Job description
Come and join us at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as we implement innovations to improve our maternity service. We are in a period of transition whilst maintaining safe staffing in all clinical areas, and are looking for flexible, talented and enthusiastic midwives to be based within our midwifery led units at St Mary’s Hospital and Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital.
We are committed to ensuring you have a development plan that meets your needs, with a supportive management team who value the input of team members and the contribution they make to improve our service.
We can offer the opportunity to work within different teams:
- A combined role between delivery suite and midwifery led birth unit
- A combined role between the midwifery led unit and community
- A role including supporting home births
- Work within a variety of designated clinical areas providing a high standard of holistic, evidenced based care to women and their babies across the continuum of childbirth.
- Work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team with a good understanding of the various roles to ensure appropriate referrals are made.
- Provide effective, individualised, women-centred, evidence-based midwifery led care.
- Provide support, education and mentorship to other midwives, student midwives and designated support staff.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community. Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.
As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.