Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On call shifts once a month at night)
- Job ref
- 359-6856627-T3
- Employer
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tunbridge wells
- Town
- Royal Tonbridge Wells
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Delivery Suite Maternity Enhanced Care Unit Lead/ Theatre Link RM
Band 7
Job overview
There is an exciting opportunity for experienced midwives substantial experience as a Band 6 or above, who are passionate about midwifery enhanced care and leadership to join our team of Senior Midwives on Delivery Suite TWH.
This is a role for motivated, experienced midwives in a high/low risk challenging maternity environment. She/he will have good communication and expert midwifery skills, committed to giving high-quality care and challenge practice in supporting individual focused care and will be flexible with day and night working. To also partake in the on-call system.
You will lead on MECU care, educate and support staff within this high risk environment and be our main maternity theatre link midwife and work in close collaboration with the MDT, Theatre staff, Critical Care.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a dynamic and forward-thinking midwife to provide effective leadership, be a role model of excellent midwifery practice, particularly within MECU and theatres and demonstrate a commitment in supporting colleagues to provide women centred care and a positive birth experience. In this role you will also assist with the day to day co-ordination of the activity on the Delivery suite and working in close collaboration with the key areas in the unit. Experience of coordinating a delivery suite is desirable. Evidence of up to date PROMPT training and physiological fetal surveillance is essential.
It will involve working collaboratively with members of the multidisciplinary team, giving advice and support in intrapartum and acute midwifery and obstetric care.
This post will also involve facilitating training along with the PDM's.
Please see JD for full duties related to this post
Working for our organisation
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.
We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in West Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre. Fordcombe Hospital is near Tunbridge Wells and became part of the Trust in October 2024. It focusses on planned care and has two operating theatres, 28 inpatient and day care beds, diagnostic services including X-ray, MRI, CT and endoscopy, and a number of consultation and treatment rooms.
In the 2023 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.
Following your Corporate Induction you will be expected to attend the Trust’s 2-week Induction Programme for RNs, NAs, RMs, ODPs and Paramedics. The programme is full-time (please email [email protected] if this is problematic) and will involve travel to both Trust sites. The programme includes supernumerary shifts in the clinical area, classroom-based sessions and e-learning.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at Enhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children)
At MTW, we seek to develop a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career. We recognise and value the unique contributions that each of our staff bring, delivering the best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work.
We support our staff with disabilities to ensure they have the adjustments they need to be the best they can be in the workplace. Collaborating with Access to Work means that our staff are assessed by experts in the workplace and we ensure that their recommendations are implemented as quickly as possible. You can find out more here: Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition: What Access to Work is - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Please note that this role may often attract a high level of applications. Please note this role may close earlier than the original closing date so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RM and eligible to practice
- Working at a degree level
- Completed Enhanced Maternal Care (EMC) training or equivalent
- Mentorship in Practice / Sign off mentor
- Evidence of further study and development of professional and academic skills
- Recognition of Sepsis and Treatment
Desirable criteria
- Leadership/ management qualification
- Course in the Care of the Post-Operative Patient/Recovery
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Significant experience at band 6 or above
- • Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate Midwifery care for women and their babies.
- • Experience with working in a Maternity Enhanced Care setting.
- • Experience of working within the Maternity Theatre setting
- • Sound knowledge of recent Government/Professional documents with awareness of implications to service provision.
- • Knowledge of safeguarding and how Concern & Vulnerability process works, including Social Services
- • Experience of acting as a mentor to both qualified midwives and students encouraging evidence-based practice
Desirable criteria
- • To have developed local and national networks
- • Had experience of coordinating delivery suite
Skills
Essential criteria
- Leadership & management skills
- Delivery of enhanced care
- Conflict management skills
- Report writing
- Negotiation
- Suturing
- Excellent IT skills
- Mentoring
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Up to date with PROMPT and physiological CTG interpretation
- Caring for the deteriorating patient
- Experience of working in theatres
Desirable criteria
- • Good presentation skills
- • To have participated in audit/research and development programmes
- • Have Delivery Suite Coordinator role experience
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
- Tracy Thresher
- Job title
- Maternity Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01892633604
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