Inpatient Midwife

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
Royal Oldham Hospital are pleased to offer full and part time vacancies for committed, dynamic and enthusiastic midwives who would like to join our inpatient midwifery teams. This post will provide you with an opportunity to care for women who are receiving care on our antenatal ward including induction of labour, enhanced recovery bay (following planned caesarean section), labour ward and postnatal ward.

This is an exciting time to join our maternity services as we implement new pathways of care to improve safety and the experience of women and their families. We welcome new ideas and suggestions for service improvement from our team and actively support development of individuals and teams.

**Main duties of the job**:
Provision of midwifery care to women admitted to the antenatal ward, enhanced recovery bay, labour ward and postnatal ward at ROH.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT) and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (PAT). Our dedicated team of around 20,000 staff - our NCA Family - provide a range of community and hospital services to over one million people across Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Salford, as well as providing more specialist care services to patients across Greater Manchester and beyond.

Our Care Organisations are designed to operate within a group arrangement of hospitals, community, and healthcare services. Together they manage and are responsible for the day-to-day running of their hospital and community services, ensuring the safe delivery of high-quality care at scale.

Oldham Care Organisation is responsible for delivering healthcare services at the Royal Oldham Hospital and within the community. The hospital has a full A&E department, including a specialist one for children, and offers a comprehensive range of acute and general surgical services, including vascular surgery

Oldham Care Organisation are committed to developing a Maternity Service which is leads in transforming the service for women and their families

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Registration**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Registered Midwife

**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Degree/Diploma in Midwifery

**Desirable criteria**:

- NIPE Qualification

**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Good communication skills
- IT skills
- Evidence of CPD
- Practice Assessor

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**Employer certification / accreditation badges**:
**Applicant requirements**:

- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.