Specialist Midwife: Healthy Lifestyles and Public - Preston, United Kingdom - Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Preston, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Are you passionate, committed and knowledgeable about making a difference to the lives of mothers, families and babies? Are you eager to drive forward work to improve well-being and tackle inequalities to ensure every family is well-supported to give children the best start in life?

This post provides an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of mothers and babies.

Alongside a specialist midwifery team you will contribute towards prevention and tackling health inequalities, with specific action in a range of areas including smoking and Co2 monitoring, obesity, immunisation during pregnancy and the increasing ethnic and cultural diversity of childbearing women.

Develop and implement public health related care pathways and deliver public health education to colleagues and families.

Work as an autonomous practitioner, providing holistic midwifery and public health care / education to women and their families, specifically where individual lifestyle or behaviour impacts negatively on the health of their baby.

The post holder will work with all maternity service staff to inform, motivate and energise them so that they are able to offer the best possible care and support for women and families in relation to public health.

The post holder will work collaboratively with the specialist midwifery team, the department managers, the consultant midwife. The post holder will also work in close liaison with the local maternity and Neonatal systems.

The maternity service cares for around 4500 pregnant people and families per year.

With an overall CQC rating of good the maternity, obstetric and neonatal team work collaboratively to provide quality care that is safe, effective and well-led.

With 4 places of birth on offer, we are striving for excellence and to meet the national agenda.

Be responsible for providing specialist advice and support on all issues related to public health, providing professional leadership to service users and colleagues.

This will involve the identification of training needs, development of training programmes and the delivery of these programmes to all staff in contact with pregnant and postnatal women and their babies.

Provide clinical leadership and direction to the maternity team acting as a role model and service user advocate. They will assess, plan, and implement care providing advice and maintaining associated records.

Be responsible for managing and leading the public health maternity team in the provision of an in-house stop smoking service and maternity related health advice.

Lead smoke free pregnancy education and improvements in practice to support high quality, safe care provided by a highly competent workforce and working in collaboration with the practice educator

Work in partnership with service users, the multidisciplinary teams, and local stakeholders to improve and protect the health & well-being of families

Take a lead role in auditing practice, analysis of results and preparing reports for presentation.

Support quality improvement initiatives including identifying areas for improvement / themes arising from clinical incidents

Support the process for developing and updating clinical guidelines

Provide clinical care to women and their families if required

Always act in a manner that upholds the Trust's values and Nursing and Midwifery profession framework goals, working as part of a team to ensure that service user and relatives received excellent care with compassion.