Midwife

Role: Midwife

Location: Midland Metropolitan University Hospital

Salary: Bands 5 and 6 (£29,970 to £44,962)

Start Date: ASAP

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust are proud to have a Brand New, State of the Art hospital as our new patient centred care giving offering for our local residents.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opened in October 2024 and provides cutting edge care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises which are flooded with natural light. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic compassionate and self-motivated Midwifes to join the brand midwife-led birthing unit, 2 maternity wards and anti natal service programs in the new  Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH). As a member of our Midwifery team you will strive to give outstanding care and provide the very best to our patients ensuring a positive experiences and outcomes.

What do we offer you:

• Flexible working opportunities
• Amazing development opportunities with the first UK Clinical skills lab being embedded within the hospital, allowing an emphasis on education within medical and surgical conditions, high dependency, Paediatric emergency assessment, Paediatric outpatients, adolescent and CAMHS
• An opportunity to have access to state of the art equipment within a brand new hospital setting
• Annual personal development review, 1:1 support and monthly teaching sessions
• Access to our Clinical Paediatric Educator to help develop your bespoke training program
• External and Internal courses as part of our competency-based ward assessment
• Services to support your health and wellbeing (which starts with the layout of the hospital), sanctuary, and free access to onsite gym
• The benefit of the NHS pension scheme offering

What we need from you:

• You must be a Registered Midwife on the NMC Professional Register
• Have experience working in the UK as a Midwife
• Continued CPD to maintain your ability to practice

Your duties will include:

• Act as the professional lead for low risk women, promoting the normal birthing process
• Deliver culturally competent midwifery care
• Monitor maternal and fetal well being in pregnancy
• To promote the uptake and provision of parent education to help parents to make and effective and confident transition to parenthood
• Assess and make appropriate referral of women for specialist counselling and support as appropriate, for example fetal anomaly screening, bereavement, sexual health, vulnerable and disadvantaged women; young mothers, refugees, the homeless, those living with domestic violent and those with psychological problems

Don’t miss this opportunity to join a brand new hospital project which affords some of the best chances for career progression that you are likely to find.

If you should have any queries regarding the role then please contact paul.madigan@espirita.co.uk.