Job Description

Band 6 Midwifery Led Unit Midwife

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The closing date is 13th May 2025

Job summary

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UHB are excited to offer an amazing opportunity for midwives to join our teams on our Midwifery Led Units. We are seeking Band 6 Midwives who are passionate about supporting physiological labour/birth and providing exemplary low risk care to women/birthing people and their babies.


We are looking to appoint self-motivated, enthusiastic, dynamic Registered Midwives. Facilitating and supporting our population birthplace choices, providing woman/person centred care is at the heart of our philosophy. There will be opportunities to work cross-site on both the Midwife Led Units at Heartlands and Good Hope Hospitals.


Being led by a supportive management team, we can offer excellent opportunities for further career development in line with NHS England requirements. Supporting and implementing the vision of both Better Births and the Three-year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services thus ensuring the delivery of safe, personalised, and equitable care for women/birthing people, babies and their families.


If you are passionate and driven to provide high quality midwife- led care and would like to join our dynamic and enthusiastic team, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn. Our plans are ambitious - why not come and be a part of our journey!


We very much look forward to hearing from you!

Main duties, tasks & skills required

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The post holder will practice as a midwife within the maternity services in University Hospitals Birmingham, working day duty, night duty/weekends/bank holidays


The post holder will work as an autonomous, accountable and experienced practitioner, providing low risk antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care


To work within a flexible manner that allows you to meet the individualised needs of the women for whom you are the known/lead midwife and to provide support to team members if necessary


Strong communication skills will be integral to your role within your team, the wider maternity service and key workers, both internal and external to the organisation


Act as a professional lead for women, promoting the natural physiological birthing process with recognition of deviations and escalation as required


To maintain a professional, approachable disposition always with all members of staff, patients and their visitors


Deliver culturally competent midwifery care that is sensitive, kind, and empathetic


To maintain clinical skills and competencies including adult and neonatal resuscitation, suturing, and venepuncture as appropriate


As a visible clinical midwife promote teamwork within a multi professional environment. Ensuring care is aligned to the professional values of care, compassion, and respect


Responsible for carrying out clinical practice within designated clinical area, ensuring that high quality current evidenced based midwifery care underpins all actions and interactions with women

About us

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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job description

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Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached

Person specification

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Qualifications

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Essential

Registered Midwife on part 2 of the NMC Professional register.

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Experience

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Essential

Completed Preceptorship Programme Return to midwifery practice Ability to work autonomously within professional and Trust guidelines Able to take the professional lead in caring for low-risk women Knowledge of needs of high and low risk women and neonates Knowledge of child protection issues and when to act Knowledge to competently perform and interpret fetal heart auscultation, cardiotocography Knowledge to safely use medical devices and other equipment required for practice Knowledge of legal and ethical principles in midwifery for choice, consent, client autonomy Knowledge to safely manage epidurals in labour Understanding of risk management Able to enter data on computer for notification of births, and patient records Able to collect data for statistics audit Able to use computer package to generate growth charts

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Additional Criteria

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Essential

Use appropriate moving and handling techniques antenatally, when assisting women during their chosen position, assisting women in giving birth, post operatively, for postnatal care and whilst assisting with breast feeding Manual dexterity and good hand eye co-ordination for vaginal examination, venepuncture, cannulation, performing episiotomy, suturing, various injections Possess good written communication skill to maintain clear, concise contemporaneous records Able to write reports and format policies Effective customer care skills Able to speak, receive and issue instructions in English without risk of misunderstanding Be able to communicate effectively via telephone, individual or within group discussion Ability to proficiently utilise interpreters Ability to sensitively communicate distressing information and discuss sensitive issues (i.e., Intra Uterine death, still birth, fetal abnormality, child protection issues) Communicate effectively, and offer support to aggressive and distressed women/family members To communicate effectively with multidisciplinary team and outside agencies Take opportunities to impart knowledge at an appropriate level for health promotion, parent education and mentoring students and junior midwives Have a high level of commitment, motivation, innovation and initiative Ability to prioritise Must be willing to work cross site and to support all clinical areas in times of high acuity and escalation. Must be able to work shifts including weekends, Bank Holidays etc.

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.


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Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.


From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.


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UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.


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For help with your application, contact:

Liz Hope


liz.hope@uhb.nhs.uk


01214247785


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Pay scheme

Agenda for Change


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Band

Band 6


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Salary

37338.00 to 44962.00 Yearly
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Contract

Permanent


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Working pattern

Full-Time, Flexible Working


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Reference number

304-9001301


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Job locations

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH


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Attachments

Band 6 JD PS.pdf - 456KB Opens in a new window