Job Description
Band 6 Midwives
We have an exciting opportunity for midwives passionate about physiological birth to join our fabulous maternity team.
Kingston Maternity Services remain committed to implementing the recommendations of The National Maternity Review - Better Births: Improving outcomes of maternity services in England. Continuity of Carer remains an important evidence-based way of improving outcomes and experience for women and birthing people using our services. We are continuing to role out continuity of carer models by implementing geographical community-based teams. We currently have 35% of women booked on Continuity of Carer pathways and aim for this to increase in the next year. Each team will provide an integrated model of continuity achieved through midwives working both in the hospital and community settings. This will enable midwives to be highly skilled in all areas of midwifery practice. Full orientation and support will be provided, and midwives will work the majority of their time in the hospital setting with some supported community shifts.
Kingston Maternity is a popular service with approximately 4600 births per annum, and approximately 18% of these occur on the Birth Centre. The most recent National Maternity Survey in 202 rated Kingston in theTop 5best performing maternity services in London.
Our service is funded to a ratio of 1 midwife to 24 women, enabling high quality midwifery focused care to be provided.
Some of the main duties of the job are to provide woman and babies with high quality, safe midwifery care during childbirth. The care will be evidence based and holistic in meeting women’s needs in a variety of practice settings. In the absence of a Band 7 Team Leader, lead the team and manage the workload either in the community or in the unit.
Kingston maternity is proud of its strong multi-disciplinary (MDT) culture. We provide a well evaluated, in-house MDT programmes and staff have the opportunity to attend external study days or enrol for academic modules at our local higher education institutes.
Kingston Hospital - First Acute Trust in London to be rated Outstanding by CQC for Overall Quality and Leadership
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country – close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames. We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.
We employ 3,300+ staff who proudly and efficiently support over 350,000 people locally through a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and we have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare, particularly in 'patient-focused' care, day surgery and maternity services.
Health and Wellbeing & Staff Benefits
The Trust understands that benefits go beyond just financial rewards and offers a wide range of benefits that recognise staff contribution, provide opportunities for career development and offer initiatives to promote a healthy work-life balance.
- Our Health Heroes Awards 2018 – Staff Retention and Wellbeing Employer of the Year.
- HPMA Vivup Award for Well Being 2019.
Trust Values
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has four key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them.
They are:
Caring, Safe, Responsible, Value Each Other, Inspiring.
Please see the job description and essential criteria before making your application.
Please be aware that this post requires you to work a mixture of day and night shifts, weekends and bank holidays.
If you are a passionate midwife with excellent communication skills and a drive to provide high quality midwife-led care to women, we are waiting to hear from you.