Senior Midwife

**Main duties of the job**:
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced midwife to join our midwifery team at Royal Free London Trust as a band 7 leading our Labour Ward - this is a secondment role for one year.

The post holder needs to be a clinically sound, experienced midwife with excellent communication skills to lead and support midwives to realise their full potential as autonomous practitioners placing women and their families at the centre of care planning.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust serves a diverse population in North London within easy access of all modes of transport.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- NMC Part 10 register or equivalent
- Experience (placement or post grad) within both the wards and delivery suite areas

**Desirable criteria**:

- Evidence of professional updating
- Academic and/or professional/vocational training and development

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Minimum introduction to IV cannulations, suturing, scrubbing in theatre, epidural top ups, resuscitation of new born

**Desirable criteria**:

- Previous experience working as a midwife/Band 5 grade nurse. Working in an environment where ‘normality in midwifery’ is the main focus (MLC) unit. Previous experience working in a community setting.

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

- Ability to evaluate midwifery care.
- Ability to relate NMC Midwives Rules, Code of Practice, The Scope of Professional Practice, Standards for the Administration of Medicines
- Able to use appropriate language according to circumstances
- Legible, literate, grammatically accurate
- Able to work well within a team.
- Ability to use own initiative
- Ability to prioritise own workload
- Ability to manage junior staff
- Have knowledge of the Public Health Agenda
- Ability to educate parents and students
- Ability to undertake all midwifery duties within the relevant clinical area.
- IT literate
- knowledge of Clinical Governance

**Desirable criteria**:

- Knowledge of current NSF framework/healthy hospitals initiative

**Skills & Aptitudes**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Polite, reliable, honest, punctual, approachable, dependable, non-judgemental
- Ability to adapt to new working practices
- Ability to remain calm under pressure
- Ability to deal calmly and courteously with difficult people
- Adaptable and flexible approach to working within the Unit.
- Flexible working hours
- Full commitment to the job

**Desirable criteria**:

- Able to meet the practical requirements of the post. i.e. cross site shift patterns

**Values**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
- **Covid-19 Vaccination**

Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.
- ** AT* - Apprenticeship Training**. Where AT* is entered next to the job title indicates that this vacancy is for an apprenticeship role.
- If you are an **EU/EEA citizen** who does not have EU Settlement or Pre-Settled status, you will require a visa to work in the UK.** Please Note: We are unable to sponsor Band 2 to 4 as the salary does not meet the UKVI Points Based system threshold.**:

- **If you require sponsorship** for a visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check to ensure you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
- The Trust uses **electronic new starter forms** on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
- **The Trust will request a DBS** (CRB) if post involves regulated activities. The Trust is compliant with the Disclosure and Barring Service Codes of practice and the Rehabilitation of offenders act.

Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.

**Please note**: