Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are committed to providing high quality care for women and families; ensuring our practice and research addresses local needs through continual engagement with women, their families and our teams. The job description includes
To provide high quality, safe, care for all pregnant women and their families in a variety of settings.
To offer models of care personalised to individual need, promoting equality and respecting the diversity of the client groups.
To co-ordinate clinic and ensure the smooth journey for the women attending clinic.
Work as part of the multidisciplinary team, supporting the medical staff within the clinic setting.
Tracking and auctioning of blood results. .
Working as part of the team within clinic, supporting the maternity support workers, sonographers and admin staff.
Any other duty as reasonably required.
To effectively communicate complicated and sensitive information to women, their families and members of a multi-disciplinary team.
Adhere to and encourage others to utilize appropriate NMC and local standards for record keeping and all written documentation ensuring client and colleague confidentiality at all times.
Deal appropriately with positive and negative feedback from women, recognising the wider implications for the team. Ensure changes are implemented based on feedback and learning lessons.
Work as a team member to develop a working environment that encourages team working amongst staff. Identify and minimise interpersonal conflicts that may affect team or individual performance.
Provide cover for colleagues as necessary, including out of hours cover on a rotational basis, ensuring appropriate liaison to maintain continuity of care.
Able to demonstrate effective multi-disciplinary team working skills and abilities to ensure agreed objectives are achieved. Utilises others to address challenges within the working team.
Liaise, communicate and work in partnership with a variety of multi-agency teams
Contribute to the performance management of antenatal services by ensuring data collection and audit information is submitted in a timely manner
Provide evidence based midwifery care to women and their babies with the responsibility for assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
Able to manage effectively all aspects of clinical practice.
Working in partnership with women and their partners, offer opportunities for them to make well informed decisions about their care throughout pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.
Able to implement changes in midwifery practice to improve health outcomes for mothers and their babies.
To work autonomously within guidelines, policies and procedures and spheres of professional practice when carrying out midwifery care. Contribute to their development, implementation and evaluation.
Work within Nottingham City Safeguarding Children’s Board procedures at all times. Know how to record and share information and understand the differences between information sharing on individual, organisational and professional levels.
Utilise multi-agency frameworks and child protection assessment processes including the use of the common assessment framework.
Work in partnership with other agencies to provide effective parent education programmes.
Able to manage effectively expectations of women and their families.