Bank Midwife - London, United Kingdom - Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals

Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Main duties of the job:

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust became a new enlarged organisation on 1 July 2014. We now consist of the Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital.

We are offering exciting opportunities for newly qualified and experienced midwives to join our team as a bank midwife. We provide maternity services across a large part of North and Central London. We also have services based across the community. Joining together has meant that we have been able to expand in many areas of midwifery.

This includes having 3 consultant midwives, midwifery teams leading on complex psychosocial care; we have two alongside Birth Centres and one stand-alone at the Edgware Birth Centre.

Our midwives are based either within the cross-site community teams, at the Royal Free Hospital or at the Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital and Edgware.

Working for our organisation:

The post holder will offer World Class Care to service users, staff, colleagues, clients and patients alike so that everyone at the Royal Free can feel:

Welcome all of the time
Confident because we are clearly
Communicating:

-
Respected and cared for
-
Reassured that they are always in safe hands

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

To work as part of the Multi-professional team providing a high standard of
antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal midwifery care to women and their families within the integrated maternity service.

To rotate within all clinical areas within maternity services to support professional development and maintain safe standards of midwifery care in line with service provision.

Main duties

Provide a high standard of midwifery care to mothers and babies during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period.
Take autonomous clinical decisions in an emergency to ensure safe outcomes for mother and baby
Able to work as an autonomous practitioner in all aspects of midwifery practice

Person specification:

Values:

Essential criteria:

Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Education & Qualifications:

Essential criteria:

NMC Part 10 register or equivalent
Experience (placement or post grad) within both the wards and delivery suite areas

Desirable criteria:

Evidence of professional updating
Academic and/or professional/vocational training and development

Experience:

Essential criteria:

Minimum introduction to IV cannulations, suturing, scrubbing in theatre, epidural top ups, resuscitation of new born

Desirable criteria:

Previous experience working as a midwife/Band 5 grade nurse.
Working in an environment where 'normality in midwifery' is the main focus (MLC) unit.
Previous experience working in a community setting.

Knowledge:

Essential criteria:

Ability to evaluate midwifery care.
Ability to relate NMC Midwives Rules, Code of Practice, The Scope of Professional Practice, Standards for the Administration of Medicines
Able to use appropriate language according to circumstances
Legible, literate, grammatically ccurate
Able to work well within a team.
Ability to use own initiative
Ability to prioritise own workload
Ability to manage junior staff
Have knowledge of the Public Health Agenda
Ability to educate parents and students
Ability to undertake all midwifery duties within the relevant clinical area.
IT literate

- knowledge of Clinical Governance

Desirable criteria:

Knowledge of current NSF framework/healthy hospitals initiative

Skills and Aptitudes:

Essential criteria:

Ability to adapt to new working practices
Ability to remain calm under pressure
Ability to deal calmly and courteously with difficult people
Adaptable and flexible approach to working within the Unit.
Flexible working hours

Desirable criteria:

Able to meet the practical requirements of the post. i.e. cross site shift patterns

-
Covid-19 Vaccination
Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.
-
AT

Apprenticeship Training. Where AT* is entered next to the job title indicates that this vacancy is for an apprenticeship role.
If you are an
EU/EEA citizen who does not have EU Settlement or Pre-Settled status, you will require a visa to work in the UK

Please Note:

We are unable to sponsor Band 2 to 4 as the salary does not meet the UKVI Points Based system threshold
:

-
If you require sponsorship for a visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check to ensure you are eligible under the UKVI points based system

The Trust uses
electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

-
The Trust will request a DBS (CRB) if post involves regulate