Job summary
- Main area
- mat
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment: 1 year
- Hours
- Part time - 19 hours per week
- Job ref
- 197-RF5254
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospital Lewisham
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata plus HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
DAU Midwife
NHS AfC: Band 6
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
Are you looking to work in an award winning, well-supported, friendly, dynamic, culturally astute, inclusive environment that puts women/birthing people at the centre of a high standard of care.
Our latest CQC report has been published and we have maintained our good rating since 2017 and have been awarded as outstanding for leadership,
Are you wanting to stop working Nights? If so, we have a great opportunity for you.
We are looking for a confident, competent midwife to work days only for 1 long and 1 short day a week. We know how difficult it can be to juggle your home/work life balance so we can be flexible with hours to suit your needs.
Do you enjoy working autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team?
Are you confident to care for clients with confirmed PROM, suspected obstetric cholestasis, reduced fetal movements, hypertension, proteinuria and pre-eclampsia?
Are you confident to take charge of shifts advising junior midwives, doctors and community colleagues on the management of high risk antenatal and postnatal women/birthing people?
Are you able to utilise our clinical guidelines to their full potential facilitating midwifery management of high risk antenatal and postnatal care?
If you can answer yes to the above, then come and join us on a secondment in the DAU team at University Hospital Lewisham.
This post is not suitable for newly qualified midwives or overseas Midwives who do not hold a UK NMC PIN
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the assessment development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, both for specific groups of clients as the named care provider and in supporting the care of all clients on the ward / unit.
As a qualified midwife you will be required to provide the necessary supervision, care and advice to women/birthing people during pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period and if required, to conduct deliveries under your own responsibility and care for the newborn.
You should have a sound knowledge in all areas of midwifery care, which facilitates clinical practice development.
You will be required to participate in your continuing professional development and other development activities and have completed a preceptorship programme. The post requires you to be an effective communicator and have the ability to provide support for the shift co-ordinator to ensure the effective running of the ward/unit in their absence.
You will also provide daily clinical and managerial leadership to midwifery and support staff in the delivery of evidence based client centred care.
Additional hours available elsewhere in the unit if required.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder is responsible for the assessment development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, both for specific groups of clients as the named care provider and in supporting the care of all clients on the ward / unit. As a qualified midwife the post holder will be required to provide the necessary supervision, care and advice to women/birthing people during pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period, to conduct deliveries under their own responsibility and care for the newborn. They should have a sound knowledge in all areas of midwifery care, which facilitates clinical practice development.
They will be required to participate in their continuing professional development and other development activities and have completed a preceptorship programme.
If working in the hospital, the post requires effective communication and an ability to provide support for the shift co-ordinator to ensure the effective running of the ward/unit in their absence.
The post holder will also provide daily clinical and managerial leadership to midwifery and support staff in the delivery of evidence based client centred care.
The teaching and supervision of student midwives, student nurses and medical students are included.
If the post holder is community based, they are expected to work in the community/ birth centre setting but can be asked to rotate between all clinical areas to cover service needs and demands at times of escalation.
The post holder will be expected to work in the hospital or community environment covering all shifts and on call commitments (Community) as required by the service.
Person specification
Qualification & Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Practice Assessor / commitment to complete
Experience, Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess and plan care for women/birthing people in all aspects of midwifery care.
- Understands the needs of postnatal women/birthing people
- Knowledge of how to access emergency services in both hospital and community setting
- Can interpret CTGs and identify features which deviate from accepted parameters of normality
- Experienced in resuscitation of the newborn
- Experience in caring of women/birthing people in low risk setting including home births and waterbirths.
- Computer literacy
- Able to deliver a high standard of evidence based individual client care
- Effective communicator with good leadership and interpersonal skills
- Evidence of ability to take charge in the absence of their direct line manager
- Demonstrate midwifery skills underpinned by current evidence • To include suturing, venepuncture and cannulation or • perineal repair/ commitment to achieve competence within 12 months of appointment
- Demonstrate an awareness of the importance of audit and policy
- Demonstrate competence in the promotion of infant feeding using experience based practice
Desirable criteria
- Examination of the newborn
- Is competent in delivering antenatal parent education session/committed to achieve competence within 12 months of appointment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Bola Aluko
- Job title
- Lead Midwife DAU
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 333 3000
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