Teenage Pregnancy Midwife

Band 6

**Main area**
- Midwifery

**Grade**
- Band 6

**Contract**
- Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment available for internal applicants)

**Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexible working requests considered. Part time hours based on equal hours job share considered.)

**Job ref**
- 164-5323868

**Site**
- Nottingham University Hospitals

**Town**
- Nottingham

**Salary**
- £35,392 - £42,618 Per annum

**Salary period**
- Yearly

**Closing**
- 16/07/2023 23:59

Job overview

We are looking for a enthusiastic and experienced midwife to join the teenage pregnancy team on a 1 year secondment or a fixed term contract to cover maternity leave.

As a teenage pregnancy midwife you will act as a champion for young women and pregnant people, not only providing their midwifery care but also providing specialist support to address their individual needs.

Our successful team supports a dedicated teenage pregnancy care pathway which promotes a multidisciplinary approach to improving health and social outcomes. Excellent communication skills are fundamental to this role, as well as being flexible in your approach to engaging young people in your care.

You will be passionate about providing client centred one to one care and support to young parents, which may often involve a variety of complex mental health and social needs.

As part of this innovative team you will be involved in service development and improvement projects and have the opportunity to share these, working alongside other agencies.

If you have the drive and and passion to make a contribution to this dedicated team as we strive to improve the services and outcomes for young parents, this may be the opportunity for you.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the role - see attached Job Description and person specification for further details.

Working for our organisation

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country. We are, a large, complex, person-centred organisation with an excellent national and international reputation for the quality of patient care, research, education and innovation. For more information about the Trust, visit our website

Some of the benefits of working for our organisation include:

- Flexible working
- Opportunities for to be innovative/creative in the workplace
- Friendly and supportive work colleagues within the team
- Salary sacrifice schemes
- Cycle to work and travel

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities - see attached Job Description and person specification for further details.

Person specification

Other

Essential criteria
- Car driver with own car and able to travel between locations

Training and qualifications

Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife at Band 6
- Completed SSSA Training

Desirable criteria
- Evidence of recent continuous learning and development

Experience

Essential criteria
- Experience working in a community setting
- Experience of change management
- Demonstrates personal, professional and academic development
- Involvement in midwifery practice development in relation to the teenage service
- Leadership experience
- Experience of IT systems in current use at NUH

Desirable criteria
- Experience of participating or undertaking audit and research
- Demonstrates understanding of safeguarding and social care processes

Communication and relationship skills

Essential criteria
- Demonstrates awareness for caring for teenage clients
- Proven ability to work inter-professionally with all members of MDT and external agencies
- Demonstrates interpersonal, analytical and communication skills

Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with women or persons with complex social concerns

Planning and organisational skills

Essential criteria
- Able to prioritise and has effective time keeping skills
- Evidence of responding to planned and unplanned situations and taking the lead in emergencies

Analytical and judgement skills

Essential criteria
- Demonstrates knowledge and effective use of safeguarding procedures
- Able to respond prioritise and analyse complex problems and situations in relation to patient care

Desirable criteria
- Enthusiastic about contributing to developing the team to improve the service provided to young people
- Demonstrates an understanding of the impact of family dynamics on the care of the teenage client
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career

**Salary**: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

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