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Job overview

The Northern Care Alliance are delighted to offer a post for a Registered Midwife to join our Complex Pregnancy team providing midwifery care to women who receive care from Oldham Fetal Medicine Unit and Antenatal Day Unit

The role will be varied and will involve working closely with our team of Midwives and the MDT,  providing care to women who are identified as being at risk of preterm labour,  complex pregnancy or who have a multiple pregnancy.

Main duties of the job

Assist the Complex Pregnancy manager to evaluate and deliver elements of the SBL care bundle

Engage in the education and training of multi-professional staff, ensuring training is delivered face-to-face to each relevant member of staff within the Trust and ensure competence documents are issued and completed and recorded via a training log.

Ensure all pregnancies have the appropriate risk factors identified and to manage the referral process for the preterm clinic ensuring women at risk follow appropriate pathways to determine performance for detection of at-risk pregnancies.

Provide clinical expertise within the fetal medicine unit and Antenatal Day unit to ensure the care women receive is evidence based, kind and compassionate. Organise appropriate referral to tertiary unit as required.

Be involved in regular audit to ensure that the women attending the unit have been appropriately identified and their care planned according to clinical need utilising current evidence-based treatments.

To report on the National Preterm database.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.