Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a midwife to join Jersey’s maternity services.

• This post will rotate across the three key areas within Jersey's Maternity Services: Antenatal Clinic, Inpatients and Labour ward and Community. Jersey has a thriving maternity service with a focus on continuity of care and a commitment to delivering outstanding care which starts within the antenatal setting. Our values of safety, kindness, teamwork, and improvement are very important to us and throughout our daily interactions with our service users, their families and our colleagues we aspire to live by these principles. We promote normality and aim to deliver high quality, safe and effective care in a meaningful way to the families in Jersey. Due to our size and resources, we provide employees at all levels of a wide choice of alluring benefits, an extremely competitive salary and unmatched chances for education and professional growth.
• We will welcome your application if you are an ambitious, enthusiastic, and proactive midwife looking for a rewarding career and a beautiful work/life balance. We have stunning beaches, glorious sunshine and an array of fantastic restaurants and shopping. Jersey is located just off the coast of France and is a short journey back to the UK served by great air and sea links. It really is a wonderful place to live and work.

For an informal conversation please contact Holly Gill - h.gill@health.gov.je  

Job Purpose

Rotational Midwives are autonomous practitioners accountable for their own midwifery practice and will fulfil the following role through the ability to make decisions within current protocols and principles of care in compliance within guidelines and spheres of professional practice. They are required to take responsibility as a prime care provider for service users in either the inpatients service, antenatal clinic or community/home setting and will follow a pattern of rotation between the three aforementioned areas.

They are responsible for planning and providing care and support to service users and their families throughout the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal period, helping them to make informed choices about their personalised care. They will be required to participate in the Maternity Services on-call system. 

Statutory Responsibilities

Active engagement, participation and compliance with any other statutory responsibilities applicable to the role, as amended from time to time. This role is politically restricted. The job holder is not permitted to undertake political activity involving standing for election to the Government or as a Parish Constable, or publicly supporting someone who is standing for election or playing a public part in any political manner.

Job Specific Outcomes 1 of 2

• Working as an autonomous practitioner each midwife is accountable for the care they give to service users and their babies. The midwife is a specialist in midwifery practice and should have the ability to act as lead professional in the care of low-risk service users and to coordinate and implement the care of high-risk service users in collaboration with the obstetric team.

• Provide care in partnership with doctors and other members of the multi-disciplinary team especially when deviations from the norm occur to promote a healthy outcome for service users and their babies

•  Support service users and their families who have limited or no English – arranging interpreting services to assist with communication. Ensuring any impairments to communication are understood and care facilitated

• Provide effective leadership and act as a good role model, supervising and teaching qualified and unqualified staff as required.

• Preform clinical tasks & risk assessment on service users which includes but is not limited to urinalysis, physiological measurements, blood sugar testing, infant feeding, venepuncture, canulation, catheterisation, wound swabs, eye swabs, CTG, MRSA swabs, stool samples, sputum specimens and record accurately on EPR/MEWS and escalate concerns as appropriate

• Be aware and compliant with of all relevant Health & Community Services policies, procedures and clinical guidelines and escalate any concerns/breaches to a Midwifery Sister/Charge Midwife or Midwifery Manager.

•  Assist and support Doctors with medical procedures, remain competent to support instrumental deliveries and assisting at operative deliveries. 

Job Specific Outcomes 2 of 2

• Provide a full range of education, advice and counselling to service users and their family including discussions about care options and signpost them to relevant resources and agencies.

• They will work within guidelines that enable their scope of practice but are responsible for recognising their limitation and undertaking continuous professional development and a portfolio for revalidation.

• Participate in the continual review, development, and improvement of maternity services by partaking in quality auditing processes and providing input into the development of future policies, procedures and clinical guidelines.

• Take a pro-active approach to risk management, raising learning points through DATIX, working with colleagues to reduce risk in all areas of service delivery in line with clinical governance.

•  Exhibit professional behaviour and attitude being a positive role model for colleagues and service users, acting in a manner which illustrates respect for privacy, dignity and confidentiality.

• Have a comprehensive understanding of medication safety principles, including the principles of administration, storage, and handling of medicines, including those under midwives’ exemptions. They will also engage in discussions with service users, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure accurate and up to date information regarding medicines

• Identity safeguarding issues relating all services users and their families and undertake the relevant referrals to agencies to ensure support is provided.

• Confidently and competently care for and support service users choosing to birth in a range of settings, including but not limited to consultant led labour ward, midwifery led unit & home 

Person specification

Qualifications

NMC Registered Midwife

Midwifery Degree/equivalent

Basic Adult Life Support

Safeguarding Level 3 Qualification

Knowledge

Recognising the limits of scope and authority within role.

Knowledge and understanding of healthcare associated midwifery issues.

Accepts responsibility and accountability for their own practice. Understands the principles of confidentiality.

Commitment to selfdevelopment; must have evidence of recent professional development.

Awareness of professional responsibilities

Knowledge of child protection and safeguarding 

Technical Work Based Skills

Proficient use of Microsoft Office applications e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.

 A clean B1 driving licence.

 Ability to engage with people and motivate and support them.

Calm under pressure able to use initiative and make decisions within their scope of practice.

Understanding of hospital environment and DATA systems e.g., electronic patient recodn systems

General skills / attributes

Good level reasoning skills and ability to problem solve.

Organised with effective time management; adaptable and self motivated.

Ability to present effectively both verbally and written.

Strong team player who has the ability to adapt to change.

Ability to identify stress in self and others and to take effective action to manage the situation. 

Experience

Broad experience of engaging with service users, motivate and support them to high standards.

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