An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, highly motivated and enthusiastic midwife to help lead the team on our labour ward.
You must be passionate about midwifery and committed to achieving the highest standards of midwifery care for both low risk women and those with more complex health needs. You must have excellent leadership qualities, be a good communicator and have the ability to challenge to ensure that women receive women centred individualised care.
We are a small and friendly unit at Airedale providing the highest standard of maternity care for approximately 2000 women. We support births at home, in our midwifery led rooms including 2 birthing pools and in our consultant led unit, all set in a picturesque semi-rural location.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the effective management of the labour ward over the 24-hour period; you will need to demonstrate clinical expertise and compassionate leadership to the midwifery team as well as work alongside members of the multi-disciplinary team. Being responsive to a dynamic environment is a key skill, supporting all staff to meet the needs of the service. The post holder will be responsible for the deployment and supervision of staff when required to meet the needs of the maternity service.
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is an award-winning NHS hospital and community services trust providing high quality, personalised, acute, elective, specialist and community care for a population of over 200,000 people from a widespread area covering 700 square miles within Yorkshire and Lancashire. Our catchment population stretches as far as the Yorkshire Dales and the National Park in North Yorkshire, reaching areas of North Bradford and Guiseley in West Yorkshire and extending into Colne and Pendle in the East of Lancashire.
Our local population is very supportive of the Trust and our level of community engagement is a testament to this. Our communities and location strongly shape the priorities of the Trust.
We employ over 3,000 staff and have over 350 committed volunteers. On an annual basis we treat over 32,000 Inpatients, 31,000 Non-Elective patients and 155,000 Outpatients. Our Emergency Department sees approximately 70,000 patients and over 2,000 babies are born at Airedale Hospital each year.
We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services.
We want to attract staff who embrace our Right Care behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients we want to make these part of our DNA.
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