Registered Nurse / Midwife at Medison Specialist Women's Hospital

Main duties of the job

• We are recruiting nurse midwives who have recently started their career to join our team. You will be provided with opportunities to develop your skills, gaining valuable experience within all areas of the maternity service.
• The post holder will be responsible for the provision of autonomous, evidence-based, women-centred nursing-midwifery care, whilst working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, other agencies, representatives and service users. The post holder will provide support to other midwives within the service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

• Plan and implement individualised nursing and nursing-midwifery care that is women, pregnant person, child and family centred.
• Facilitate the participation of service users and their families in all decision making, ensuring informed choice dialogue.
• Ensure all risk assessments and referrals are completed and actioned and documented.
• Follow nursing-midwifery/obstetric guidelines where appropriate and liaise with the multidisciplinary team in the implementation of patient care, reporting and recording any deviations from the protocol.

Administration

• Be responsible for the reporting and the proper maintenance of equipment.
• Be responsible at times for obtaining and the safekeeping of drugs as delegated.
• Be responsible for the proper and economical use of storage and supplies in the department and report any anticipated deficiencies in stock.
• Be responsible for the collection of statistics and data regarding own nursing-midwifery practice and as required by the Care Group/Trust.

Personnel

• Responsible for day-to-day management of your own workload. This may include management of staff and team in the absence of the Hospital Matron.
• Participate in the orientation and development of new staff.
• Participate in the appraisal of staff as appropriate.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current Nigerian Nursing and Midwifery Council Registered Midwife
• Experience of working in all clinical areas
• Able to demonstrate a good level of theoretical midwifery knowledge
• Knowledge of relevant professional rules and codes of practice
• Clinical skills and competence in suturing and cannulation