Registered Midwife Core Maternity Triage and Antenatal Unit

Registered Midwife Core Maternity Triage and Antenatal Day Unit

To provide direct inpatient midwifery care within a safe environment, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating midwifery care to ensure the safety of women, birthing people and their babies.

We are committed to the continual professional development of midwives within our Trust and run an innovative and well
-structured training programme that supports and enhances midwifery skills to project the most recent evidence
-based care. We also currently offer a variety of external courses to assist with ongoing continual professional development that pique the interest of midwives including:
Aromatherapy, Biomechanics of birth, Maternity critical care, Professional Midwifery Advocates (PMA), Physiological breech birth, Hypnotherapy and many more. We support the wellbeing of staff through the establishment and dedication of a Professional Midwifery Advocacy Service and the additional benefits listed below.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced band 6 midwife to join Stockport NHS Foundation Trust's maternity services. The successful postholder will have the opportunity to develop their skills in a variety of maternity areas including high risk and low risk intrapartum care, maternity triage and antenatal and postnatal inpatient services. At Stockport NHS Foundation Trust we pride ourselves on providing excellent quality care within a supportive, friendly and dynamic team.

We currently provide intrapartum inpatient services within two environments:
Our birth centre has three pool rooms and a further additional birthing room, all designed to provide a relaxing environment for birth. Our recently redecorated delivery suite promotes a safe yet serene environment and consists of one pool room and a further eight delivery rooms, with a specialist bereavement suite also available. We also have a twenty-eight bed mixed antenatal and postnatal ward that promotes a restful recovery post birth.

The maternity triage department is co-located with our antenatal day unit and successfully promotes the use of the Birmingham Symptom Specific Obstetric Triage System to promote safe standards of care. Wherever you work within our unit, we are a friendly, patient-focused team and cement the establishment of our Trust Values in all aspects of care:
We Care, We Respect, We Listen.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers. Our mission is to make a difference every day.

Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you. We recognise that flexible working is important.

We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service. The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice

Detailed Job description and Main Responsibilities

The successful candidate should :

• Have experience working in Maternity Triage and using BSOTs or equivalent.
• Be responsible in prioritising, assessing, planning implementing and evaluating in all relevant aspects of midwifery care to an agreed and expected high standard
• Ensure there is effective and sensitive communication between the women, babies and their families and with all the MDT
• Supports the Ward Manager/Team Leader in monitoring the action of others to whom responsibility for patient has been delegated
• Participate in meetings in which broad professional and service issues are discussed
• Act as a resource for colleagues so that expert knowledge is always available
• Ensure that patient documentation is appropriate, accountable and defensible in accordance with Trust and NMC policies, disseminating all relevant changes in the patients condition to the MDT
• Be competent in clinical skills to enable delivery of high quality midwifery care within the service
• Assist in the organisation and management of multi-professional care for women and…