Job summary
- Main area
- Women & Children's
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working day and night shifts)
- Job ref
- 210-2024-1053
- Employer
- Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Countes of Chester Hospital
- Town
- Chester
- Salary
- £29,970 - £44,962 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Maternity Vaccination Midwife / Nurse
Band 6
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, staff pride themselves on not only leading through clinical excellence, but also by creating an environment where all staff are valued and appreciated. To achieve this, the Trust has embarked on an exciting new strategy focused on continuous improvement.
Our vision is to improve the lives of our community and provide excellence in healthcare, through partnership and innovation
Our High Performance Culture will support everyone to be the best version of themselves by being true to our Trust vision, values and behaviours.
We welcome applications from colleagues from our local and neighbouring communities of all backgrounds and identities, who are currently under-represented within our region such as Black, Asian, Minority ethnic and those with disabilities.
As a region we are reviewing the way we work, and exploring how new working practices that support flexible working can create a positive work-life balance. As part of our recruitment process we will explore how our inclusive employment policies, flexible working, staff engagement forums, Trust facilities and services can be of mutual benefit.
Job overview
Working Full time: 37.5 hours per week
We are seeking enthusiastic and dynamic Nurse or Midwives to join our highly motivated Maternity team at The Countess of Chester. This is an exciting opportunity to provide a high- quality immunisation service to pregnant women and BCG vaccinations for new-borns birthed at The Countess of Chester.
We are committed to providing a safe and positive experience to our women, while recognising that staff are our greatest asset. We engage with our staff at all levels to discuss ideas to improve our care, while providing staff development opportunities.
We are excited to announce we are working on plans for our new maternity unit which is planned to open in 2025. We have 2300 births per year, our Maternity Service includes the following:
- An alongside midwifery unit
- An 8 bed consultant led obstetric Unit
- A Community midwifery service
- A Fetal Medicine Service inc. preterm clinics
- A 27 bed antenatal and postnatal ward providing 4 transitional care beds
- Specialist midwives within Bereavement, Infant Feeding, Perinatal Mental Health Midwife, Fetal Services, saving babies lives, fetal monitoring and practice development.
- Close relationship with our local Maternity Voice Partnership
Main duties of the job
- To contribute to the delivery of a high-quality antenatal and newborn BCG immunisation service to pregnant women booked to birth their baby at The Countess of Chester Hospital.
- To increase the uptake of influenza, pertussis, RSV, and other necessary immunisations by pregnant women.
- To support the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the antenatal immunisation programme delivery.
- To provide advice and information about immunisation to educate staff, antenatal women/ birthing people, and other stakeholders.
- To take a woman-centred and public health approach to improve health and tackle inequalities.
- Always Work within the nursing and midwifery council (NMC) code of professional conduct.
- Undertake work they have been assessed as competent to do.
Working for our organisation
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
- The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
- Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
- Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £27.50 (standard) or £55.50 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse or Midwife
- Professional/clinical knowledge acquired through midwifery training to degree/ diploma level plus preceptorship or equivalent
- Current NMC Registration 12 months post registration experience
- Additional specialist training or knowledge to diploma level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Qualified to administer vaccinations to adults
- Qualified to administer BCG vaccinations to babies
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of multiagency working
- Understands confidentiality issues
- Knowledge of safeguarding
- Knowledge of national maternity immunisations programmes
- Understand the needs of disadvantaged and global majority groups
- Knowledge of evidence-based practice
- Understand professional accountability and delegation issues
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate
- Ability to apply learned knowledge
- Ability to manage workload
- Ability to lead, motivate, work within a team.
- Able to work unsupervised and use own initiative
- Good interpersonal skills
Desirable criteria
- Ability to use electronic systems
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Lorraine Millward
- Job title
- Outpatient Maternity Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01244363238
- Additional information
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