Midwife - Antenatal Services

Core Antenatal Services Midwife working and delivering care across three Services:- Pregnancy Assessment Unit, Vaccine Service and Antenatal Clinic., We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic Midwife to join our core Antenatal Service team at Royal Derby Hospital site. As part of the Maternity Transformation programme, we are implementing the Birmingham Symptom Specific Obstetric Triage System (BSOTS) within our pregnancy assessment unit. It is a busy outpatient department with Antenatal Services Midwives working long shifts (A or B shifts) across 7 days/24hrs. You will require demonstrable experience as a registered Midwife and be able to adapt to different work environments within Antenatal Services., As an antenatal service midwife you will work in and deliver care across 3 services: Pregnancy Assessment Unit (PAU), Antenatal Clinic and the Vaccine Service. Duties will include working on the 24hr dedicated Triage phone line, triaging patients on arrival to PAU and providing ongoing care. You will also be responsible for the running of antenatal clinic, including midwife clinics and supporting to administer antenatal vaccines.

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work. In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.