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SalaryBand 6 Midwife Maternal MedicineAntenatal Services Oxford Road
Saint Mary’s Hospital Managed Clinical Service is the largest maternity service in the country providing care for women across Manchester, its surrounding areas and the North West. Saint Mary's Hospital is a well-known centre of excellence with a vibrant and lively working atmosphere. We currently have exciting opportunities in Midwifery to include care across the pregnancy continuum including the Manchester Birth Centre and as part of our continuity of care pathway. We provide intrapartum care in all settings from home birth, co-located birth centre to a complex consultant led delivery unit with an integrated high dependency unit.
To join us, you will be an experienced Band 6 Registered Midwife with a desire to specialise in Antenatal services for women under the care of the Maternal Medicine service. You’ll find working with us extremely rewarding as part of a team dedicated to providing the best possible care and experience to all our patients. You’ll be joining our Trust at an exciting time as we grow and improve our services, and you will be able to make a positive contribution to its future success.
To support your career, we offer a wide range of development and educational initiatives that will assist your career here at MFT.
The post holder will be expected to:
Develop and implement programmes of evidenced based care planning for patient group and their families including reproductive health care.
Develop personalised care plans.
Ensure women and their families receive information in a sensitive way to enable them make an informed decision.
Provide direct patientcare and have detailed clinical knowledge of the specialist area.
Assist the Band 7 Specialist Midwife to ensure that high standards of quality of care are delivered & maintained.
Support the team to tackle health inequalities and social exclusion.
Identify local, demographic, cultural and environmental factors that influence the health and quality of life for the identified patient group and their families.
Act as a resource in the coordination and effective management of the admission and discharge process.
Ensure that child protection and vulnerable adult legislation is adhered to within own practice and service.
Support the development and evaluation of policies/guidelines/protocols for speciality clinical practice and support the updating and monitoring of policies/guidelines/protocols specific to the role within MFT.
Provide a visible clinical profile, having both an advisory and clinical input into patient care.
Prepare accurate and concise reports both verbal and written.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Monday 15 Jan 2024
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