- Be responsible as an autonomous practitioner for assessing, diagnosing and providing professional clinical midwifery care to women during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal stages without referral to a medical practitioner.
- To ensure referral to the appropriate health professional and to work in partnership with that health professional to ensure safe standards of care.
- Take full responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating Midwifery care consistent with evidence based practice for parents, babies and families.
- Discuss options and support parents in making informed choice in their plan of care such as Birth plans, pain relief, infant feeding, baby care, return to work and family planning.
- Discuss options and support parents in making informed choice in the period following birth.
- Analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of such care, making necessary modifications of any midwifery care pathway and giving professional advice and support as required.
- Act as the clients advocate and empower them to promote their own health and well being.
- Respect the need for privacy and dignity and obtain clients informed consent throughout the childbirth continuum.
- Refer clients to other practitioners senior midwife, obstetrician, physiotherapist and paediatrician when needs and risks are beyond the post holders scope of practice or require specialist input.
- Qualified Midwife - NMC registered
- Current UK Driving Licence
- Post Registration Practice
- Band 6 Experience
- Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).
- Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
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Band 6 Midwife - Brighton, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)
Description
Job summary
Come join our highly motivated but friendly Midwifery team, where commitment to providing high quality, holistic care is our passion.
This is an exciting yet challenging time, as we embrace a period of improvement and development.
We are looking for midwives to join our teams at Brighton.,
We are therefore inviting self-motivated, dynamic, professional midwives with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to join our proactive, professional maternity team. If you are a midwife who would like to be a part of our future and can meet this challenge, we welcome your interest in a post with us - please apply today
All posts will include shift working (including night duty) and on call duty. The successful applicants will receive a comprehensive orientation programme and are assured that they will receive appropriate support.
For further information on joining ourMaternity teamat UHSussex please
Main duties of the job
About us
At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always put the Patient First, as shown in our Outstanding for Caring CQC rating. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of Staff Networks to help break down barriers, and can offer abuddy to help new members settle in. We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) and a Veteran Aware Trust.
We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We're here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our Wellbeing Programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it - because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.
As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do.
We look forward to receiving your application and the start of your journey with UHSussex.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
Patient Care Delivery
Please see attached Job Description for more details.
Person SpecificationBand 6
Essential
Desirable
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Essential
