Newcastle Hospitals Maternity Services provide gold standard care to a diverse demographic of service users from within the city and across the Region. Situated within The Royal Victoria Infirmary, a large tertiary unit, our maternity department stands as a centre of excellence encompassing a comprehensive range of services in acute, inpatient, outpatient, and community settings facilitating 6,000 births per year. Our midwives are afforded diverse professional experiences and opportunities, providing women and birthing people with individualised low risk to highly complex care throughout the childbirth continuum making clinical practice both exciting and challenging. Our antenatal services include obstetric shared-care clinics where our obstetric team work in partnership with our consultant midwife and specialist midwifery teams to provide care to women and birthing people with complex pregnancies and co-morbidities.
The Maternity Assessment Unit and Day Care Unit is staffed by a team of enthusiastic midwives and doctors with our antenatal ward team providing care for women and birthing people requiring an inpatient stay. In the intrapartum period our midwives provide high quality one to one care in our integrated midwifery-led unit and shared- care obstetric unit. RVI maternity boasts a 12 roomed integrated midwife-led birthing centre complete with five pool rooms, as well as a 14 roomed delivery suite with two obstetric theatres. Our 34 bedded postnatal ward is staffed by midwives and maternity support workers and an 8 bedded transitional care ward provides multidisciplinary shared care for mothers, birthing people and babies.
Four community-based midwifery teams around the city provide a traditional model of community care, antenatal clinics are facilitated in GP surgeries, community hubs and our integrated midwifery led birthing centre. In partnership with allied health services, community midwives facilitate parent education in the community, tailored to the demographic of their service users. Band 5 Develop, in conjunction with the women, a programme of individualised, holistic care, taking cognisance of social, physical, psychological and cultural needs Works autonomously within NMC, Trust & Directorate Policies and Guidelines to provide specialist expertise to women in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period, delivering high quality, evidence based care and acting as advocate for women and protector of the child within the hospital/community setting Lead professional for low-risk women Band 6 - Rotational/Community Develop, in conjunction with the women, a programme of individualised, holistic and personalised care, taking cognisance of social, physical, psychological and cultural needs Works autonomously within NMC, Trust & Directorate Policies and Guidelines to provide specialist expertise to women in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period, delivering high quality, evidence-based care and acting as an advocate for women and protector of the child within the hospital/community setting To provide support and advice to all members of staff and colleagues within the multi-professional team Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate.The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
