Midwife Band 6inPooleinPoolePUBLISHED FRI 15 NOV 2024

We are looking for passionate and motivated midwives to join our forward-thinking, energetic midwifery team. Our maternity services across Poole and Bournemouth have created new opportunities and are due to relocate to a new purpose built maternity unit in 2025, this is a great time to join and be part of our new team. We are looking to recruit Band 6 midwives across the following areas:

• Antenatal
• Community
• Labour and Birth care
• Maternity triage
• Postnatal

Maternity Services at UHD are located in the community in Poole and Bournemouth and on a self-contained site currently at the St Mary's Maternity Hospital, across the road from the main Poole Hospital site moving to the 'BEACH' building in 2025.

This role requires NMC Registration

Base: Bournemouth/ Poole Hospital based location moving solely to Royal Bournemouth Hospital 2025 with hubs for community staff.

This vacancy is advertised as fixed time at present with the likelihood of this becoming permanent in the lead up to the move to Bournemouth as we are aware that staff will move in the lead to our move and also with the natural changes in staff circumstances through promotion and maternity leave etc.

The Maternity department is committed to education and development. We invest in an education team which supports learning and practice development across the department. Opportunities currently in place are as follows:

• Access to a Practice Development Midwife and Clinical Practice Facilitator
• Live Team Skills Drills
• Access recognised post-registration qualifications in partnership with Bournemouth University
• E-learning programmes
• Post registration opportunities to study at degree, Masters and PhD level
• Potential to progress through the career structure from Midwife Practitioner to Midwife Team Leader, Consultant Midwife and Matron.

As a band 6 midwife it is expected that you will be clinically competent and will take responsibility as a sign off mentor for student midwives. You will work a shift pattern that includes unsocial hours and provides a 24/7, 365 day a year service. We can offer you the opportunity to take on link roles within infection control / risk management / clinical skills trainer/ safeguarding as required by the service. We are responsive to national agendas and continuously review and develop our services often leading to opportunities to progress your career.

About us

• To ensure that midwifery practice is in keeping with current research by assisting in the development of an evidence based culture and implementation of research and evidence based protocols and guidelines.
• To assist in the maintenance, monitoring and evaluation of standards of care within the midwifery team and to assist in the implementation of recommendations from Government or Professional bodies and Patient Charter Standards in relation to maternity care.
• To assist in the development of Health and Safety standards and the monitoring of these standards, ensuring that Trust policies are adhered to and equipment is used correctly and in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act.
• To assist and support the continual review, development and improvement of maternity services.
• When determining a pathway of care, taking a holistic history relating to the women/birth persons pregnancy, analysing all information and determining the most appropriate pathway of care.
• To participate in the integrated midwifery model working within both community and all areas of the acute setting working shifts, including day and night shifts providing a 24-hour, 365-day service.