Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Working flexibly over nights, days and weekends
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 343-6597814-RB-UB-Y-B
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Epsom General Hospital
- Town
- Epsom
- Salary
- £34,521 - £50,697 pro rata per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 5/6 Midwife - Epsom site
Band 5
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
It is an exciting time to join Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust maternity team. We provide care to around 4300 women per year across two sites at Epsom and St Helier. We pride ourselves in the promotion of women centred care and have well established co-located birth centres in addition to the obstetric led labour wards, fetal medicine and specialist midwifery teams.
We have an established home birth team and pathways in place to look after women with complex care needs. Women and their families using our maternity service consistently report very positive childbirth experiences, we have an active Maternity Voices Partnership and we have a number of improvement projects underway which will further develop our service and workforce. We have been awarded the CNST Incentive funding for safety, we are Baby Friendly Gold reaccredited, we have used Badgernet digital records since 2018 , and we are are extremely proud of our 'Call the Midwife' advice line.
Main duties of the job
Midwife- Band 5/6
We are looking for midwives for the inpatient service on our Epsom site, who share our passion for high quality care for women and offer opportunities to be involved at the front line of service transformation. We welcome applications from either newly qualified or more experienced Band 6 midwives to join us on our journey. These roles ensure that all midwives grow and maintain competency in all areas of the maternity pathway, and also play a key part in the significant development of our services.
We are a digital Maternity service and use Badgernet platform for our documentation. We have a successful Midwifery Immunisation team and a progressive Research team who are successful at seeking new projects for us to be involved in and keeping us at the forefront of improving the quality of our Midwifery practice
We have a very robust preceptorship programme for newly qualified midwives in addition to many opportunities for in house training and development. We offer a warm, friendly and supportive environment to work in. If you are passionate about being at the forefront of the changes occurring in midwifery services and shaping sustainable quality improvements, we would love to hear from you. This is an excellent opportunity for you to progress in your career and to develop your midwifery skills in a fully supported environment
Working for our organisation
Epsom and St Helier
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description for further information about this post and working for our organisation.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Mentor qualification or willingness to undertake mentorship course at earliest opportunity
Desirable criteria
- NIPE course
- Experience working with maternity IT systems
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of professional development & acquisition of clinical competencies
Desirable criteria
- Experience in a broad range of clinical areas
Skills/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent clinical midwifery skills and knowledge
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
- Excellent IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in teams offering continuity of care
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected]. 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
- Mary Willocks
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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