Our dedicated Women and Children’s Health Division at North Bristol NHS Trust provides the maternity services for the Trust. We can offer midwives many exciting opportunities that will help to develop skills in all areas of maternity care, including in our antenatal, postnatal and birth settings, including the central delivery suite and midwifery led birth centres. We are proud to co-produce our services with the Local Maternity System and Maternity Voices Partnerships.
Our Maternity Services at North Bristol NHS Trust include the following:
Other divisional services include:
We are fortunate to be able to offer new and exciting opportunities within our team who provide personalised, safe care and wellbeing for all women, babies and their families.
Our Practice Development Team and line managers will provide you with a comprehensive local induction /orientation programme that will enable you to gain experience within our hospital and community settings.
Our clinical education facilitators and practice education facilitators offer the opportunity to work alongside you within all clinical areas to ensure a smooth transition to our unit. We also have bespoke health and wellbeing support available, alongside the award-winning Trust Health and Wellbeing programme.
For newly registered Midwives, our comprehensive Preceptorship programme will ensure you are supported with your transition from student to registered professional.
As an organisation, we have strong links to the University of Bristol and University of the West of England. More than 7,000 patients take part in research with more than 500 studies each year, including through our active maternity research team.
The Women and Children's research department consistently tops the West of England clinical research network recruitment to Reproductive Health and Childbirth studies. From fertility to gynaecology, the department is committed to ensuring that all women – and in some cases their partners and babies - are offered the chance to participate in innovative and work leading research,
Want to find out more? Book a place at an upcoming event to meet our teams or explore current roles available below.
Maternity Support Workers are vital members of the direct care team who support registered practitioners to meet woman’s needs during their time in our care.
Our Maternity Support Workers are responsible for providing care and therapy to women as delegated by the registered practitioner and directed by the appropriate team leader.
We can offer excellent career development available through our tailored educational pathways.
To work as a Maternity Support Worker (band 3), you will need to have completed an Apprenticeship in Health Level 3 or a QCF Diploma Level 3 Health.
If you have not completed the above training and would like to work as a Maternity Support Worker, we can offer a training contract dependent on your educational requirements. Prior to undertaking the Band 3 Maternity Support Worker apprenticeship, the expectation is that you would have already completed a level 2 Healthcare Support Worker standard or equivalent qualification.
At the end of this education pathway, you will achieve a level 3 Apprenticeship in Health.
Our Apprenticeship team have recently received Matrix Standard accreditation. The Matrix Standard is the Department of Education’s (DFE) standard for ensuring the quality of the delivery of high-quality information, advice and guidance.
Working within our Obstetrics Scanning Department, based within our Antenatal Clinic, our Obstetric Sonographers perform a wide range of obstetric scans which include dating scans, first trimester combined screening scans, anomaly scans, assessment of fetal wellbeing, growth scans and umbilical artery doppler.
All of our sonographers work as independent reporting practitioners, working autonomously but also as an important part of the team with radiologists and the early pregnancy advanced nurse practitioners.
Our Obstetrics Scanning Department is a stand-alone service, supported by our team of Radiographers and Midwife Sonographers. We do not currently rotate staff through our main radiology service, although bespoke rotations may be available to support those who may wish to rotate.
We are proud to support our Sonographers in their practice and professional development.
As a Bank Mental Health Nurse, you will increase your skill set by working with multidisciplinary teams to deliver all aspects of patient care.
Your main duties will include:
Successful applicants for this role will:
The Clinical Competence Advisor will provide clinical guidance and advice for all matters relating to the nursing practice of bank Registered Nurses (RN) and bank Health Care Support Workers (HCSW), and other clinical roles and is professionally responsible for maintaining quality standards for the supply of clinical (Non-Medical) temporary Bank and Agency workers.
The post holder will play a pivotal role in the management and compliance of key performance indicators aligned to but not limited to complaints, concerns and clinical incidents reported via Datix involving Bank and Agency workers, Mandatory and Statutory Training (MaST) and
Temporary workers inductions, Bank and Agency.
The post holder will provide expert advice to internal, external service users and Bank workers across the organisation promoting compliance and clinical best practice across the organisation for the provision and usage of temporary workforce
The post requires an individual with the ability to work in the area of managing of complex discharge processes and a commitment to the further development of this essential service.
You will be a lead in:
Applicants will need to be able to demonstrate effective communication skills with an ability to ‘think laterally’ and problem solve complex situations, focusing on how best to meet the needs of the individual.
You will be a role model for the Integrated Discharge Service and Transfer of Care Hub both within the organisation and the wider system
The post holder will work towards the role of a skilled autonomous urological practitioner who works:
· Act autonomously with evidence-based guidelines; be accountable for own practice including clinical assessment, history taking, determine a differential diagnosis using appropriate diagnostics and starting treatment and/or referring to another speciality or discharging of patients.
· Able to utilise specialist skills and knowledge in urology to implement and deliver independent nurse led clinics, including new referrals, formulating clinical decisions and often complex treatment plans to manage their urological health care condition.
· Work in collaboration with professionals to give appropriate advice; support and education in relation to all aspects of urology and related issues, to ensure patients and their families receive sound clinical research-based care.
· Become a pivotal member of the of the extended multi-disciplinary team, providing triage service for new patients and refer to consultant lead as required.
· Work as a non-medical prescriber and prescribe appropriate medications within speciality and trust guidelines.
· Undertake urological diagnostics clinics, including (but no limited to) Flexible cystoscopy and adjuvant procedure including intra-vesical Botox, stent removal and guidewire catheter insertions, Prostate volume measurements and bladder instillations.
· Provide an on-call urology nurse service including bank holiday working.
· The post holder will be active in clinical audit helping to expand the service to ensure patients receive sustainable high-quality care that is safe and effective.
The post holder will lead the team in:
Panel Meetings: Participate in monthly local panel meetings to discuss and review cases, ensuring alignment with the latest guidelines and practices.
Working within our department, your main duties will include:
For a full and comprehensive list of the main duties of this job please see the attached job description.
The primary role of the post holder will be to facilitate the organisation and administration of Research Studies under the supervision of the Senior Research Midwives, Chief Investigator and the Principal Investigator (PI).
They will assess, plan, implement and evaluate expert research care and provide support to participants who are recruited onto the studies.
The research midwife or nurse, as part of the research team, will play a key role in ensuring that the study is conducted according to Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trial regulations 2004 and Amended regulations 2006).
They will facilitate the recruitment and consent of participants into W+C research studies, and maintain all data and case report forms relating to the trial.
In addition, they will contribute, as part of the team, to the analysis of research data and the compilation of research reports and publications
Although the post holder is employed to work in a specific area as outlined above they will be expected to move areas to meet the needs of our research across the trust should the need arise
Complex wound assessment and treatment.
Providing evidence based relevant information for patients and their family members both verbally and in writing, based on an individual assessment of the patient personal and health care needs.
Working in the outpatient setting.
Teaching colleagues.
Involvement in change and development within a multi-disciplinary team.
Audit and evaluation.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in dealing with complex and sensitive information with patients, their relatives and colleagues.
As a Bank Nurse, your responsibilities will include :
Applicants must:
We can offer midwives many exciting opportunities that will help to develop skills in all areas of maternity care, including in our antenatal, postnatal and birth settings, including the central delivery suite and midwifery led birth centres.