Job overview

The maternal medicine midwife will provide specialist, high quality, effective midwifery care to women and birthing people with complex medical conditions during the antenatal period. The post holder will work both autonomously and collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to promote safe individualised care.

This role involves coordinating care pathways  and liaising with the appropriate medical or midwifery team across both sites ( Bedford and Luton & Dunstable).

The band 7 midwife will also be responsible for working with the obstetric and medical teams to review midwifery care on those women/birthing people who are being managed outside of maternity.

The successful candidate will contribute to the development of the maternal medicine service across both sites to ensure care is delivered in line with national and local polices and professional standards. 

Main duties of the job

To ensure communication and information sharing systems supports access to high quality consultation between professionals and referral from one level of care to another as appropriate.

 Actively seek opportunities for coproduction with services users with lived experience to develop routine information and advice for women and ensure these are culturally sensitive. Promote service user engagement from those with complex social factors.

Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for women and their families.

The post holder is responsible for ensuring accurate and timely records are kept within the Trust Electronic Health Records System, which comply with the Trust policy and relevant professional bodies’ guidance (Nursing and Midwifery Council), reporting on any issues as appropriate. 

The post holder is responsible for ensuring they comply with current good practice informing/updating all members of the multi-disciplinary team, their colleagues, women and appropriate others, of changes in care plans. 

The post holder is responsible for ensuring that they clearly communicate with women, actively listen to establish an understanding of the needs of the service user.

Act as an ambassador for the Trust and develop external networks ensuring continuous development and improvement of internal systems and clinical practice.

 

Working for our organisation

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton.  Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job

It is an exciting time to join the newly formed Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

 

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.