Named Midwife for Safeguarding and Perinatal Mental Health

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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• Provide expert professional leadership regarding safeguarding children, safeguarding adults, domestic abuse, maternal mental health and complex social vulnerability.
• Act as the senior safeguarding and maternal mental health advisor for maternity and neonatal services, including private care.
• Provide consultation and expert advice regarding complex safeguarding and maternal mental health cases.
• Provide expert oversight and professional consultation for women with severe and enduring mental illness, safeguarding concerns and multiple disadvantages.
• Support professionals managing unborn babies/ babies subject to Child Protection Plans, Pre-Proceedings and Care Proceedings.
• Support the development of pathways for vulnerable women including those experiencing domestic abuse, substance misuse, homelessness, exploitation, trafficking, asylum seeking and other complex vulnerabilities.
• Ensure robust information sharing and multi-agency working.
• Ensure maternity services provide trauma-informed, culturally competent and personalised care to vulnerable women and families.
• Work collaboratively with Perinatal Mental Health Services/ Midwives to improve outcomes for women, infants and families.
• Ensure women and families receive equitable care that recognises safeguarding, public health and mental health needs across the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal pathway.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Midwife with current NMC registration
• First degree in Midwifery or equivalent professional experience
• Evidence of post-registration education in maternal mental health/perinatal mental health, safeguarding, leadership or public health

Desirable criteria

• Master's level study, or equivalent experience working at an advanced level in safeguarding, leadership or service development
• Leadership or management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial experience working within safeguarding, socially complex care and/or maternal mental health services
• Experience of managing, advising on and escalating highly complex safeguarding and Perinatal Mental Health cases
• Evidence of post-registration education in perinatal mental health, safeguarding, leadership or public health
• Experience of service improvement, audit, policy development and governance reporting
• Experience of contributing to safeguarding reviews, serious incident processes, complaints or legal proceedings

Desirable criteria

• Experience of leading cross-site or Trust-wide service improvement programmes

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Extensive knowledge of safeguarding children and adults legislation, statutory guidance and intercollegiate safeguarding requirements
• Managing, advising on and escalating highly complex safeguarding cases
• Providing safeguarding supervision, reflective practice or case consultation
• Ability to provide expert advice on highly complex, sensitive and contentious safeguarding and maternal mental health matters
• Extensive knowledge of safeguarding risks affecting unborn babies, newborns, pregnant women and families
• Understanding of CNST, CQC, NHS England and Trust governance requirements relating to safeguarding and Perinatal mental health
• Ability to analyse complex information, identify risk, make professional judgements and support safe decision-making Ability to analyse complex information, identify risk, make professional judgements and support safe decision-making
• Ability to build effective relationships with internal teams and multi-agency partners

Important

• There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date, this will be due to a high volume of applications. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please check your emails regularly (and your junk folder) as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
• In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
• During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
• Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.
• Some roles may require weekend shift working across multiple sites
• We operate a joint recruitment hub across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative Group. As part of this, your application and personal data may be shared with partner trusts within the group for recruitment and workforce purposes, in line with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Right to work

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