37.5 hours per week
Permanent
Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
Closing Date: Tuesday 1st September 2026
Interview Date: TBC
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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Please note: At present we are not looking to recruit international candidates without complete NMC registration due to the time scales involved.
Come and join our friendly, professional, and caring team at the George Eliot Maternity Unit.
The successful post holder will provide ante-natal, post-natal and intrapartum care to women with low and high-risk pregnancies.
They will rotate through all areas of the services as required including Continuity of Carer and Community and will be supported by the newly appointed midwifery retention support midwife.
You will also have access to the lead Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) and a team of PMAs for additional support if/when required.
We are a unit who provide personalised care for women, babies and their families ensuring a first class service and experience. The benefits include:
Dynamic and supportive management team
Forward thinking in response to new national initiatives, including the saving babies lives care bundle
Provision of preceptorship for newly qualified members of the team
Named professional midwifery advocate
On-going professional development and support
Rotation and integration within all areas of the service
If you would like to be part of this successful, flexible, friendly team, whether you are a newly qualified or experienced midwife we would like to hear from you.
Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘ excel at patient care’ takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
E ffective Open Communication
e x cellence and safety in everything we do
C hallenge but support
E xpect respect and dignity
L ocal health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
The post holder will provide high quality integrated midwifery care in both hospital and community settings as required for mothers, babies and their families throughout pregnancy, labour, the postnatal period, this may be part of an integrated continuity of carer team as required by service needs.
Act as the woman’s advocate in promoting, and delivering the highest standard of midwifery care, ensuring all fundamentals of care are addressed, and current, relevant policies and procedures are adhered to.
Using evidence-based practice, assess the woman’s physical, psychological and spiritual needs, plan, implement and evaluate midwifery care involving the woman and her family, as appropriate.
Write reports, record observations and maintain plans of care, including electronic data storage; and other appropriate records, accurately, legibly, concisely and contemporaneously.
Monitor the woman’s condition, interpret observations and identify deviations from normal. Report and refer to relevant health professionals, carrying out midwifery interventions as needed.
Keep the woman and her family informed, when appropriate maintaining client confidentiality.
Ensure midwifery care is flexible to meet the diverse needs of women.
Undertake clinical skills, as per the trust’s Health Board Policy, relevant to role and the woman’s care.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
