Job Description
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to offer newly qualified midwives an exciting opportunity to join our maternity team.
MSEFT is now one of the largest Trusts in the country. As a fully established, merged trust we are extremely proud of the maternity services across MSE. Our sites include Southend, Basildon and Broomfield Hospital.
Providing high quality patient care, a positive experience for both Women and their families and being an excellent, compassionate and respectful workforce is at the centre of our service.
Our maternity units are both modern and well equipped which helps contribute to development and progression of our midwives.
Facts/Achievements
- One of the largest Trust’s in the country serving a population of 1.2 million people.
- Our Maternity units have around 12,000 births a year
- Won the Management Award 2019 for our preceptorship programme at the London Maternity and Midwifery Festival
- A number of midwives at MSE were awarded the CMO silver Award, which is the equivalent of a midwifery OBE
- A supportive Occupational Health and Wellbeing Team to support all staff across MSE.
You could help shape the future of our midwives here at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
Have you recently qualified as Midwife or due to qualify in 2023?
Here at Mid and South Essex we are looking for a number of compassionate newly qualified Band 5 midwives to work in our maternity departments at Basildon Hospital.
Band 5 Midwives will undertake an excellent, robust and award winning preceptorship programme over 12 - 18 months which will provide you with continuous support and professional development in which you require to ensure you have the skills and qualities embedded to progress into a professional and confident band 6 midwife.
During the preceptorship programme you will be required to assess, plan and deliver midwifery care.
Upon your completion of the preceptorship programme, you will be required to work in all areas of the service which include obstetric theatre and the community across all three sites if necessary.
You will be working in collaboration with other multidisciplinary professionals enhancing and promoting the health and wellbeing of mothers and neonates in line with local and national standards relating to maternity care and referrals as appropriate.
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country. Comprising of three main sites at Broomfield in Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend we are ‘One Team, Working Together’, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers. So, we’re very happy that you have chosen to join us!
We not only offer you an excellent working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.
As a fully established, merged organisation we have worked closely with our patients, staff and the wider community on our new trust values which guide us to be Excellent, Compassionate and Respectful in everything we do here at MSE.
Main Duties
- To enable woman to remain the focus of care and as her advocate to encourage her to participate in
her care plans based on good communication and evidence – based information.
- Assess, plan and deliver total midwifery care for a caseload of women within the community, prioritising workload and management of time.
- To be competent to work within a team to deliver care based on the needs of women to maintain continuity.
- To identify, plan and implement care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team in relation to families with complex psycho-social needs e.g. domestic violence, and child protection.
- To maintain accurate and contemporaneous records on the women and babies care at all times, including all discussions on care and information given. Ensuring the safekeeping and storage of all confidential materials
- To maintain competencies in dealing with emergencies and high-risk situations, and to adapt these
according to the environment, i.e. community/hospital.
- To make decisions in the absence of immediate medical aid.
- To act as mentor and/or preceptor, supporting student nurses, midwives, medical students and
- Return to Practice Midwives, during their training to co-ordinate and liaise with multidisciplinary agencies to give care to women and their families with
special needs e.g. psychiatric, social problems, disability.
- To be competent with skills that will enhance care, e.g. counselling families with social needs. This will include participating in debriefing women on discharge home from the antenatal and postnatal
wards.
- To provide basic counselling and support for women in relation to pre- natal screening, bereavement and other special needs liaising with specialist services as necessary.
- To measure the effect of midwifery care by participating in the quality assurance cycle, including the development of practice guidelines, protocols, policies and clinical audit.
To be proactive with new ideas and the introduction of current research findings to clinical practice.
- To contribute to meeting high standards of care, including the reporting of untoward incidents and
ensuring compliance with the Risk Management Strategy.
- To take responsibility for the storage and administration of drugs according to the Midwives Rules and Standards (2004)