The post holder will play a vital role in delivering and evaluating midwifery care while adhering to professional standards set by the World Health Organisation and the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Responsibilities include providing clinical supervision to junior colleagues, maintaining high standards of care, participating in education and professional development initiatives, and contributing to a supportive learning environment for students and staff. The position also involves managerial tasks, risk management, and data recording, ensuring the safe delivery of maternity services aligned with clinical guidelines and best practices.
We are looking to recruit innovative Band 6 midwives who are passionate about providing quality care to birthing families and are dedicated to providing evidence based care. The post holder will work on a rotational basis alongside other acute areas of the women's centre.
Here in Oxfordshire, we offer women and healthcare professionals a unique set up of our Maternity Services where around 7500 babies are born annually. We have 4 stand-alone Midwifery Led Birth units within the county based at Banbury, Chipping Norton, Wantage and Wallingford as well as offering home births to all areas. There is also an integrated birth unit where around 10% of birthing people choose to go in labour. As a large Tertiary hospital, the John Radcliffe offers a large Delivery Suite with an en-suite birthing pool room, 3 Maternity theatres and a specific Maternity Recovery Ward.
Please Note:This post is only for band 6 midwives, not newly qualified or International Educated midwives without prior UK midwifery experience
This job is a rotational midwifery post between Fetal Medicine and other maternity areas within the trust . It is a great opportunity to work with a friendly, highly skilled, multi-disciplinary team, providing tertiary-level clinical care and support for women with complex pregnancies across Oxfordshire and the Fetal Medicine Network. Each week the Fetal Medicine and Pre-Term Birth Teams see up to 190 families requiring high risk care pathways. Responsibilities for the successful candidates include managing in-utero transfers and high-risk pregnancy clinics, referral triage, bereavement care and supporting and facilitating invasive procedures and insertion of cervical cerclage
About us
Working as a midwifery practitioner to. Provide continuity of care, advice and support throughout pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period.
Be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care within the practice area and to provide and maintain high standards of midwifery care.
Teach, motivate and encourage high standards of practice whilst furthering personal knowledge and experience.
Accept responsibility for own personal and professional development.
To contribute to the management of the practice area by accepting delegated responsibility from senior colleagues.
Contribute to the learning environment of the practice area to enable students and new members of the practice area team to be supported.
Ensure all statutory and non-statutory rules and regulations are complied with. Assist in promoting Clinical Risk Management within the practice area.
Working as a midwife the post-holder will:Professional/Clinical Practice:
Fulfil the role of midwife, as defined by the World Health Organisation and the NMCMidwives Rules and Code of Practice.
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate midwifery care, to a defined group of womentaking into account the standards and philosophies of the county-wide Maternity Services. Accurately document all care given. Provide clinical supervision and support to less experienced midwives and maternity careassistants. Have ability and skills to organise own workload Maintain awareness of current advances and changes in practice Develop clinical expertise through experience and by attending appropriate courses, studydays and discussion groups etc. Provide evidence of achieving the consolidation of clinical skills and the development ofadditional practice skills and knowledge Participate in and contribute to programmes of care to develop parenting skills andknowledge Evaluate practice by utilising of evidence based practice and participating in research
With support of a senior colleague act as advocate for women and their families to ensureappropriate care. Participate, where appropriate, in the on-call rota for the service. Develop ability to take charge on a shift by shift basis. Be able to cannulate and suture.Managerial practice: Be aware of the working structure of the Oxfordshire Maternity Services and theresources available.Assist in maintaining a safe environment, reporting all accidents and incidents to theWard Manager/Team Leader. Ensure relevant documentation is completed
Provide professional support to other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
Version 4 March 2020Professional Development, Education & Research: Act as a supervisor to Maternity Support Workers and undergraduate students. Act as a preceptor Supervise Maternity Support Workers and help in the identification of their trainingneeds. Define own educational and development needs and to discuss these at appraisal. Participate in the setting of standards of care using valid evidence-based practice. Keep up to date with professional issues that influence midwives practice relating totheir area of clinical practice, management education and research. Contribute towards the continuing development of professional practice within theclinical area embracing new ideas and changes for the benefit of women and theirfamilies. Inform the ward manager/team leader if there are insufficient resources available toprovide safe care.Demonstrate the ability to record data on the maternity system and to be able to retrievedata results from OUHFT information systems. Accept responsibility for own personal and professional growth and maintaining a recordof professional development experiences. Use the Trust ELMS Revalidation tool in preparation for revalidation. Participate in formal and informal review of own performance with your preceptor, teamleader, ward manager and peer group. Contribute towards the collection of data for local, regional or national reports.
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