This exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced senior midwife to join the maternity team at ESHT as our Consultant Midwife.
Through strong leadership, the post holder will lead on initiatives and develop strategies to promote and facilitate childbirth in all clinical settings. As an expert midwife, they will have extensive theoretical and practical knowledge and experience of the clinical skills needed within a modern maternity setting. They will be expected to facilitate the advancement of choice and equality across the care continuum through teaching, research, and clinical practice and will act as the clinical midwifery expert in all clinical settings.
A key responsibility is to ensure that the families' experience is of the highest quality, inspiring public confidence. The post holder will ensure that all people are treated with compassion, dignity, and respect, placing value on the diversity of the local community and beyond. This will be achieved through high visibility, accessibility, and surveillance. The post holder will be expected to work clinically across all sites and will be an expert in promoting choice across all aspects of the pregnancy, birth, and postnatal care continuum.
Main duties of the job
ESHT provides maternity services in an obstetric unit at the Conquest Hospital, a midwifery-led unit at Eastbourne Hospital, as well as community services. We are leading the way in the implementation of the NHS Three-Year Single Delivery Plan (Maternity Transformation) initiatives.
We are looking for a dynamic, experienced midwife with the vision to improve services for women and their families as well as the working conditions for staff. Evidence of effective leadership experience working at management level is expected.
The successful candidate will work closely with the Head of Midwifery and Director of Midwifery to provide visible leadership to the midwifery team. They will drive forward the three-year single delivery plan (Maternity Transformation) agenda, supporting the implementation of all aspects of this programme.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Midwife
* Teaching accreditation ENB997 or equivalent
* Masters Degree in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience and knowledge
* Evidence of continued professional development-reviewing current practice and research developments within specialist area and application to clinical practice
* Leadership/Management training course
* M Phil/PhD or willingness to undertake
* Evidence of publications, conference presentations
Experience
* A significantly experienced practitioner with a minimum of 5 years recent post-registration experience - minimum 3 years at Band 7 or equivalent
* Able to demonstrate a range of midwifery experience
* Able to demonstrate research experience/knowledge
* Proven track record of audit experience
* Proven track record in change management/Quality Improvement methodology
* Proven track record of project management/leadership
* Proven track record in practice development
* Proven track record of multi-disciplinary work
* Experience of multi-agency/committee work outside of clinical activities
* Clear understanding of other disciplines' roles and expectations
* Proven track record and have demonstrable formal research expertise, knowledge, and skills
* Previous experience of student/staff supervision and clinical education at undergraduate level
* Previous experience of student supervision and clinical education at postgraduate and Masters level
* Experience of joint working with academic institutions ensuring the development of research programmes within the workplace
* Robust understanding of all aspects of Clinical Governance including previous experience of quality issues, audit, and risk management
* Proven track record of advocacy for women/consumer involvement
* Able to demonstrate work published
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£62,215 to £72,293 a year, per annum, pro rata
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