Preceptorship Midwife - Band 5 Job at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham

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Job Description

Band 5

Main area
Midwife
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent: Including job shares and flexible working
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Job share
  • Flexible working
  • Compressed hours
  • Term time hours
  • Annualised hours
37.5 hours per week (Full and Part Time hrs available)
Job ref
164-4233264-16
Site
Queen's Medical Centre, City Campus and Community
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£27,055 - £32,934 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/04/2023 23:59

Job overview

Want a career with growth, progression, and empowerment? Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of UK’s largest acute teaching Trusts in England. Our Maternity Services offer a wide range of choice and support for all women and families, from midwifery-led birthing units to specialised neonatal care. This means our midwives have the unique opportunity to work o across a range of highly specialist departments – giving you the chance to develop highly sought-after skills right from the very start of your career.

When you join, you’ll receive excellent guidance and support from us as an organisation, but also from some of the most experienced and dedicated members of our Maternity Services team. From there, you’ll have the power to take your career down any branch or specialism of midwifery that inspires you.

We’re looking for compassionate, ambitious, and progressive people to join our team. With so many opportunities for self-development and progression, we need people who want to learn and inspire others. People who have a voice and want to use it to drive positive change. People who love a challenge and want to be part of transformation.

Your skills and talents as a midwife will help ensure women, babies, and families receive the unparalleled quality care they deserve. And in return, you’ll find a rewarding career full of opportunity and open doors. When you work at NUH, you are not just helping families – you are part of one too.

Main duties of the job

As a midwife, you’ll begin your journey by taking part in our accelerated preceptorship programme – guiding and supporting you on your journey to become a successful midwife.

Working across our two hospitals and within the community, you’ll have an important role to play in the care across the whole spectrum of pregnancy and birth. You will have the opportunity during your preceptorship to work in all areas including Delivery Suite, community, Ante natal services and in patient areas. .

The multi-faceted nature of our Maternity Services unit means you’ll ensure families accessing our services, receive excellent care that’s tailored to their individual needs at every stage of their journey.

As a preceptorship Midwife, you’ll be an active part of our Improvement Programme – being a voice for positive change within our multi-disciplinary team. You’ll have a say in how we implement, deliver, and evaluate our care and you will be part of the decision-making process that drives our transformation.

We believe that progression and compassion is at the heart of delivering excellent care. With the huge variety of maternity services we provide, along with our strong focus on staff wellbeing and personal development, you can be part of a Trust where you never stop learning, you always feel valued, and you build a truly rewarding, thriving career.

Working for our organisation

When you join our team, you’ll be welcomed into our family of supportive and passionate professionals – all united by the same vision, ambitions, and goals.

We’re one of the UK’s largest acute teaching Trusts and our exceptional range of patient care, teaching, research, and regional tertiary services means that midwives have endless opportunities to enhance their skills at every stage of their career.

We’re at the forefront of the latest research, developments, and innovation in how midwifery is delivered, thanks to our close links with the University of Nottingham and University of Derby and participation in research trials.

We provide Maternity Services for approximately 8000births annually.. We’re also on an improvement and transformation journey which you can find out more about here: Maternity | NUH [nuh.nhs.uk].

We offer midwives a range of benefits, including:

  • Travel discounts with local transport operators.
  • NHS pension.
  • Childcare vouchers.
  • Wide range of staff networks.
  • Opportunities to work closely with Maternity Voices Partnership.
  • Nationally recognised staff wellbeing programme.
  • Individual and group restorative sessions from PMAs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read the Job Description and Person Specification documents which can be downloaded as PDFs at the end of this page for further information.

We’ve also listed the key responsibilities for preceptorship Midwives below to give you a more detailed insight into the role.

Communication and collaboration

  • Be a powerful voice – promoting excellent and effective patient care, participating in decision-making relating to women-centred care, driving transformation and change when you see an opportunity to do so, and acting as an advocate for women and those accessing our services
  • Be a great listener – engaging with any feedback we receive from those accessing our services, ensuring confidentiality in everything you do, learning from every new experience and adapting to new styles of working

Clinical Care

  • Be an advocate – for women and those accessing our services, for colleagues who deliver excellent care and who deserve recognition, and for the Trust – working within our guidelines, policies, procedures, and ethical and legal frameworks.
  • Be effective – in how you manage and prioritise your time, by ensuring resources are being used in the most efficient way across the team, by continuously assessing and evaluating how we deliver care, and by developing your skills in areas that you feel need the most focus

Personal and Professional Conduct

  • Be an inspiration – both on the ward and within the wider multi-disciplinary team. Be a role model for junior staff and students. Be responsible for your personal development and identify your short and long term goals. Encourage the development of others so that no one gets left behind, and we continue to work collaboratively at every level.
  • Be professional – by always adhering to Health and Safety legislation, administration and storage of drugs, clinical incident reporting, infection control, child protection and safeguarding, and safekeeping of patient property.

Research and Education

  • Be curious – by taking part in clinical audits and trials to improve patient care. By using, developing, and sharing evidence based practice to carry out care competently and efficiently. And by participating in the evaluation of our education programmes.
  • Be an educator – mentoring both qualitied and unqualified staff, including student midwives. Help people develop their leadership and supervision skills and complete any documentation required when taking on the role of mentor. Assist in the orientation of new staff or Return to Practice midwives where you will act as a preceptor.

Person specification

Behaviours & Values

Essential criteria

  • Sets and achieves high standards for own behaviour and personal presentation
  • Excellent communication skills

Desirable criteria

  • Able to respond to problem situations and to ensure that effective escalation is followed
  • Demonstrates an ability to organise own work schedule managing time effectively and displays initiative
  • Demonstrate basic IT skills using word, excel and power point

Experience & knowledge

Essential criteria

  • Student midwife due to qualify or band 5 UK NMC registered midwife

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

  • Demonstrate an ability to assess, plan, prioritise and evaluate work
  • Able to respond to problem situations and to ensure that effective escalation is followed
  • Demonstrates an ability to organise own work schedule, managing time effectively and displays initiative
  • Demonstrates effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrate basic IT skills using word, excel and powerpoint

Qualifications

Essential criteria

  • Registered Midwife/Student Midwife

Desirable criteria

  • Diploma or degree

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Bring your whole self to work for us at NUH. We love diversity and we value your difference, your unique skills, knowledge and experience. Becoming one of our people may realise your potential, helping us to raise our performance in delivering world class healthcare to the diverse patient populations we serve.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are currently under-represented at NUH.

Covid-19 vaccination: remains the best way to protect yourself, family, colleagues and our patients/service users from the Covid-19 virus. We continue to encourage our current and potential colleagues to get vaccinated. For helpful advice and information about the Covid-19 vaccination and how to access visit: https://nottsccg.nhs.uk/covid-19/covid-19-vaccinations/

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

Easy read application: if you have a disability and find it difficult to complete our online application form, you can apply via our easy read application which you can find on the intranet https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/easy-read-job-application

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

Skilled Workers Visa: We welcome applications from individuals who require a skilled worker visa in line with the Home Office regulations. NON-UK/NON SETTLED candidates may not be appointed, if a suitably qualified and skilled UK/SETTLED candidate is successful at interview stage as it is unlikely that the Trust is able to satisfy the Home Office Visa requirements

ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate all ID and right to work documentation such as passports, visa’s and driving license through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

  • Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
  • Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£41.90 for enhanced and £21.90 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.

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