Midwife Uk Visa Sponsorship Available

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

UHB is thrilled to provide a great opportunity for midwives to join our teams on the Midwifery Led Units. We are looking for midwives who are passionate about physiological delivery and provide excellent low-risk care to women and their newborns.

We are looking to hire self-motivated, energetic, and dynamic Registered Midwives. Our ideology revolves around facilitating and supporting women’s birthplace choices, as well as offering woman-centred care.

We are led by a supportive management team and can provide good prospects for future career development in accordance with NHS England criteria. Supporting and executing the Better Births vision, as well as the Three-year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services, to ensure that mothers, babies, and their families receive safe, personalised, and equitable care.

If you are passionate about providing high-quality midwife-led care, we want to hear from you.

Main responsibilities, tasks, and abilities required

The post holder will work as a midwife in University Hospitals Birmingham’s maternity services, working day and night shifts, weekends, and bank holidays, as well as on call when working in the community and ensuring continuity of care teams. The position holder will work in all aspects of the maternity service.

To serve as an autonomous, accountable, and experienced practitioner and leader in the delivery of care to women and their families.

To give women and their families with all relevant forms of specialised care and advice, including the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care during the prenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods.

To practise in any field of maternity care.

To take regular charge of a ward area/clinical case load/equivalent sphere of practice in the absence of the person with ongoing duty.

The postholder is expected to supervise junior workers and to be able to instruct both qualified and untrained personnel, including basic and/or post-basic pupils.

To deliver and promote low-risk physiological birth while emphasising women-centered care.

To identify departures from normality and communicate with the rest of the team in order to support the transition to consultant-led care.

About us.

We are acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading NHS Foundation Trusts. Our aim is to Build Healthier Lives, and we understand that we will require exceptional employees to achieve this.

Our dedication to our employees is to offer the ideal environment for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and well-being of our employees, including a commitment to provide flexible working arrangements when possible;
We provide our employees with a wide range of training and development options to help them achieve their personal and professional goals.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our employees are treated fairly and feel like they belong by providing a friendly and inclusive atmosphere. This is about equal opportunity; eradicating all barriers, including prejudice, and ensuring that each individual member of staff reaches their full potential, achieves their goals, and thrives in their jobs. This isn’t just words. We’re taking action. Our dedication to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation, where every voice is heard, and is pushed by our varied and active staff networks, as well as the Fairness Taskforce, which is managed by our CEO. We foster a culture that encourages employees to oppose discriminatory behaviour and allows people to contribute their “full self” to a kinder, more connected, and bolder place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a smoke-free hospital.

Job Description

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife on Part 2 of the NMC Professional Register.

Desirable

• NIPE qualification
• NLS qualification

Experience

Essential

• Completion of pre or post-registration midwifery program
• Return to midwifery practice.
• Ability to work independently within professional and trust guidelines.
• Capable of taking the professional lead when caring for low-risk women.
• Understanding the requirements of high and low-risk moms and newborns
• Understanding child protection issues and when to take action
• Knowledge to successfully perform and interpret foetal cardiac auscultation and cardiotocography
• Knowledge to safely use medical devices and other equipment needed for practice.
• Understanding of legal and ethical concepts in midwifery for choice, consent, and client autonomy
• Understanding how to safely administer epidurals during labour.
• Understanding of Risk Management
• Capable of entering data on a computer for birth notifications and patient records.
• Capable of collecting data for statistical audits.
• Capable of using a computer package to make growth charts.

Additional Criteria:

Essential

• Use proper moving and handling techniques antenatally, when aiding women in their chosen position, assisting women in delivering birth, postoperatively, for postnatal care, and when assisting with breast feeding.
• Vaginal inspection, venepuncture, cannulation, performing episiotomy, suturing, and different injections require manual dexterity and good hand-eye coordination.
• Have good written communication skills to keep clear, succinct contemporaneous records.
• Able to write reports and format policies.
• Effective customer service skills
• Capable of speaking, receiving, and giving directions in English without the possibility of misunderstanding.
• Be able to converse successfully over the phone, individually or in group discussions.
• Proficiency in using interpreters.
• Ability to express unpleasant facts and discuss sensitive topics (e.g., intrauterine death, stillbirth, foetal abnormalities, child protection issues)
• Communicate effectively and provide support to aggressive and disturbed women or family members.
• To efficiently interact with interdisciplinary teams and external agencies
• Take the opportunity to transmit knowledge at an appropriate level for health promotion, parent education, and mentoring students and younger midwives.
• Have a high level of dedication, motivation, ingenuity, and initiative.
• Ability to prioritise
• Must be willing to work across sites and support all clinical areas during periods of high acuity and escalation.
• Must be available to work shifts, including weekends and bank holidays.

Desirable

• able to ask for support
• Good problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Have the confidence to be an effective champion for women.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This position is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, which requires a Disclosure application to be submitted to the Disclosure and Barring Service (previously known as CRB) to check for any past criminal conviction.

Certificate of Sponsorship

applicants from job seekers who require existing skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are encouraged and will be reviewed alongside all other applicants. For further information, visit the UK Visas and Immigration page.

From April 6, 2017, skilled worker applicants requesting for entrance clearance into the UK were required to show a criminal record certificate from each country where they had lived continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the previous ten years. This requirement also applies to adult dependents (those over the age of 18). Guidance can be found here. Criminal background checks for international candidates.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must hold current UK professional registration. For further information, please visit the NHS Careers page.