Delivery Suite Midwifery Practioner - London, United Kingdom - Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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If you have completed your competencies as a newly qualified midwife or are an experienced midwife (able to cannulate and suture) looking for a new challenge; have vision, are motivated with a commitment to providing and developing a first-class service then we want you.

We are looking for dynamic, inspirational midwives to transfer their existing skills and interests to our unit.

Rotations to the Day Assessment Unit and Community are available on an individual basis as part of your professional development.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust facilitates care to over 8,000 mothers/birthing people and their babies every year. We have a busy obstetric unit supported by a beautiful co-aligned Birth Centre.

Our whole maternity service is exciting and innovative and due to this, we have continuously received a CQC rating of 'Good' since 2017.

L&G have a wide variety of midwifery roles at all levels, so why not visit our careers page on our website and watch our videos to see why working for us is such a great idea.

You will be required to assess, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care, as the named care provider and support with the care of all clients on the ward / unit as required.

You will be competent in providing the necessary care and advice to your client dependent on the situation and area you are in.

You will be competent to conduct deliveries under your own responsibility and care for the newborn, whilst having a sound knowledge in all areas of midwifery care.

You will be responsible for ensuring your own continuing professional development and other development activities are completed each year and have completed a preceptorship programme.

You will be an effective communicator with the ability to provide support for the shift co-ordinator to ensure the effective running of the ward/unit in their absence.

You will be required to provide daily clinical and managerial leadership to midwifery and support staff in the delivery of evidence-based client centred care.

Our people are our greatest asset.

When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients.

Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement.

We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
Improving the experience of staff with disability
Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
Making equalities mainstream

The post holder is responsible for the assessment development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, both for specific groups of clients as the named care provider and in supporting the care of all clients on the ward / unit.

As a qualified midwife the post holder will be required to provide the necessary supervision, care and advice to women/birthing people during pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period, to conduct deliveries under their own responsibility and care for the newborn.

They should have a sound knowledge in all areas of midwifery care, which facilitates clinical practice development.

They will be required to participate in their continuing professional development and other development activities and have completed a preceptorship programme.

If working in the hospital, the post requires effective communication and an ability to provide support for the shift co-ordinator to ensure the effective running of the ward/unit in their absence.

The post holder will also provide daily clinical and managerial leadership to midwifery and support staff in the delivery of evidence based client centred care.

The teaching and supervision of student midwives, student nurses and medical students are included.

If the post holder is community based, they are expected to work in the community/ birth centre setting but can be asked to rotate between all clinical areas to cover service needs and demands at times of escalation.

The post holder will be expected to work in the hospital or community environment covering all shifts and on call commitments (Community) as required by the service.