Professional Midwifery Advocate and Patient Experience Lead Midwife

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will:

• Support midwives to identify their own personal action for quality improvement.
• The post holder will use their understanding of personal and professional resilience and support others to develop this attribute.
• Ensure that there is a strong interface between the PMA and clinical governance at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust.
• Apply their expertise in midwifery to assist the Director, Deputy Directors of Midwifery, and Consultant Midwives with the implementation and oversight of midwifery practice, ensuring strong clinical governance assurance systems are established for midwifery activities.
• Provide support to midwives in sharing of good practice learnt through the maternity services' internal risk management processes with the aim of reducing the incidence of harm and obstetric litigation cases.
• Be involved in continuous monitoring and maintaining quality standards of clinical practice through a variety of ways for example audit.
• Act as a role model at all times and promote a high standard of safe and effective care which is based upon best evidence.
• Be accountable for monitoring and demonstrating the impact of the PMA and Listening Service through agreed metrics including uptake of restorative supervision, staff experience measures, retention, sickness absence, patient experience outcomes and quality improvement indicators

Person specification

meeting desired essential criteria

Essential criteria

• Registered Midwife with experience of practice in all areas
• Completion of recognised Professional Midwifery Advocate training course
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Mentorship qualification
• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Evidence of recent midwifery research and audit
• IT skills, including report writing
• Experience of working within a team and effective teamwork

Desirable criteria

• Professional Midwifery Advocate Level 7 qualification
• MSc in relevant subject
• Experience of birth planning and/or those clients who are requesting care out of guidance
• Experience of leading quality improvement programmes
• Experience of leading workforce culture, staff wellbeing or psychological safety initiatives

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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