St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Midwife

Company
Location
Ormskirk, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
6/5/2025
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Description
We are currently recruiting early career midwives (Band 5) across our Ormskirk and Whiston Hospital sites!

At MWL we offer a preceptorship package with dedicated support, which provides post qualification experience across all areas of maternity and facilities a smooth transition to an autonomous band 6 practitioner.

If you are forward thinking, flexible and enthusiastic then consider joining our midwifery team.

Interview date: 21st June 2025

Please note interviews may include an assessment task.

The Early Career Midwife will complete a preceptorship programme rotating to all areas within maternity. The midwife will participate in high quality care for women and their families, also providing mentorship and professional support to enable students and maternity support workers to do the same. As a rotational post the midwife will have the opportunity to gain experience and maintain skills within antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care. The midwife works autonomously within Trust guidelines and sphere of professional practice with reference to departmental manager as appropriate. The midwife will work within their sphere of practice in accordance with NMC codes of practice and professional guidelines.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our Services

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancs. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Achievements

  • Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
  • Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
  • National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Janet Calland Job title: Matron Maternity Services Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01695 656356

Ashleigh Lathom Specialist Midwife for preceptorship and retention.

01695 656501

01704 703717

Jan Bentley Intrapartum Matron St Helens and Knowsley Site

0151 4301761
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