Job Description
Retention and Recruitment Midwife (12 month Secondment)
Division: Planned Care
Care Group: Maternity
Band: 7
Salary: £41,659 - £47,672 per annum
Interview Date: TBA
We are recruiting for aRetention and Recruitment Midwifewho shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
An exciting opportunity has risen for an experienced and enthusiastic midwife with the passion to teach to join the Education team at MFT as a full time secondment. As aRetention and Recruitment Midwife,your role will be to support clinical skills and staff training in both community and the inpatient settings.
Our values areBold,Every Person Counts,Sharing and Open andTogether. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
You will work collaboratively with the wider maternity education team to enable appropriate education support for the changing role for the midwives.
Main Duties of the Job:
Be highly visible in the clinical area and act as a resource for both staff and women in our care. Promoting high standards of care through role modelling the demonstration of clinical expertise, leadership and professionalism.
To work clinically alongside midwives where support is required across the organisation, supporting individualised midwives to develop their practice.
To be competent in al clinical skills including suturing, cannulation, CTG Interpretation, water birth and be able to demonstrate these skills by teaching others.
To work effectively as part of the wider multidisciplinary team encouraging and supporting other health care professionals in the promotion and maintenance of an effective learning environment.