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Specialist Midwife - Drugs, Alcohol and Mental Health
NHS AfC: Band 7
Main area Specialist Midwives Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment for internal candidates) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 349-SMH-7065387*
Site Saint Mary's Managed Clinical Service Town Manchester Salary £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum (Pro Rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 10/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
Saint Mary’s Managed Clinical Service (MCS) are proud to be the largest maternity service in the country providing care for women and birthing people across Greater Manchester and surrounding areas, supporting around 17,500 births each year, cared for by over 700 whole time equivalent midwives. Saint Mary's MCS is a well-known centre of excellence, with an excellent reputation and a vibrant, lively working atmosphere.
All of our staff have been involved in developing our Nursing and Midwifery Values. We believe that they make Saint Mary's a better place for patients and staff. If you have the passion to provide kind, safe and excellent care we can offer you a great place to work and develop your career. We are focused on improving quality: for our patients, their carers/families and for our staff.
Maternity services at Saint Mary's Managed Clinical Service provide women living in Manchester, Trafford, Salford, the North West and beyond with primary, secondary and tertiary obstetric services. Saint Mary's is renowned both regionally and nationally for its research, clinical fetal and maternal medicine services. Saint Mary's has a very varied and complex patient population.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be experienced in the following:
1. Develop & implement programmes of evidenced based care planning for patient group & their families including reproductive health care.
2. Participate in the management of the perinatal mental health clinic & provide clinical expertise.
3. Provide direct patient care & have detailed clinical knowledge of the specialist area.
4. Develop & maintain effective communication systems both within & outside the trust & create an environment that encourages open communication & trust.
5. Ensure referral pathways are agreed & implemented with external agencies e.g. MASH (Manchester Action on Street Health).
6. Provide detailed & complex written/oral assessments for social services & court proceedings, work in close partnership with the safeguarding team.
7. Act as a resource in the coordination & effective management of the admission & discharge process.
8. Ensure that child protection & vulnerable adult legislation is adhered to within own practice & service.
9. Support the development & evaluation of policies/guidelines/protocols for specialty clinical practice & support the updating & monitoring of policies/guidelines/protocols specific to the role within MFT.
10. Contribute to the clinical effectiveness process, including adverse incident reporting/investigation & the management of complaints, as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualification
* Registered midwife
* Teaching and mentorship qualification
* Educated to degree level or equal clinical experience
* Evidence of continuing professional development
Knowledge and Experience
* Extensive experience as a band 6 midwife
* Knowledge of the public health agenda
* Recent evidence of continuing professional and personal development
* Works with MFT Values and Behaviours
* Experience of teaching
* Awareness of National and local health policy relating to infant feeding.
* Knowledge of multi-agency working together in child protection.
* Skills including and ability to use Excel data for reporting on infant feeding statistics
* Knowledge of multi-agency working
* Experienced Midwife
* Experience in dealing with complaints
Skills and Attributes
* Adaptable/ flexible approach
* An enthusiastic and supportive leader who motivates people
* Proven clinical skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Lynne Swann Job title Matron for Community Services and Birth Centre Email address Lynne.swann@mft.nhs.uk Telephone number 0161 291 2809
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