Lead Midwife for Community Services (NHS AfC: Band 7) - Midwifery - Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

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Main area: Midwifery

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7

Contract: Permanent (to include manager on call)

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (to include manager on call)

Job ref: 407-WCCSS-

Site: Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Town: Walsall

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 11/04/:59

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust provides integrated acute and community Healthcare in the West Midlands serving a population of 260,000 residents. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and we are continually upgrading.

We provide high quality, friendly and effective community health services from multiple sites covering Walsall. Our multidisciplinary services include rapid response and home-based care, so that those with long term conditions and the frail elderly can remain in their own homes.

We are recommended by colleagues as a place to work which is supported by the trust's values to work as part of a team, being respectful, compassionate and professional. We are committed to investing in our workforce.

Following our recent CQC visit, the Trust was rated as outstanding for care and this has been recognised by NHS Improvement.

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including: salary sacrifice scheme; car leasing scheme; on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability); the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme; and the opportunity to develop and implement your expertise in an encouraging yet challenging environment.

We would particularly welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background and from people with a disability; these groups are currently under-represented at senior level, we value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality in our recruitment.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. While COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced passionate registered midwife to lead and manage our community midwifery teams at Walsall Healthcare Trust. You will be experienced, enthusiastic and caring and must be able to work autonomously, demonstrating excellent clinical skills to provide effective, individualised women-centred care. You will need to promote normality and the use of alternative therapies for the benefit of low-risk women. If you are looking for the opportunity to work innovatively, utilizing and developing your midwifery skills within a successful Midwifery community led team then this may be the opportunity for you.

Main duties of the job

You must be flexible, having the ability to work to participate in our on-call manager's rota and shifts as required to support the midwifery led unit.

Successful candidates can look forward to working within a team of dedicated Midwives and Obstetricians. Successful candidates will receive a full orientation programme supported by the professional development team.

Person specification Skills Experience

• Community and MLU based experience
• Leadership

Knowledge

• Management of a team
• Experience of HR, occupational health, sickness training reviews
• Experience of an on-call system

Please note your application will be transferred from the NHS Jobs system to internal Walsall Healthcare Trac System. All correspondence will be sent via Trac.

Following our recent CQC visit the Trust was rated as outstanding for care and this has been recognised by NHS Improvement.

Please Note that this post may be identified as suitable and a preference given for Internal at Risk Employees

IMPORTANT NOTE ON COMPLETION OF REFERENCE SECTION OF APPLICATION FORM

References from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. When completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover this period. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please review the attached Job description and person specification carefully before applying to ensure that you meet the essential job requirements.

Candidates should be aware that, regardless of country of origin, their ability to communicate in written and spoken English to the standard required to carry out the post, will be assessed during the selection process.

Referee email addresses should be provided on your application form.

Following the closing date, if you have not heard from us within 6 weeks you may assume your application has been unsuccessful.

We reserve the right to close this job early. Interested applicants are therefore advised to apply as early as possible.

If a large number of applicants meet the essential criteria then random selection will be applied.

We are committed to operating flexible working practices wherever possible and committed to equal opportunities.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

Please note this vacancy may close early due to high volume of applications.

Name: Sally Giddings

Job title: Head of Midwifery, Gynaecology and Sexual Health

Email address:

Telephone number:

Additional information: Carol King-Stephens

EDI Lead Matron