Midwife Opportunity at University Hospitals Birmingham
4 weeks ago
We are seeking a skilled midwife to join our team at University Hospitals Birmingham, providing exceptional care to women and their babies in our Midwifery Led Units.
About the RoleThis is an exciting opportunity for a midwife to work in a supportive environment, led by a management team that prioritizes career development and growth. As a midwife in our team, you will be responsible for providing low-risk care to women and their babies, working autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
You will have the opportunity to develop your skills and expertise in physiological birth, working with a team of experienced midwives who are passionate about providing high-quality care.
Key Responsibilities- Practice as a midwife within the maternity services, working day duty, night duty, weekend, and bank holidays
- Participate in on-call when working in the community and continuity of care teams
- Provide low-risk care to women and their babies, working autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Supervise junior staff and teach qualified and unqualified staff, including basic and/or post-basic students
- Recognize deviations of normality and communicate with the wider team to facilitate transfer of care to consultant-led care
- Registered Midwife on part 2 of the NMC Professional register
- Completion of pre or post-registration midwifery programme
- Ability to work autonomously within professional and Trust guidelines
- Able to take the professional lead in caring for low-risk women
- Knowledge of needs of high and low-risk women and neonates
- Knowledge of child protection issues and when to take action
- Knowledge to competently perform and interpret fetal heart auscultation, cardiotocography
- Knowledge to safely use medical devices and other equipment required for practice
- Knowledge of legal and ethical principles in midwifery for choice, consent, client autonomy
- Knowledge to safely manage epidurals in labour
- Understanding of risk management
- Able to enter data on computer for notification of births, and patient records
- Able to collect data for statistics audit
- Able to use computer package to generate growth charts
- Use appropriate moving and handling techniques antenatally, when assisting women during their chosen position, assisting women in giving birth, post-operatively, for postnatal care, and whilst assisting with breastfeeding
- Manual dexterity and good hand-eye coordination for vaginal examination, venepuncture, cannulation, performing episiotomy, suturing, various injections
- Good written communication skills to maintain clear, concise contemporaneous records
- Able to write reports and format policies
- Effective customer care skills
- Able to speak, receive, and issue instructions in English without risk of misunderstanding
- Ability to proficiently utilize interpreters
- Ability to sensitively communicate distressing information and discuss sensitive issues (i.e., intrauterine death, stillbirth, fetal abnormality, child protection issues)
- Communicate effectively and offer support to aggressive and distressed women/family members
- Take opportunities to impart knowledge at an appropriate level for health promotion, parent education, and mentoring students and junior midwives
- Have a high level of commitment, motivation, innovation, and initiative
- Ability to prioritize
- Must be willing to work cross-site and to support all clinical areas in times of high acuity and escalation
- Must be able to work shifts, including weekends, Bank Holidays, etc.
- Able to ask for support
- Good problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Have confidence to be an effective advocate for women
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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