Band 5 / 6 Midwife

Maintain a high standard of woman focused care in accordance with Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures across all clinical areas as required. Provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of maternity care for women ensuring accurate documentation is kept. Maintain a safe and clean working environment. Communicate with women and their partners to ensure they have access to appropriate information. Promote and maintain positive relationships between all staff involved in the care of the woman. Act in accordance with the Nursing and midwifery Council Code of Conduct Undertake duties on different wards/departments as and when required by service demands.

If you are a passionate midwife with excellent communication skills and a drive to provide high quality care to women please apply to join our multi professional maternity team.

Kingston Hospital is looking for caring, enthusiastic, and talented midwives to join our team. We have opportunities for junior (Band 5) and senior midwives (Band 6) to join our Maternity Team. Kingston Maternity is a friendly, welcoming and supportive unit, and a popular choice for our local population, caring for around 4600 birthing people per annum. We are proud to support a full range of birth options including our established birth centre and home birth teams. Our service is funded to a ratio of 1 midwife to 22.3 women, enabling high quality, midwifery focused care to be provided. The birth centre team are skilled in aromatherapy, and biomechanics and the rooms have birthing couches and pools. We promote a philosophy of holistic, woman-centred care in all birthing areas., Kingston is proud of its strong multi-disciplinary (MDT) culture. We provide a well evaluated, in-house MDT programme and staff have the opportunity to attend external study days or enrol for academic modules at our local higher education institutes., Kingston and Richmond Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country - close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames. The most recent National Maternity Survey has rated Kingston as one of the top 5 best performing maternity services within London. The CQC rated Kingston Hospital's Maternity Service as 'good' in 2022 and the Trust 'outstanding' in 2019, with staff positive about the hospital and the services they were able to offer women and their families. Leadership is strong and well respected and there is a culture of learning and a desire to improve the service. Trust Values

• Compassionate
• Inclusive
• Collaborative
• Inspiring