Midwifery Led Care - Private Maternity Midwife - London

Job overview

Join Our Midwife-Led Team!

Not only will you gain a wealth of experience in a variety of clinical settings, but will have the opportunity to support the innovation of our complementary services!

About Us:

We are committed to promoting physiological birth practices while fostering a warm and friendly environment. For more information about us, please visit The Kensington Wing – Luxury Private Maternity Care

Ideal Candidate:

You should be a passionate and dedicated midwife with a strong commitment to midwife-led care, excellent communication skills, and a desire to create positive birth experiences for women. Your ability to work collaboratively in a supportive team environment is essential to thriving in this role.

Main duties of the job

As a Band 6 Midwife, within our esteemed midwife-led team, you will play a crucial role in providing high-quality, individualised care to expectant women, birthing people and their families throughout their pregnancy, labour, and postpartum journey.

Our focus on a continuity of care model enables you to foster meaningful relationships with the women you support, ensuring a positive and empowering birth experience with reduced risk of intervention. This position allows for a commitment to physiological birth practices without the demands of on-call duties, providing flexibility in your work schedule.

You will collaborate closely with our outstanding obstetric consultants and wider MDT to ensure the highest standard of safe, gold-standard care for our patients.

Please note: Will require weekend and night shifts

Working for our organisation

• Our 7,500 staff are recruited from local communities and around the world
• Our staff rate us second among acute trusts in London as a place to work
• Despite challenges in the NHS, our low staff vacancy rate remains significantly better than the national average
• We are passionate about the health and wellbeing of our staff with a huge support offer, including our nationally-recognised free back-up care scheme and Timewise accreditation as a flexible employer
• We love to develop our people, offering a range of development programmes and apprenticeships, with our healthcare support worker apprentices winning Apprentice of the Year for two years running
• We offer a fantastic range of salary sacrifice schemes, from season ticket loans, bicycles and vehicles, to gym memberships, home electronics and holidays

Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Maintain and develop up-to-date evidence based professional knowledge and competence in accordance with NMC legislation and recommendations. Promote and role model positive professional behaviour.
• To abide by the NMC Midwives Rules and Standards (2012). As a Registered Midwife, you are personally accountable for development of your practice.
• Maintain and develop high standards of research-based midwifery care.
• Implement Trust policies and protocols utilising significant discretion to work within a set of defined parameters and ensure that all care is carried out within the agreed standard and policy. Participate in up-dating and revising of policies and guidelines as appropriate.
• Liaise and maintain effective working relationships with hospital and community midwifery based staff as well as other professional groups. Liaise effectively with the Professional Midwifery Advocates and demonstrate an understanding of their role.
• Have awareness of the pressure and workload on professional colleagues and manage the existing resources as required on a daily basis.
• Actively promoting the implementation of service developments and quality initiatives to enhance service provision.
• The post holder is aware and identifies concerns relating to child protection (Children’s Act, 1989) liaising with the Named Midwife for Child Protection and the multidisciplinary team.
• To show regard and respect for different ethnic, cultural and religious beliefs within the provision of all aspects of midwifery care.
• Show an awareness and understanding of vulnerable adults at risk and the processes and support mechanisms available. This midwife will seek advice from the senior midwife in all instances.

• Act as an autonomous practitioner in all areas of normal midwifery practice as guided by the Midwives Rules and Standards (2012). This role encompasses the care given during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period.
• Responsible for assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the total care to women/mothers and babies throughout their pregnancy and birth journey
• Act as a role model providing preceptorship for newly qualified midwives.
• Give advice, care and support to women and birthing people autonomously through regular antenatal clinics.
• Maintain competence in, manage and co-ordinate emergency procedures which require knowledge and expertise whilst awaiting medical assistance.
• Record and report all adverse clinical risks utilising the appropriate incident reporting system and forms.
• Assume responsibility for the safe custody and administration of drugs in accordance with the Trust policies and statutory rules/ guidelines.
• Identify areas for research, audit and development. Initiate and participate in research and clinical audit programmes. Encourage and motivate other midwives to participate in audit and research. Encourage and develop new approaches to practice.
• Ensure relevant research findings are integrated into the practices and policies. Encourage and take an active role in the evaluation of new approaches to practice.
• Work with social workers and the primary health care team, formatting reports or attending Social Services Case Conferences as a delegated responsibility of the senior case holding midwife in conjunction with the vulnerable women’s lead midwife.

• Participate in the setting, maintaining and reviewing of standards of midwifery practice. Participate in the teaching and orientation of learners and new members of staff.
• To provide the effective mentoring/associate mentoring and assessment of student midwives and ensure that appropriate records and reports on student progress are available to the relevant University.
• Disseminate professional and clinical knowledge to colleagues. Encourage and develop innovation in practice.
• Ensure that appropriate health education is provided for women and their families making full use of available resources. Introducing new developments and practices as necessary.
• Participate in Trust mandatory training programmes, including MOMS.
• Play an active role in the planning and provision of parent education and information programmes.

• Observe Midwives’ Rules and Standards (2012) as dictated by the NMC.
• Ensure working conditions are safe, in accordance with the Health & Safety at Work Act. Be aware of and abide by local infection control policies and procedures.
• Attend annual core and mandatory training.
• Maintain contemporaneous and concise records with due regard to maintaining client confidentiality.

• Promote effective personal management of time and resources to provide a safe midwifery service. Refer to the senior midwife or midwifery manager for support in the work place.
• To be aware of the financial resources in the defined clinical area.
• Support the investigation of complaints as required. Take verbal complaints and diffuse complaints wherever possible.
• Facilitate the smooth running of the designated clinical area on a daily basis.
• Adhere to the Health and Safety legislation, in particular, COSHH regulations and advise other levels of staff.
• Maintain stores and make recommendations for the procurement of equipment; ensure proper economic use is made of them.
• Regularly attend unit meetings, professional updates and study days.
• To work with the Kensington Wing team to incorporate the specific to align with gold standard customer service

Person specification

Trust Values

• Putting patients first
• Responsive to patients and staff
• Open and honest
• Unfailingly kind
• Determined to develop

Education and qualifications

• Practising Band 6 midwife
• Evidence of a commitment to post-registration education and achievement of all the preceptorship programme competencies

• Practice supervisor and/or practice assessor qualification
• NIPE trained

Experience

• Previous comprehensive midwifery experience in all areas of midwifery
• Evidence of previous management of a ward area or community caseload in the absence of the senior midwife

• Experience in private care
• Proficient in antenatal education

Skills and knowledge

• Communicating effectively with women, staff and other agencies
• Facilitate effective team working
• Evidence of knowledge of recent midwifery research and clinical audit
• Demonstrate an ability to apply research to practice and to support changes in practice as a result of clinical audit
• Computer literate

• Evidence of suturing skills
• Trained in complementary therapies
• Lactation or tongue-tie practitioner

• The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
• If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks after the closing date, we regret that this usually means your application was not successful.
• In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
• During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
• Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.