Midwife Jobs London

Interviews at the hospital every two weeks. We pay your flight to London.

New Grad and experienced Midwives

Professional Connections has been exclusively awarded a contract to supply Midwives to perm posts to a London Hospital.

If you want a full time or part time post we are interested to hear from you.

Benefits

• Assistance with the recruitment process.

• Accommodation available first month free. Located beside the hospital. Reasonable cost after the first month.

• Free flight to take up employment.

Meet and Greet

Your contract of employment is with the hospital. Our client outsources the recruitment to Professional Connections.

Our client hospital in North London delivers up to 5500 births per year. The home birth rate is 3.5 % which is completely midwifery led.

The unit offers a full range of services from a popular Midwifery-Led Birthing Unit to a High Dependency Delivery Suite.

We are looking for highly motivated, pro-active and enthusiastic individuals to work rotationally within the unit.

There are opportunities that will provide experience in all areas of midwifery including the community and you will be fully supported by their experienced and diverse midwifery team.

Our recruiter has just visited the unit and spoken to many Midwives during the tour. Hope the comments below will answer some of your questions.

• Birthing centre is completely run by midwives

• Delivery ward fsor other woman includes a triage area, 2 bay observation area for high risk cases, 2 side rooms, 3 bed recovery area and theatres. ODP 's scrub for Caesarean sections during regular hours out of hours Midwives scrub. There is a three day training course if you are not experienced to scrub for caesarean section.

• Neonatal unit is near by the delivery room.

• Practise required to have one to one care,  achieved 97 % on last audit which was gaged from womens experience of labour.

• Normal delivery goes home in six hours or may stay overnight.

• Forceps same might go to two days

• Caesarean Section goes home day three

• Many midwives are trained to examine the newborn so those midwives can discharge mother and baby.

• There are computer terminals in all clinical areas.

• Releasing time to care studies have been done. Main change -drugs are now stored in the bay area so Midwives do not have to walk length of corridor to obtain them. Hand over time reduced in half. There is increased visibility of the Midwife for the mother.

• Moral is good. The Trust has looked at what was good and not so good about the unit.

• They looked at off duty and getting it right and addressing needs of fairness across the rostering. The staff have now fed back that they felt they got good support from their colleagues and also felt sense of team working. External focus groups were bought in to assist with these initatives.

• There is a good mix of junior midwives. Midwives with a few years experience and very experienced midwives many of who are in the Birthing center. New grads can expect good support. Mentor ship programme is very good.

• There is a midwifery recruitment and retention manager who has changed policies in response to needs of midwives coming to work at the Trust.

Off duty

• You can make 4 requests per month of the rota: 50% days and 50% nights
• 12,5 hours day 07:45 - 20:15  and reverse for nights
• One hour break taken as one hour
• Not more than three days in a row
• 8 hour shifts available too

Uniforms are worn in the ward areas and scrubs in delivery and the birthing centre. Black shoes laced preferrably no Crocks allowed.

If you are a new grad you will be placed in a one year rotation programme rotating two monthly to all areas including community. All Midwives will rotate to the community if you have a drivers license!

If you are an experienced midwife the rotations are less often.