Band 6 Midwife

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and inspirational midwife to join our team. Midwives are supported and enabled to practice in the optimal environments for all elements of midwifery care for all women (and their families) to enjoy a normal birth experience. You should be an experienced midwife, able to provide antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care and be able to work flexibly including nights and over weekends. You will provide a full range of health education, social care and advice to women, liaising with multi-disciplinary/agency groups are to continually improve maternity care for childbearing women and their families, being responsive to the needs of the women and obtain user views as appropriate. Supporting student midwives and junior members of staff as we guide them through their professional development, and receiving excellent senior midwife support to ensure you fulfil your own potential. We understand that that happy fulfilled staff will offer their best, and we aim to achieve this through development within a supportive team approach. The successful applicants will receive a comprehensive orientation programme and are assured that they will receive appropriate support. This role requires shift work, including night duty. For community roles the use of a car is helpful.

Are you looking for a new challenge?

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

We are a progressive unit offering personal and professional development opportunities, and opportunities to be involved in Quality Improvement projects. So why should you work for us?

• Our unit is progressing with BFI accreditation for 2022, with an ambition to sustain level 3 and go for gold
• Staff are supported on Leadership programmes including Mary Seacole, along with clinical based programmes including High Dependency, NIPE and Professional Midwifery Advocates.
• Staff are supported on development programmes working toward B7 leadership roles.
• Staff supported to complete Return to Practice (RtP) programme.
• DAISY international recognition award scheme .
• Collaborative support from a dedicated team of midwives (clinical tutors) employed by the Trust and University of Bedford.
• A range of midwife specialist roles which include: Infant feeding, practice development, diabetes, clinical educators, fetal monitoring, perinatal mental health, audit and guidelines, bereavement and patient experience.