Registered Midwife

Registered Midwife - Band 6 - 22.5 hours - Fixed term 12 months

*Required to undertake shifts covering nights, weekends and bank holidays.**

To provide direct inpatient midwifery care within a safe environment, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating midwifery care to ensure the safety of women, birthing people and their babies.

We are committed to the continual professional development of midwives within our Trust and run an innovative and well -structured training programme that supports and enhances midwifery skills to project the most recent evidence -based care. We also currently offer a variety of external courses to assist with ongoing continual professional development that pique the interest of midwives including: Aromatherapy, Biomechanics of birth, Maternity critical care, Professional Midwifery Advocates (PMA), Physiological breech birth, Hypnotherapy and many more. We support the wellbeing of staff through the establishment and dedication of a Professional Midwifery Advocacy Service and the additional benefits listed below.

Job description

The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focuses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife

Desirable

• Evidence of continuing professional development

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of the public health agenda
• Knowledge of multiple-agencies working together towards child protection

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of multi disciplinary/multi agency working
• Experience of working in Maternity Triage/Using BSOTs or equivalent

Desirable

• Experience of clinical audit.
• Experience of research activities
• Evidence of leadership skills

Skills

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including IT skills Record keeping and documentation
• Ability to make calm rational decisions in the face of adversity
• Capacity to work within a multidisciplinary team

Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour Treats colleagues and the general public with dignity and respect

Clinically competent

Effective organisational skills Good analytical and clinical decision making skills

Motivated to personal and professional development of self and other junior colleagues.(

Desirable

• Able to work flexibly rotating on to day and night duty
• Evidence of teaching and assessing skills/ability
• Evidence of self management of workload

About the employer

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers. Our mission is to make a difference every day.

Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you. We recognise that flexible working is important.

We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service. The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you: