Midwife

at  Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking to recruit innovative midwives who are passionate about providing quality care to birthing families and are dedicated to providing evidence based care.
Here in Oxfordshire, we offer women and healthcare professionals a unique set up of our Maternity Services where around 7500 babies are born annually. We have 4 stand-alone Midwifery Led Birth units within the county based at Banbury, Chipping Norton, Wantage and Wallingford as well as offering home births to all areas. There is also an integrated birth unit where around 10% of birthing people choose to go in labour. As a large Tertiary hospital, the John Radcliffe offers a large Delivery Suite with an en-suite birthing pool room, 3 Maternity theatres and a specific Maternity Recovery Ward.
This advert is for newly qualified midwives and existing band 5/band 6 midwives wishing to join both our hospital and community teams.
Newly qualified midwives will participate in a 12-18 month preceptorship program designed by our team of Practice Development midwives.
The post is open to precepted midwives who will have NMC registration in the next 6 months.
Please Note: This job is not eligible for overseas sponsorship or for international educated midwives without a current full NMC Pin or new to midwifery practice in the UK.
Working as a midwifery practitioner to: Ø Provide continuity of care, advice and support throughout pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period. Be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care within the practice area and to provide and maintain high standards of midwifery care.
Teach, motivate and encourage high standards of practice whilst furthering personal knowledge and experience. Accept responsibility for own personal and professional development .
To contribute to the management of the practice area by accepting delegated responsibility from senior colleagues.
Contribute to the learning environment of the practice area to enable students and new members of the practice area team to be supported.
Ensure all statutory and non-statutory rules and regulations are complied with. Assist in promoting Clinical Risk Management within the practice area.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel .
Working as a midwifery practitioner to. Provide continuity of care, advice and support throughout pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period.
Be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care within the practice area and to provide and maintain high standards of midwifery care.
Teach, motivate and encourage high standards of practice whilst furthering personal knowledge and experience.
Accept responsibility for own personal and professional development.
To contribute to the management of the practice area by accepting delegated responsibility from senior colleagues.
Contribute to the learning environment of the practice area to enable students and new members of the practice area team to be supported.
Ensure all statutory and non-statutory rules and regulations are complied with. Assist in promoting Clinical Risk Management within the practice area.
Working as a midwife the post-holder will:Professional/Clinical Practice:
Fulfil the role of midwife, as defined by the World Health Organisation and the NMC

Midwives Rules and Code of Practice.

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate midwifery care, to a defined group of women

taking into account the standards and philosophies of the county-wide Maternity Services.

• Accurately document all care given.
• Provide clinical supervision and support to less experienced midwives and maternity care

assistants.

• Have ability and skills to organise own workload
• Maintain awareness of current advances and changes in practice
• Develop clinical expertise through experience and by attending appropriate courses, study

days and discussion groups etc.

• Provide evidence of achieving the consolidation of clinical skills and the development of

additional practice skills and knowledge

• Participate in and contribute to programmes of care to develop parenting skills and

knowledge

• Evaluate practice by utilising of evidence based practice and participating in research

With support of a senior colleague act as advocate for women and their families to ensure

appropriate care.

• Participate, where appropriate, in the on-call rota for the service.
• Develop ability to take charge on a shift by shift basis.
• Be able to cannulate and suture.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION & RESEARCH:

• Act as a supervisor to Maternity Support Workers and undergraduate students.
• Act as a preceptor
• Supervise Maternity Support Workers and help in the identification of their training

needs.

• Define own educational and development needs and to discuss these at appraisal.
• Participate in the setting of standards of care using valid evidence-based practice.
• Keep up to date with professional issues that influence midwives’ practice relating to

their area of clinical practice, management education and research.

• Contribute towards the continuing development of professional practice within the

clinical area embracing new ideas and changes for the benefit of women and their

families.

• Inform the ward manager/team leader if there are insufficient resources available to

provide safe care.

• Demonstrate the ability to record data on the maternity system and to be able to retrieve

data results from OUHFT information systems.

• Accept responsibility for own personal and professional growth and maintaining a record

of professional development experiences.

• Use the Trust ELMS Revalidation tool in preparation for revalidation.
• Participate in formal and informal review of own performance with your preceptor, team

leader, ward manager and peer group.

• Contribute towards the collection of data for local, regional or national reports.

Please refer the Job description for details