Rotational 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**:
The NCA are delighted to offer opportunities for newly qualified Midwives to join our friendly and supportive Maternity team.

We offer an excellent preceptorship programme with an option to choose a hospital based preceptorship which will support you to consolidate and develop your skills and knowledge on antenatal ward, enhanced recovery, postnatal ward and labour ward, or a community based preceptorship which will support you through rotations on community, birth centre and spoke days/weeks in inpatient service.

**Main duties of the job**:
The provision of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care to women, birthing people and families who choose the NCA as their maternity provider.

**Working for our organisation**:
Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.

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

- Registered midwife with NMC
- Degree / Diploma in Midwifery

**Desirable criteria**:

- Practice supervisor
- NIPE Qualification

**Knowledge & Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Excellent Communication Skills
- IT Skills
- Willingness to complete preceptorship
- We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

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

- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.