Consultant Midwife

Job description

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

Job overview

About the Role

The Consultant Midwife is an expert clinical practitioner, professional leader and strategic partner who will shape the development of safe, personalised, equitable and evidence-based maternity care across Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Working across the four pillars of expert practice; professional leadership and consultancy; education and workforce development; and service development, research and evaluation, the postholder will maintain a visible clinical contribution and provide authoritative advice in complex and uncertain clinical circumstances.

The postholder will work with women, families, staff, multidisciplinary partners and the Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership to identify priorities, co-produce improvement and ensure that service redesign responds to lived experience, clinical evidence and variation in access, experience and outcomes. They will support implementation of learning from national maternity and neonatal reviews, local reviews, incidents, complaints, audit and research, and will build workforce capability for innovation and sustained improvement.
About You

You will be an experienced senior midwife with a strong track record of leadership, service improvement and staff development. You will demonstrate credibility, compassion and resilience, with the ability to influence at senior level and lead teams through change while maintaining high standards of care.

Main duties of the job

Role Summary

Provide expert, autonomous clinical leadership in complex and uncertain maternity care, offering advice on clinical decision-making, escalation, referral and transfer of care. Maintain a visible clinical presence of up to 50% of the role, supporting women with complex needs and enabling midwives to practise confidently and autonomously. Champion equitable, culturally responsive care, challenging bias and addressing variation in access, experience and outcomes.

Provide strategic professional leadership, working across organisational boundaries to drive service redesign, innovation and continuous improvement. Work with women, families, the MNVP and system partners to co-produce improvements and ensure lived experience, safety, workforce and outcome data inform service development. Contribute to maternity strategy, regional and national networks, deputise for the Director of Midwifery and participate in the on-call rota.

Lead education and workforce development, working with higher education, governance and improvement teams to translate learning into practice and strengthen clinical judgement, leadership and improvement capability.

Lead audit, evaluation and evidence-based practice, using clinical, workforce, experience and disaggregated perinatal data to identify variation and improvement priorities. Promote research participation, evaluate the impact and equity of service changes, and disseminate learning and best practice.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

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