
- Family and childcare support
- Staff psychologists
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Travel season ticket loans
- Salary sacrifice schemes
- Long service awards
Requirements
- Registered Midwife (degree or diploma)
- Experience working in a multicultural environment
- Ability to practice as an autonomous midwife in the acute and primary care setting
- Completion of a Band 5 Level Preceptorship programme
- Previous experience working in a High-Risk setting
- Ideally, completion of a HDU midwifery course (or willingness to complete within a year of employment)