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Job summary

Main area
Maternity
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
337-NP-6406DG-C
Employer
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Northwick Park/Central Middlesex
Town
Harrow
Salary
£40,701 - £48,054 Per Annum inc HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/05/2024 23:59

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Birth Centre Midwife

Band 6

Careers at #LNWH

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

  • Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
  • St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
  • Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
  • Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.  

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH

Find out more about Our HEART values

Find out more about our Trust Staff Benefits

Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy

We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.

Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.

  • H onesty
  • E quity
  • A ccountability
  • R espect
  • T eamwork

These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.

LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.  If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Job overview

We are excited to announce the summer opening of our newly renovated birth centre. Are you a midwife with passion and dedication to work autonomously in a birth centre?  An exciting job opportunity has arisen for midwives at Northwick Park Hospital.  A five bedded midwifery led unit with four birthing pools, providing a home from home environment requires dedicated, enthusiastic, and innovative midwives.

The role will be based on the birth centre with the opportunity to be supported to maintain your skills across the whole care pathway.

Main duties of the job

  • Provide safe and effective care to pregnant women/pregnant people during the antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum period
  • Work in partnership with women/birthing people and their families
  • Work collaboratively as a member of the Multidisciplinary team

Working for our organisation

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

  • Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
  • St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
  • Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
  • Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Midwife
  • Evidence of continual professional development
  • Degree or evidence of level 3 study or diploma
  • Actively maintain NMC Reg
Desirable criteria
  • Car driver

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • 12 months rotational midwifery experience
  • Experience in teaching and mentoring
  • Knowledge of safeguarding
  • MSSP/997/998
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in deputising in clinical environment

Skills, Abilities & Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Teaching skills
  • High standards of clinical performance
  • Ability in people management
  • Leadership and motivational skills
  • Team player
  • Able to work well in stressful situations, identifying and managing own emotional intelligence

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Capital Nurse, LondonApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kate Rudd
Job title
Development Consultant Midwife
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07814 884493