Nursing - Midwife

  • Department Ward 24 - Delivery Suite (PRH)
  • Salary £37,338.00 – £44,962 per annum
  • Closing Date 25/12/2024
  • Location The Princess Royal Hospital
  • Grade NHS AfC: Band 6
  • Job ref 223-MDW-984
  • Pension NHS Pension
  • Holidays Generous Holiday Allowance
  • NHS discount Eligible for NHS Discounts
  • Contract Permanent
  • Hours 37.5

Job overview

We would like to invite you to join our passionate, motivated and friendly midwifery team in Shropshire, where dedication to providing high quality, family-centred care is our priority.

You will work closely with the wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure the highest standards of care and safety for women, pregnant people and families.

Main duties of the job

It is an exciting time for our service and we would love you to join our team of Midwives and help us to shape our services to assist women's choice in place of birth. We offer a comprehensive orientation package, covering all aspects of our service. You will have guidance from our excellent practice education team.

You will need to have completed a preceptorship programme and achieved midwifery competencies.  

We have designated Practice Education Facilitator specifically for Recruitment and Retention and fully encouraging Team to further develop your midwifery skills.  We offer an excellent midwifery training and have a Multidisciplinary Training Faculty to support your training needs.

Working for your organisation

We have one main Consultant Unit which is a modern and well equipped facility, along-side a modern purpose built Midwife led unit based at The Princess Royal Hospital, Telford.   In total our birth numbers average 4,500 per year.

We are currently working to transform our services in line with Better Births and wider National maternity ambitions to improve Maternity Services. We have a newly formed dynamic senior leadership team in place who are embracing and supporting maternity transformation. 

The well-being of our staff is of the upmost importance to us.  If you are offered a role at our Trust, and fall into the increased and higher risk categories as set out by Public Health England (PHE) and NHSI/E, your line manager will complete an risk assessment with you.  This will be completed in conjunction with the latest guidance from Public Health England in relation to Covid-19.

By submitting your application to Trac, you are giving your consent for parts of your application data to be transferred to the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and other secure, internal NHS Workforce systems. This is to support and manage your recruitment and employment within your employing organisation. 

If successful, by completing the NHS Jobs application form you authorise the Trust to obtain any previous NHS service details including all electronically held sickness information, via the Inter Authority Transfer process on the national ESR.

If the role requires a qualification/professional registration, you will need to provide proof during the recruitment process. By submitting your application you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicant’s qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider.

In the event of a high response to this advertisement, this post will be closed. Early applications are advised.
 
Unfortunately we do not accept CVs or keep them on file. If you are unable to apply online please contact the person named in the advertisement for the post you are interested in.
 
We are committed to offering an interview to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the above position and will support reasonable adjustments wherever possible.  In addition, whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from candidates who are male, from black and minority ethnic backgrounds or who have a disability, as these are currently under-represented in our workforce.
 
We are committed to equal opportunities in employment. The policies and practices of the Trust aim to promote an environment that is free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of all people. At the heart of our policy, we seek to treat people fairly, flexibly and with dignity and respect.

Thank you for your interest in The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, we look forward to receiving your application for employment.

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