Job Description

Provide direct midwifery care within a safe environment, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating midwifery care.

Are you a dynamic, passionate midwife looking to be supported by an amazing team of midwives? ULHT maternity is striving towards excellence, come along to join us on our journey.

ULHT provides intrapartum care for approximately 5,500 women and their families across two consultant led sites working together closely in order to provide safe effective care for women and their families. Our local community is multicultural with a diverse mix of health needs.

The Midwives work within the unit rotating around each of the areas to gain and maintain essential experience in all aspects of maternity care. The care will include ante natal care, intrapartum care and postnatal care. The successful Band 5 candidates will undertake a minimum 12 month preceptorship training package to help them with the transition between being a student and being a qualified member of the team. While the successful band 6 candidates will receive an induction period to allow rotation within the department.

This is a substantive / fixed term opportunity. Part time and full time hours will be considered.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

What should you do next?

Have a look at the job description and if you like what you see then apply today. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. your NHS needs you!!!

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