Midwife Band 6 MAU - London, United Kingdom - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Job overview

Maternity Assessment Unit (MAU) has an exciting opportunity for a full time/ part-time experienced midwife to join the team for a permanent position. We are seeking a dedicated individual who can confidently triage, assess, plan and implement care for pregnant women over 18 weeks pregnant and up to 6 weeks post-birth. If you are passionate about providing high-quality care and making a positive impact on the lives of mothers and their babies, we welcome you to apply for this rewarding role at MAU.

If you are interested in joining our team and would like further information please contact;

Rosemary Pearce (Midwifery Practice Leader) k

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Marissa Álvarez (Midwifery Practice Leader)

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Esther Lewinson ( MAU Matron)

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Closing date : 14th May 2024

Interview date: 28th May 2024

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced midwife to join our Maternity Assessment Unit (MAU) team to cover maternity leave for 1 year.
We are looking for a midwife who enjoys providing care for women who are accessing MAU for pregnancy related concerns and can assess, plan, implement care in a timely manner, working within a multidisciplinary team, to provide women with high quality care 24 hours a day. It is a fast paced unit with a high turn over and we have just launched BSOTs (Birmingham Symptom-specific Obstetric Triage system).
Our MAU is an exciting place to work and you can gain varied experience use of Dawes Redman, research with our prematurity team, home BP monitoring service, ECVs and scanning. Midwives who are keen to provide excellent care in collaboration with a wide range of healthcare professionals including our obstetricians, fetal medicine, and obstetric medicine team will do well in our environment.
We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 midwife keen to develop their clinical expertise in our Maternity Assessment Unit.

Working for our organisation

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals – Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King's Health Partners – we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

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The post holder is required to follow relevant Trust policies and procedures.

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Guy's and St Thomas' celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study's at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.