Student Midwife

** Fixed Term Contract/ Secondment Opportunity from September 2023- September 2025**

Are you an Adult Nurse who would like to become a midwife? Do you have at least 6 months post-registration experience as a nurse?

The theoretical components of the course are led by the University of Suffolk in Ipswich. Teaching is provided via virtual classrooms and on-campus teaching and is organised into modules that are spread across the duration of the course. Practical placements are offered within the Trust and you will be placed in various clinical locations to enable you to meet the NMC practice requirements. Clinical placements will include a community midwifery placement, midwifery led birthing unit, labour suite, antenatal clinic, a health visitor placement and neonatal unit placement. During these placements you will be supported by a practice supervisor and practice assessor.

**Full time**: 37.5 hours per week.

The course is 24 months long and finishes at the end of August 2025. Whilst completion of the programme does not automatically guarantee a permanent post, the Trust is keen to retain newly qualified midwives within the organisation.

Student midwives will work under the direction of a qualified midwife to determine and provide programmes of care and support for women which are:

- Are appropriate to the needs, contexts, culture and choices of the women, babies, and their families.
- Are made in partnership with women.
- Are ethical.
- Are based on best evidence and clinical judgement.
- Involve other practitioners when this will improve health outcomes.
- Care for and monitor women during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal period, offering the necessary evidence-based advice and support on baby and self-care.

Provide seamless care and interventions in partnership with women and other care providers during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period which:

- Are appropriate for women’s assessed needs, context, and culture.
- Promote their continuing health and wellbeing.
- Are evidence-based.
- Are consistent with the management of risk.
- Draw on the skills of others to optimise health outcomes and resource use.

Refer women who would benefit from the skills and knowledge of other individuals:

- To an individual who is likely to have the requisite skills and experience to assist.
- At the earliest possible time, supported by accurate, legible, and complete information which contains the reasoning behind making the referral and describes their needs and preferences.

To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUH’s ‘PRIDE’ values of People focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence and demonstrate behaviours that support and encourage an inclusive culture.

Please see Job Description for full details of job specification and main responsibilities.