The successful candidate will achieve the role of Specialist Midwife Safeguarding, working closely with the Named Midwife Safeguarding, Maternity Safeguarding Team, wider safeguarding teams, the maternity senior leadership team & the maternity service, to ensure that the safeguarding arrangements are maintained and monitored. The Specialist Midwife Safeguarding is an extremely senior midwife within the organisation and will be responsible for ensuring that the safeguarding priorities and safeguarding strategy are embedded across the organisation and remain representative of the current local need.
The Specialist Midwife Safeguarding will lead on projects to ensure that safeguarding practice remains robust and evidence-based, embedding learning into practice and maintaining a Think Family Approach across the service and multi-agency teams. This will be underpinned by the National & Statutory Safeguarding Agendas.
They will lead on the development and delivery of safeguarding training, safeguarding supervision, policies, procedures, and processes. They will work closely with the local Safeguarding Partnerships to collaborate on multi-agency procedures and training. The Specialist Midwife will provide advice, guidance, and support to staff members across the service.
The Specialist Midwife Safeguarding will ensure that there are robust and meaningful multi-disciplinary and multi-agency assessments in place during the pre-birth period, leading on risk assessments to support the safeguarding of birthing people, their families, service users, and staff during care provision.
The Specialist Midwife will develop and share Birth Response Plans and Local Alerts to ensure that communication is clear, facilitating the safeguarding of the unborn baby and their family. The Specialist Midwife will lead on the development of risk management plans to appropriately respond to complex and high-risk safeguarding situations.
The Specialist Midwife Safeguarding will work alongside other specialist midwives and members of the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams to continue to embed the Early Help Agenda across maternity services. They will work closely with the wider safeguarding teams to ensure that midwives and other practitioners are supported in appropriate care planning when caring for birthing people, unborn & newborn babies, and their families, to address multifactorial risks within the complex safeguarding family dynamics; supporting the Named Midwife Safeguarding with extremely complex safeguarding situations including high-risk domestic abuse, honour-based abuse, female genital mutilation, exploitation, modern slavery, and trafficking.
The Specialist Midwife will work closely with safeguarding adult teams to ensure that vulnerable adults are safeguarded. They will support staff when caring for adults where there are concerns about Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards are applicable. They will also support staff when caring for individuals where there are safeguarding concerns pertaining to adults with complex health needs, including learning disabilities.
The Specialist Midwife will work alongside the domestic abuse team to ensure that enquiry and response to domestic abuse remains embedded in practice and that practitioners feel confident in identifying and responding to domestic abuse during pregnancy.
The Specialist Midwife will lead the support of staff members who are providing safeguarding evidence and contributing to safeguarding proceedings within court. The Specialist Midwife Safeguarding will attend multi-agency meetings to support risk assessment and analysis, ensuring multi-agency plans are robust.
In collaboration with the Named Midwife Safeguarding, the Specialist Midwife Safeguarding will work with multi-agency partners to ensure that the learning from local & national safeguarding reviews are identified, responded to, and learning is embedded within safeguarding practice across the Trust. The Specialist Midwife will also lead on quality assurance methods to ensure that the key safeguarding priorities are embedded within practice and to monitor and maintain high standards of practice.
The Specialist Midwife Safeguarding will work closely with the midwifery service, joining and chairing meetings to ensure that safeguarding priorities are shared, learning and risks are reviewed appropriately, and safeguarding practice continually evolves. They will work closely with teams, including workforce & OD, to monitor, improve, and support safeguarding practice. As a senior midwife within the safeguarding team, they will be responsible for line management responsibilities and leadership, as delegated by the Named Midwife Safeguarding.
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