Integrated Midwife with a Specialist Interest in Maternity Triage

Job summary

Integrated Midwife with a Specialist Interest in Maternity Triage

37.5 hours per week

Permanent

Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 per annum

Closing Date: Tuesday 1st September 2026

Interview Date: TBC

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **

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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

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Please note: At present we are not looking to recruit international candidates without complete NMC registration due to the time scales involved.

Main duties of the job

Come and join our friendly, professional, and caring team at the George Eliot Maternity Unit.

The successful post holder will provide ante-natal, post-natal and intrapartum care to women with low and high-risk pregnancies.

They will rotate through all areas of the services as required including Continuity of Carer and Community and will be supported by the newly appointed midwifery retention support midwife.

You will also have access to the lead Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) and a team of PMAs for additional support if/when required.

We are a unit who provide personalised care for women, babies and their families ensuring a first class service and experience. The benefits include:

• Dynamic and supportive management team
• Forward thinking in response to new national initiatives, including the saving babies lives care bundle
• Provision of preceptorship for newly qualified members of the team
• Named professional midwifery advocate
• On-going professional development and support
• Rotation and integration within all areas of the service

If you would like to be part of this successful, flexible, friendly team, whether you are a newly qualified or experienced midwife we would like to hear from you.

About us

Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

Job responsibilities

• The post holder will provide high quality integrated midwifery care in both hospital and community settings as required for mothers, babies and their families throughout pregnancy, labour, the postnatal period, this may be partof an integrated continuity of carer team as required by service needs.
• Act as the womans advocate in promoting, and delivering the highest standard of midwifery care, ensuring all fundamentals of care are addressed, and current, relevant policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Using evidence-based practice, assess the womans physical, psychological and spiritual needs, plan, implement and evaluate midwifery care involving the woman and her family, as appropriate.
• Write reports, record observations and maintain plans of care, including electronic data storage; and other appropriate records, accurately, legibly, concisely and contemporaneously.
• Monitor the womans condition, interpret observations and identify deviations from normal. Report and refer to relevant health professionals, carrying out midwifery interventions as needed.
• Keep the woman and her family informed, when appropriate maintaining client confidentiality.
• Ensure midwifery care is flexible to meet the diverse needs of women.
• Undertake clinical skills, as per the trusts Health Board Policy, relevant to role and the womans care.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.

Person specification

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Good level of post registration experience including experience within relevant clinical environment
• Recent experience of managing the care of women in antenatal, intrapartum and post-natal periods
• Participation in patent education programmes
• Knowledge of safeguarding children procedures

Desirable

• Caring for women choosing to labour and give birth in water
• Previous experience of participating in research and audit
• Experience of midwife led care in the community

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered midwife
• Evidence of ongoing relevant continuing professional development, linked to demonstrate clinical competencies
• Assessing and Mentoring OR Practice Assessor Qualification or willing to work towards.
• Basic life support

Desirable

• NVQ Assessors course
• Possession of a relevant degree or studying towards it

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• High standard midwifery skills
• Perineal repair
• Effective teaching, training and mentoring skills
• Effective organisational and time management skills
• Computing skills to input data, use of the NHS intranet, email and word programmes
• Undertake specific midwifery procedures involving manual dexterity for example, intravenous injections, perineal suturing and vaginal examinations
• Physical skills to manually handle patients and appropriate lifting aids to maintain patient comfort and safety

Desirable

• Able to work across professional team and organisational boundaries
• Interviewing skills
• Appraisal skills
• Able to problem solve and initiate change

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Effective time management
• Motivated, enthusiastic and committed to the department
• Takes responsibility for own actions and promotes good team working