Midwife

Role Overview & Responsibilities

We are keen to hear from experienced band 6 midwives who have a particular interest in:

• Maternity Day Assessment
• Triage
• Maternal Medicine
• Safeguarding
• Antenatal Care
• Maternity Helpline

We support and encourage professional and personal development and provide the opportunity for this. We provide flexibility around area of work and are happy to accommodate development in your area of specialist interest. Please feel free to contact us to discuss further.

• The post holder will be a registered midwife with the ability to practice autonomously when providing care to women/birthing people during the antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum period, he or she will be the prime care provider to mothers/birthing people and their families.
• The individual will work as a member of a team providing maternity care to women/birthing people within the hospital and
• As a registered midwife she/he will work within the framework of the NMC Code and the London Northwest University Healthcare Trust Guidelines, protocols.
• The post holder will deputise the ward or department in the absence of the senior midwife.
• In the community setting he/she will take responsibility for a the workload and participate with the on call service within the
• Provide safe and effective care to pregnant women/pregnant people during the antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum period
• Work in partnership with women/birthing people and their families
• Work collaboratively as a member of the Multidisciplinary team

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.