Job overview

Are you an innovative, motivated, experienced midwife ready to progress in the growing area of Maternal Medicine?  We are inviting progressive individuals eager to make their next career step to come and work with us. 

The Maternal Medicine team provide leadership on the identification, referral and management of women with medical conditions including the development of guidelines and referral pathways. We co-ordinate maternal medicine MDT meetings with maternity providers across NENC and ensure appropriate advice and care planning for the most medically complex women who access maternity service.

We are expanding our midwifery team to support delivery of the Maternal Medicine service at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. Successful applicants will be rewarded with a unique and varied opportunity to work across inpatient and outpatient settings, to streamline care pathways and enhance experiences for service users.  You will work closely with the Consultant Midwife, Obstetric and Medical Consultants and be an integral part of the wider perinatal team.

The Royal Victoria Infirmary is a proud, professionally stimulating and supportive environment, you will be encouraged to be bold, ambitious and successfully achieve your professional goals. We welcome midwifery candidates committed to using their knowledge and skill for the holistic benefit of women with complex medical needs, by contributing to the provision of high-quality care, positive service user outcomes and experience. 

Main duties of the job

Provide personalised, holistic care and oversee care co-ordination throughout pregnant and postnatal period. 

Ensure ongoing ‘universal’ midwifery care while recognising medical complexity, prioritise important public health messages.

Listening to women and their families, act as the woman’s advocate within the Multidisciplinary Team, ensure that care is wrapped around the woman and her family throughout pregnancy and the postnatal continuum.

Recognising the need for and provide additional support to women known to experience inequality in maternity care. 

Participation in safeguarding processes.

Focus on positive expectations for pregnancy, birth and family life while acknowledging concerns posed by medical complexity.

Support access to planned care and medication compliance.
Liaise with NICU/infant feeding teams to support care as required, focus on maternal and child relationships, provide support when infants admitted to NICU.

Support women admitted to medical or surgical wards, high dependency/ intensive care settings. 

Engage with clinical midwifery teams across the Maternal Medicine Network to ensure care provision is as seamless and delivered as close to the woman’s home as possible.

Promote and represent Maternal Medicine Services within the organisation, providing peer support to the wider perinatal team.

Consistently maintain high standards in the provision of maternity care and support safe, personalised, kind, professional and family centred care.

Working for our organisation

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:

·         Freeman Hospital

·         Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)

·         Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)

·         Newcastle Dental Hospital

·         Newcastle Fertility Centre

·         Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria

·         Northern Genetics Service

·         Cramlington Manor Walks

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust