Employer: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Saint Mary's Oxford Road Campus
Town: Manchester
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 Per Annum (Pro Rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/11/2024 23:59
Band 8b
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an inspirational and compassionate Consultant Midwife to join our team, working across maternity services to support the professional midwifery agenda to achieve consistency of practice and high standards of care for all women and birthing people.
The postholder will support the current Consultant Midwife and work closely with senior leaders within our maternity service, other maternity teams and key stakeholders to develop and support a maternity service that is focused on quality, safety, personalised care and experience. You will be passionate about strong, visible and compassionate leadership and be willing to lead and facilitate change through clinical practice, research, audit, education and training.
Main duties of the job
Clinical expert in field of midwifery and fulfil the 4 domains of Midwife Consultant:
1. Advanced & expert level practice within midwifery
2. Development & provision of education and training
3. Service development, evaluation, research and audit
Work across SMH service, support GMEC Local Maternity & Neonatal System. Provide Leadership, expert practice & advanced knowledge, integrating research evidence into practice and contributing/leading research in clinical field. Minimum of 50% of portfolio in direct autonomous clinical practice and leadership.
Monitor and improve standards through: supervision of practice, clinical audit, identifying research, disseminating findings and promoting translation into practice, teaching and supporting colleagues, provision of skilled leadership. Contribute to safeguarding & clinical effectiveness in service by participating in audit and research in the MDT in specialist field. Practice across the health economy as required by client group.
Be involved with national/international research contributing to networks, supporting development of centres of excellence in midwifery.
Maintain and develop local/national profile as Consultant Midwife by being leader in further developing services for women.
Job plan will be agreed to meet service needs, reviewed annually or more as required.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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 28,000 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
Knowledge
* Knowledge of current health and social care agendas within the NHS
* Knowledge of applying and translating research to practice
Training and experience
* Extensive experience of working at an advanced clinical level of midwifery practice
* Evidence of significant involvement in change management & conflict resolution
* Evidence of involvement in local & national networks
* Experience of leading on research or audit
* Experience of working with MNVPs
Skills and abilities
* Evidence of ability to work in demanding environment
* Evidence of high level communication skills - written, personal and oral
* Published in peer-reviewed journals
Qualifications
* Registered midwife
* Master's qualification or equivalent
* Evidence of post-registration education and development
* Teaching qualification
* Working towards PhD
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: Dr Kylie Watson
Job title: Consultant Midwife
Email address: kylie.watson@mft.nhs.uk
Additional information:
Beverley O'Connor
Deputy Director of Nursing and Midwifery
beverley.o'connor@mft.nhs.uk
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