Are you or someone you know looking for your first or next role in midwifery?
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton are looking for midwives to join a rewarding career at #TeamUHDB caring for pregnant women and their families. Whether you are newly qualified or experienced, we want to hear from you.
UHDB's Maternity and Neonatal services have been recognised by the global children's wellbeing organisation, UNICEF, for their work in encouraging more parents to breastfeed their children and ensuring, when parents make an informed decision to use formula milk preparation, they do so safely.
A midwife who has spent 47 years working in the NHS says she would "do it all over again" if she had the chance, as she reflected on her career as we mark the NHS' 75th anniversary.
Carol Adcock, 65, currently works as a midwife in Fetal Medicine at Royal Derby Hospital, and has known from an early age that she wanted to work in healthcare in some way:
As our NHS reaches its historic 75th birthday, we want to recognise the vital role that international recruitment has played in shaping the NHS into what it is today - and how it affects our future.
Here at UHDB, internationally-recruited colleagues across our organisation play a vital role in delivering exceptional patient care. We are hugely privileged that talented people from across have colleagues from over 100 different countries, recently captured in our One World, One #TeamUHDB flag that was hoisted at our Royal Derby Hospital (RDH) site earlier this year >
We caught up with some of our most recent internationally-recruited midwives for NHS 75 - to hear about their journey to UHDB and their motivation for providing maternity care for our communities.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Trust (UHDB) is taking part in an important national research study looking at whether testing pregnant women to see if they carry group B Streptococcus (GBS) reduces the risk of infection in new-born babies.