Band 6 Integrated Midwife

**Job Title**: Band 6 Integrated Midwife
**Hours per week**: 37.5 hours per week (Full Time and Part Time hours are available)
**Perm/Fixed Term**: Permanent
**Salary**: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
**Closing Date**: 13th December 2024
**Interview Date**: 20th December 2025
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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We are recruiting Band 6 midwives to come and join our wonderful workforce here at George Eliot.
Why join us at George Eliot? We deliver 2100 babies per year. Our service includes our community teams, ante-natal clinic, maternity assessment unit, Drayton our inpatient ward, triage, and labour suite. We have significantly developed our senior leadership team and our team of specialist midwives to deliver excellent holistic woman-centred care within a psychologically safe and excellent environment for our much-valued staff.
We offer a full induction programme and orientation to all of our areas within our maternity service. One of the team or I are more than happy to show you around our maternity unit, please do get in touch.
Come and join our friendly, professional, and caring team at the George Eliot Maternity Unit.
The successful post holder will provide ante-natal, post-natal and intrapartum care to women with low and high-risk pregnancies. They will rotate through all areas of the services as required including Continuity of Carer and Community and will be supported by the newly appointed midwifery retention support midwife.
You will also have access to the lead Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) and a team of PMAs for additional support if/when required.
We are a unit who provide personalised care for women, babies and their families ensuring a first class service and experience. The benefits include:
Dynamic and supportive management team
Forward thinking in response to new national initiatives, including the saving babies lives care bundle
Provision of preceptorship for newly qualified members of the team
Named professional midwifery advocate
On-going professional development and support
Rotation and integration within all areas of the service
Our maternity service has received significant investment over the past year which includes the addition of new specialist roles and the investment into our estate to include new theatres, the refurbishment of our inpatient maternity ward and the relocation of our triage department which is due to start this year.
If you would like to be part of this successful, flexible, friendly team, whether you are a newly qualified or experienced midwife, we would like to hear from you.
Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘ excel at patient care’ taking centre stage. An ever evolving clinically
- led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:
E ffective open communication
E x cellence and safety in everything we do
C hallenge but support
E xpect respect and dignity
L ocal health that inspires confidence

**Benefits**: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
The post holder will provide high quality integrated midwifery care in both hospital and community settings as required for mothers, babies and their families throughout pregnancy, labour, the postnatal period, this may be part of an integrated continuity of carer team as required by service needs.
Act as the woman’s advocate in promoting, and delivering the highest standard of midwifery care, ensuring all fundamentals of care are addressed, and current, relevant policies and procedures are adhered to.
Using evidence-based practice, assess the woman’s physical, psychological and spiritual needs, plan, implement and evaluate midwifery care involving the woman and her family, as appropriate.
Write reports, record observations and maintain plans of care, including electronic data storage; and other appropriate records, accurately, legibly, concisely and contemporaneously.
Monitor the woman’s condition, interpret observations and identify deviations from normal. Report and refer to relevant health professionals, carrying out midwifery interventions as needed.
Keep the woman and her family informed, when appropriate maintaining client confidentiality.
Ensure midwifery care is flexible to meet the diverse needs of women.
Undertake clinical skills, as per the trust’s Health Board Policy, relevant to role and the woman’s care.
Please note that this list is not exhaustive, for more information please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.