Nipe Midwife

**Job overview**:
Royal Oldham Hospital are pleased to offer full and part time vacancies for enthusiastic midwives who would like to join our small team of NIPE practitioners.

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**:
This job will primarily involve undertaking NIPE for babies who meet the NCA criteria for a midwife led NIPE. You will be responsible for the reviewing maternal and neonatal history, undertaking the NIPE, recording the results and making referrals to neonatalogists and other services as required.

**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
- NIPE Qualification

**Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Good communication skills
- IT Literate
- 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.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.

**Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.**

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

- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.