Midwife - Prescot, United Kingdom - St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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Prescot, United Kingdom

2 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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37.5 hours per week (Part time hours also available)

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Midwife to join our outstanding team of supportive and dedicated Midwifery and Medical staff, across all areas of Maternity, including Maternity Triage and the Community, helping to further the outstanding 5 star patient care provided by all.

We are expanding unit an increase of expectant mothers choosing to have their care from our Maternity Services. The Maternity Unit is furnished with state of the art, modern facilities for mothers and their babies.

To achieve women's expectations we offer a friendly, supportive and safe service for women, their partners, babies and their families.

We believe in promoting normality in pregnancy and Intrapartum care.

We will support our women in their choice of Birth place we currently offer three choices home, Delivery Suite or our Midwifery Led Unit.

The Maternity Team consists of a dedicated group of Midwives, Obstetrician's, Paediatricians, Anaesthetists, Health Care Assistants, a House Keeper and Admin Staff.

An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both and adults and children will be required for this post.

Interviews TBC

The post holder is responsible for providing midwifery care, as per Nursing, Midwifery Council Rules and Trust policies, on a rotational (clinical area) basis covering both day and night shifts.

The post holder will practise competently and autonomously to provide a high standard of care to women and babies during the antenatal, intranatal, and postnatal periods.

The post holder will be required to act as a shift leader in the area of the current clinical practice, as and when required to do so.

The midwife will work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, other agencies and user representatives.

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside, and one of the few in the entire country, to achieve the title of OUTSTANDING, rated by the Care Quality Commission.

We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 360,000 and provide tertiary services across a much wider area in the North West, North Wales and Isle of Man.

We are a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.

Our '5 Star Patient Care' strategy is at the heart of all that we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.

Our latest achievements include:

Acute Trust of the Year
HSJ Awards November 201
Trust rates Outstanding by the CQC
Inspection August 201
Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers and Health Service Journal)
Best acute Trust in the North West for quality of care (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
Best place to work in the North West (NHS Staff Survey 2021)

KEY DUTIES

The midwife is accountable for the personal provision of midwifery care that is evidenced based and woman centred, aiming to continually improve standards, quality of care, and ultimately the woman's experience.
The midwife must have the resilience to cope with the personal accountability and many demands of this role.
All employees have a duty and a responsibility to protect and safeguard children and vulnerable adults. The midwife must have an excellent working knowledge of local safeguarding children and vulnerable adult procedures and act in accordance of these at all times, in addition to ensuring mandatory training requirements are up to date.

CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Undertake holistic (physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual) and effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation within their own sphere of clinical practice.
In conjunction with the ward manager and senior management team, contribute to the development of midwifery models of care to ensure the delivery of evidence based woman centred midwifery care.
To support maternity managers/leaders in the assessment of current practices within midwifery and assist in innovations that lead to improved quality of care
Be trained and skilled in undertaking IV drug administration, IV cannulation, perineal suturing, caring for women with epidural anaesthesia, home birth, waterbirth and providing high dependency care
Ensure compliance of patient risk assessments, such as VTE, CPE, pressure ulcers
Undertake Newborn Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) if trained to do so.
Assist with the monitoring of NIPE compliance (72 hour target) and escalate as appropriate.
Undertake additional link midwife roles, as necessary, with other departments in the Trust, such as infection and prevention, pharmacy, medical devices, eMEWS, K2 monitoring and manual handling.
Be confident and competent in dealing with common obstetric and neonatal emergencies in a hospital and/or community setting i.e. shoulder dystocia, postpartum haemorrhage, neonatal resuscitation, maternal resuscitation, unexpected b