MSI Recruitment currently have fantastic opportunities for Midwives n the Jersey area.
Job Type: Full-time
Roles and Responsibilites
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.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Provide effective leadership and act as a good role model, supervising and teaching qualified and unqualified staff as required.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Assist and support Doctors with medical procedures, remain competent to support instrumental deliveries and assisting at operative deliveries.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
Salary: £50,000.00-£60,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Jersey: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Midwifery: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- NMC (preferred)
- Right to work in the UK (preferred)
Work Location: In person
