Rotational Midwife

Describe What the candidate will do : Maintain a high standard of women centred care in accordance with Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust guidelines and policies. Act as a referral agent and co-ordinator of care provision. Establishes effective multi-agency collaboration across the primary/secondary interface to meet the needs of the patients. Act as a role model for the development of clinical skills and knowledge within the department team. Maintain a safe working environment. Support the Senior Midwife in setting and monitoring standards and seek to continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care, including national standards. Promote evidence based practice. Participate in the audit and evaluation of clinical practice in the interests of promoting quality care. Provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of midwifery care for women and their babies, ensuring written records are kept to NMC standards.

Leeds Teaching Hospital Maternity Services support the birth of approximately 9000 babies per year. We are a tertiary unit with the largest Fetal Medicine Unit in the North. We also have a Quaternary Paediatric and Cardiac Surgery unit the largest Congenital Cardiac Service in the North of England and we are specialists in Prematurity Prevention for Y&H.

Our Vision and purpose.

We provide outstanding Maternity care. We put women and families at the centre of everything we do

Our Priorities

To be recognised as a leading provider of outstanding Women's healthcare.

To work collaboratively with our partners in local and regional networks, providing patient-centred care via effective integrated systems.

We prioritise the wellbeing of our teams and make sure they have the resources, training and encouragement they need to be excellent.

Leeds maternity service is continually changing and evolving to meet the needs of our population and ensure our families have a positive birthing experience. We are looking for midwives who are experienced, professional, kind and passionate about delivering patient centred care.

By joining our mulit disciplinary team you will have the opportunity to bring your wealth of knowledge and experience to our maternity service and rotate within all clinical areas of the maternity services to support professional development and maintain safe standards of midwifery care.

We are a very friendly, supportive team whom welcome innovative ways of working and new ideas and look forward to receiving your application.

This position is available externally for all Band 6 midwives.

Provisional Interview Date: week commencing 30th September 2024