Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit LeadBand 7 - Surrey, United Kingdom - Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Description

Job overview

Responsible for co-ordinating the early pregnancy and recurrent miscarriage service across both St Helier and Epsom Hospital

Focus on providing high quality clinical care to pregnant and non-pregnant women who experience complications relating to recurrent miscarriage and complications in early pregnancy.

Manage the service and line manages the team of Band 6 midwives and maternity

Clinically assess women with early pregnancy complications according to hospital guidelines, plan and implement management/refer to the obstetric consultant specialists as appropriate.

Work closely with the obstetric and sonography team in diagnosing and advising on the management of women with concerns in early pregnancy.

Ensure women and their partners are sensitively offered appropriate information, support and counselling in respect of early pregnancy complications including recurrent miscarriage, threatened miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, pregnancy of unknown location, pain, anxiety and hyperemesis.

Main duties of the job

CLINICAL PRACTICE

Take responsibility for own personal development and adhere to the NMC standards for Midwifery Practice.

Undertake venepuncture, order diagnostic blood tests, interpret results and initiate appropriate interventions.

Ensure that nursing care is patient focused and that patient dignity and privacy are maintained at all times.

Ensure due regard is given to the customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients and colleagues and that equal opportunities are practiced.

Ensure women are prioritised according to need and there is effective patient flow throughout the department.

Whenever possible the post holder will attempt to resolve all complaints

Emotional support for the staff to deal with complex patients and families.

Working for our organisation

Equal Opportunities

The Trust affords its employees equal opportunities in employment, training and development irrespective of sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability, marital/parental status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, hours of work, political beliefs, TU membership or age.

Clinical Governance

Staff are expected to provide patients with timely and effective care. Treatment and direct / indirect support must be based on best practice. Everyone is responsible for this and his/her job in the Trust is important in achieving this.

Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF)

All staff excluding Doctors and Dentists are required to participate in the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework. This is an annual appraisal process linking career and pay progression. All staff will be required to attend mandatory training on the Knowledge and Skills Framework before they can embark on the appraisal process.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

CLINICAL PRACTICE

Take responsibility for own personal development and adhere to the NMC standards for Midwifery Practice.

Undertake venepuncture, order diagnostic blood tests, interpret results and initiate appropriate interventions.

Oversee the close follow-up of women with pregnancy of unknown location, ectopic pregnancy and missed miscarriage in consultation with the lead consultant

Develop and maintain skills in relation to miscarriage and early pregnancy by participation and attendance at relevant educational events.

Person specification

Essential and Desirable

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

essential and desirable

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Your application : Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References : You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date : In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting : You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS : We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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