Telephone Triage Midwife - Bicester, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for midwives to join our MAMAS line.

This role involves working for Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust's maternity telephone triage service, located within the South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) in Northern House, Bicester.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for motivated and experienced midwives to join our team in running our new, innovative pregnancy advice line for women booked at Frimley Park and Wexham Park hospitals. The post requires autonomous practitioners who are confident in their ability to communicate and advise women effectively on the telephone line.

This is a unique opportunity to develop your skills and decision making ability. The successful candidate will be part of a wider multi-disciplinary team, working alongside paramedics, air ambulance teams, and members of the clinical specialist team which are pivotal to the co-ordination of access to maternity care.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We provide a service to Frimley Park, Wexham Park, Farnham and Heatherwood Hospitals, as well as our local community team. This offers great development opportunities in a fast-paced settings which provide seven-day services to our patients.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

In the Therapies Directorate we have a strong Equality Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) culture and welcome applicants who will continue to contribute to the power of diversity we want in our teams to help us deliver our best services to our population.

Job responsibilities

The advice line transforms the care we provide to women. The line is open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day and can offer advice and support for any pregnancy related concerns from 16 weeks of pregnancy and into the postnatal period. The advice line is based in a bespoke hub at South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) Emergency Operations Centre in Bicester, and may include a combination of telephone and video conferencing.

The advice line is the epitome of multi-professional working and you will be a key player in ensuring women are cared for in the right place, at the right time, every single time. Extensive cross-organisation training will be given for this role.

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable