Band 6 Integrated Midwife

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. There are a number of vacancies available -- full time, part time, permanent and fixed term/secondment. 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 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.,

• The post holder will practice as a midwife within the maternity services in University Hospitals Birmingham, working day duty, night duty/ weekends/ bank holidays.
• The post holder will work as an autonomous, accountable and experienced practitioner, providing low risk antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care.
• To work within a flexible manner that allows you to meet the individualised needs of the women for whom you are the known or lead midwife and to provide support to team members if necessary.
• Strong communication skills will be integral to your role within your team, the wider maternity service and key workers, both internal and external to the organisation.
• Act as the professional lead for women, promoting the normal birthing process.
• To maintain a professional, approachable disposition at all times with all members of staff, patients and their visitors
• Deliver culturally competent midwifery care that is sensitive, kind, and empathetic.
• To maintain clinical skills and competencies including adult and neonatal resuscitation, suturing, and venepuncture as appropriate
• As a visible clinical midwife promote teamwork within a multi professional environment. Ensuring care is aligned to the professional values of care, compassion, and respect.
• Responsible for carrying out clinical practice within designated clinical area, ensuring that high quality current evidenced based midwifery care underpins all actions and interactions with women.
  
  University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.