Midwife – Private Maternity Unit | University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,471 - £50,364 Per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, WC1E 6DB |
| Company: | University College London Hospital |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6283126/309-UCLH-4354 |
Summary
Private Midwife – Private Maternity Unit, The Fitzrovia Suite, University College Hospital
Would you like to spend more one-to-one time with your patients and their newborns? At UCLH we are looking for an experienced midwife with outstanding customer service skills to join our growing team and provide dedicated care for our private maternity patients. To be successful in this post, you will need to demonstrate that you can offer excellent customer service to patients alongside a professional, can-do attitude. You will also need to understand and work to the expectations and service standards of private maternity care.
Previous experience of working with private patients is not essential, if you have strong midwifery skills and superb interpersonal skills - if you are new to working with private patients, it will give you a different perspective on patient care, which you will be able to take with you as you continue your career path.UCLH has ambitious plans to develop its private patient services – both by improving processes to support patient care and by significantly increasing income. The private Fitzrovia Ward was fully refurbished in 2022 and now includes two new delivery rooms and 5 postnatal rooms, which has expanded our private service to offer vaginal deliveries as well as C-sections.
A chance to build deeper patient relationships
With lower patient-to-midwife ratios than on NHS wards, a role in private healthcare will give you the opportunity to develop a deeper relationship with your patients, supporting them antenatally, through the birth that is right for them, and then providing them with postnatal care that gives their baby the very best start in life.
A leading centre for maternity and neonatal care
You will be working in one of the leading tertiary referral centres for neonatal care in London, given your experience of supporting women through extremely complex, as well as straightforward pregnancies. Our hospital has a busy level three neonatal unit and you will have the opportunity to further develop transferable skills by working alongside specialist teams in different departments at UCLH.
A commitment to your career
At UCLH we are committed to support you in developing your career, whichever direction you choose. Working with private patients will provide you with an opportunity to emphasise a different set of interpersonal skills, which will be invaluable whether you choose to work in the private or NHS midwifery sector long term. As a private midwife, you will be working closely alongside our world-class consultants, and, as part of a small team, will be offered plenty of opportunities to take the initiative when it comes to the care of your patients.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological,gastrointestinaland oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclearmedicineand pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
For the full Person Specification and more informationregardingthe main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and bea part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! :University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
*In the most recentNHS staff surveyUCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the second year in a row.
UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! :University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
This advert closes on Monday 20 May 2024
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