Bank Registered Midwife

Care Group: Women & Children's Service

Band: 6

Hourly Rate: £25.76 - £33.49 per hour depending on shift

ONLY OPEN TO UK RESIDENTS

YOU MUST HAVE A FULL UK NMC PIN

YOU MUST HAVE A MINIMUM OF 2 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THE UK

We are recruiting for UK NMC Bank Registered Midwives who share our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of care by the best of people and have the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

To be accountable for the overall provision of excellent care and provide evidenced based woman centred midwifery care which can be delivered in a variety of models. The post holder will work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, other agencies and user representatives.

Main duties of the job

We would like to invite you to join our highly motivated midwifery team where commitment to providing high quality, woman-centred care is our main priority. We require a self-motivated, dynamic professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to join our proactive maternity team.

Medway Maternity services support approximately 5,000 women and babies per annum. We are forward thinking with motivated staff who strive to improve the quality of the service that we offer to our women, their babies and their families. We have achieved and sustained Baby Friendly Initiative Stage 3 and are now working to maintain this, and provide professional development opportunities for all levels of staff.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

About us

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

In return for your hard work and dedication, The Temporary Resourcing Service offers the following benefits:

• Free mandatory training
• Cost of DBS and uniform is covered by the Trust
• Priority shift booking over agency staff
• Support for revalidation
• Opportunities to work in specialist areas and develop key skills and experience
• Short-term, medium-term long-term "lines of work" available in a variety of areas (guaranteed shifts)
• Weekly payroll
• Online shift booking, allowing for shifts to be booked via smart phones and no need for paper timesheets
• Dedicated team to ensure you are supporte

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment. Our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families.

The Trust is taking take positive action to ensure that we can recruit and retain people from under-represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Job responsibilities

Medway Maternity Services support approximately 5,000 women and babies per annum. We are forward thinking with motivated midwives, obstetricians and support teams, who strive to improve the quality of the service that we offer to our women, their babies and their families. We have achieved and sustained Baby Friendly Initiative Stage 3; won national awards including the RCM Team of the year in 2019 and provide a variety of professional development opportunities for all levels of staff.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Registered Midwife

Knowledge

• Demonstrates awareness of key issues currently impacting on the midwifery profession and service
• Demostrates understanding of national & local guidelines, policies & procedures

Experience

• Experience of providing midwifery care in both hospital and community services.
• Experience in providing midwifery care to mothers experiencing normal pregnancy and birth and those requiring obstetric care.

Skills Values Based Question

• Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a 'can do' attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£25.76 to £33.49 an hour depending on shift