Telephone Triage Midwife

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Band 6 Telephone Triage Midwife to join our maternity team located in Bicester on a full-time basis. This is an important role providing timely, safe and compassionate clinical advice to women and families contacting our maternity service. Working within the Telephone Triage Service, you will use your clinical expertise to assess concerns, identify risk, provide appropriate advice and ensure women are directed to the right care at the right time.

You will need to be a confident and experienced midwife with excellent communication skills, sound clinical judgement and the ability to make safe decisions while working autonomously. Part-time hours or a job-share can be considered.

• To work as a midwife and a member of the midwifery team in all areas of the maternity service as required – i.e. Community, Antenatal Ward, Labour Ward, Postnatal Ward, Transitional Care Unit, Birth Centre, Antenatal Clinic, Maternity Assessment Centre, Maternity Triage and the Telephone Triage Service.
• All midwife practitioners will be Registered Midwives, accountable for their own midwifery practice and will be able to fulfil the following role through the ability to make decisions with current protocols and principles of care in compliance with the NMC’s Midwives Rules and Code of Midwifery Practice.
• This midwife will be experienced and will be able to demonstrate experience in all aspects of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care.
• She/he will be expected to continue with post-registration education and development to become a confident midwife able to provide care with the women either in the community or hospital environment.
• The post holder is required to take responsibility as a prime care provider in either the hospital or community setting. She/he will be confident in providing midwife led care.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance;

this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.

• Registered Midwife
• Current on the NMC register
• Mentorship / PSPA / SLIP qualification
• Evidence of CPD
• Completed preceptorship.

• Leadership / management training
• Audit experience
• Registered nurse

• Experience of collaborative care/referral with other agencies related to maternity care.
• Up to date experience within all areas of midwifery, particularly low and high-risk antenatal care.
• Experience in providing clinical advice over the telephone.
• Experience of managing a ward area.

• Experience in guideline development and implementation
• Able to demonstrate achievement in service improvement.
• Experience of audit.

• Effective and enhanced internet and IT skills and good understanding of various…