Band 6 Midwife

UHB are excited to offer an amazing opportunity for midwives to join our teams on the Midwifery Led Units. We are seeking midwives who are passionate about physiological birth and providing exemplary low risk care to women and their babies.

We are looking to appoint self-motivated, enthusiastic, dynamic Registered Midwives. Facilitating and supporting women's birthplace choices and providing woman centred care is at the heart of our philosophy.

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 babies and their families.

If you are passionate and driven to provide high quality midwife- led care, we look forward to hearing from you., The post holder will practice as a midwife within the maternity services in University Hospitals Birmingham working day duty, night duty, weekend and bank holidays and participate in on call when working in the community and continuity of care teams. The post holder will work in all areas of maternity service.

To work as an autonomous, accountable and experienced practitioner and a lead professional in the provision of care to women and their families.

To provide all relevant forms of specialised programmes of care and advice to women and their families, including responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period.

To practice in any area in maternity services.

To take regular charge of a ward area/clinical case load/equivalent sphere of practice in the absence of the person with continuing responsibility.

The post-holder is expected to supervise junior staff and to be able to teach qualified and unqualified staff, including basic and/or post-basic students.

To provide and promote low risk physiological birth with women centred care at the forefront.

To recognise deviations of normality and communicate with the wider team to facilitate transfer of care to consultant led care.

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

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