Rotational Midwife Job Vacancy in South Tyneside, England, UK

Job summary

Would you like the exciting opportunity to work within an enthusiastic, motivated and supportive team?

This is your chance to be a part of our flexible and dynamic team, providing women centred care in a number of settings to enable them to achieve their desired birthing experience.

We offer many exciting opportunities that enable you to develop your skills in different areas of midwifery. We have a fabulous co-located Midwifery Led Unit at St Michael’s Hospital and a Midwifery Led Unit at our Weston Hospital. Here we provide exceptional care for low risk women. We also have well established Community Midwifery Teams that support low risk women who choose a home birth.

To enable you to maintain all areas of your midwifery knowledge and skills we offer rotational posts, giving you the opportunity to work as part of our team on the Ante/Postnatal Ward, Central Delivery Suite, Midwifery Led Units and our Transitional Care Unit. There is also the opportunity to work in our Antenatal Clinic, Day Assessment Unit and Fetal Medicine Unit.

Our rotational posts include the opportunity to work within the traditional community midwifery model across UHBWcommunity settings or within one of our established Continuity of Carer teams.

We are proud to be implementing further continuity of carer teams, in addition to those that are already embedded and working brilliantly across our area.

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Main duties of the job

• Be able to demonstrate leadership and management skills
• Be flexible with a caring attitude, rotating throughout the maternity departments and to be a part of the on-call service we provide.
• Have excellent and extended clinical skills
• Be able to develop their clinical skills and participate in continuing their professional development.
• Have experience in solving problems and using their initiative.
• Have the ability to take the lead when caring for women and their babies, identifying any deterioration from normal and escalating appropriately.
• Be able to communicate and work together in a multidisciplinary team.

To be considered for this role you must hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a car.

About us

We are the major tertiary Fetal Medicine Unit for the South West providing highly specialist care for women and their babies.

As a service, we are passionate about supporting midwives ongoing professional development. We have an outstanding practice development team who will support you during your supernumerary period, provide a comprehensive orientation programme, and a practice development facilitator who will work one to one with you in practice to ensure a smooth transition to our unit. We are also delighted to have a Diversity Inclusion PEF who leads and supports on initiative and education to promote equality, diversity and human rights.

As a unit we are proud to acknowledge the importance of personal development, and the support and guidance required in enabling self-confidence and belief to strive towards the next goal. We focus on providing the opportunity to gain appropriate experience to enable progression to band 7. We offer band 7 secondment posts within the unit, where you will feel supported and guided by familiar colleagues that you would have built a rapport with through your band 6 experience.