Lead Midwife for Pre-term Birth Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior midwife to join our specialist midwifery team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust on a 12 month secondment.
We are looking for an experienced and passionate clinical midwife interested in improving safety and outcomes for mothers and neonates to support in providing high quality and safe care to families at risk of a preterm birth. The role requires leadership and influencing skills, specialist knowledge of preterm birth, optimisation and stabilisation for preterm birth, alongside supporting with the regional Maternal Medicine network.
The successful candidate will have oversight and support the development of processes. They will work in collaboration with existing leads for SBLCB, NHSR, preterm birth and public health along with colleagues from clinical effectiveness, neonatal teams, and governance teams. They will provide coordination of reporting and monitoring of preterm birth prevention and management in relation to SBLCB v3, Mat Neo SIP/NNAP and NHSR Maternity Incentive Scheme.
They will provide support to the preterm prevention clinic providing clinical support to colleagues working in the antenatal clinic, including telephone consultations, and providing support for the women in the clinics.
We are looking for a compassionate and approachable midwife whose role will be to achieve consistency of practice, high standards of care and innovation with a strong patient safety focus.
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journals Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated Kings Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.
Our culture of learning, compassion and taking a person-centred approach are at the roots of our organisation. We would love you to join us.
This advert closes on Tuesday 1 Apr 2025.
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Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
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