Advice Line Midwife

To work as part of the Multi-professional team providing a high standard of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal midwifery care to women and their families within the integrated maternity service. To work as part of a continuity of carer team or rotate within all clinical areas within maternity services to support professional development and maintain safe standards of midwifery care in line with service provision.

Main duties of the job:

• The post-holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
• This midwife is expected to carry out all relevant forms of care and is designated to take charge regularly of a ward area or an equivalent sphere within midwifery in the absence of the person who has continuing responsibility.
• The post-holder will be required to work in both the community and the hospital across a 7 day service including night duties.
• The post-holder is expected to supervise junior staff and to be able to teach qualified and unqualified staff, including basic and/or post-basic students.

Working for our organisation:

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure. We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding. Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Call a Midwife Advice Line Midwife Band 6. The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an enthusiastic, band 6 Midwife to join the Call a Midwife Advice Line team, based at South East Coast Ambulance HQ in Crawley. Call a Midwife is a designated telephone advice and triage line available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week providing advice and guidance to pregnant and postnatal women under the care of Royal Surrey, Ashford and St Peters and Epsom Hospitals. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a small team directing women to the most appropriate place of care and provide midwifery advice for 999 operators and other health professionals. This can be a dedicated Call a Midwife position or if preferable hours can be split between the Advice Line and clinical care within the Royal Surrey Maternity Unit. If you are able to meet the challenge of delivering high standards of care, ensuring that each woman’s journey to motherhood is an individualised experience, we would love you to join our team! You must hold NMC midwifery registration. You will be expected to be able to show evidence of current practice/updating.

Person specification:

• Qualifications:

• Registered Midwife – Part 10 of the register
• Shows consolidation of experience through achievement of Competency Skills in midwifery Diploma level or above midwifery qualification
• Teaching and Assessing qualification/ Mentor preparation course

• Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience as a practising midwife
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy/national guidance/CQC/ and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
• Member of relevant professional body
• Experience of organising own workload and leading where appropriate
• Experience of managing a ward area
• Experience of working within the community setting

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.