Consultant Midwife for Health Inequalities - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Description
Band 8b


Main area

  • Midwifery

Grade

  • Band 8b

Contract

  • Permanent

Hours

  • Full time hours per week

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Site

  • Nottingham University Hospitals Trust

Town

  • Nottingham

Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 per annum


Salary period

  • Yearly

Closing

  • 24/08/2023 23:59

Interview date

  • 01/09/2024
Job overview


An exciting opportunity as an inspirational and compassionate leader the Consultant Midwife will work across maternity and neonatal services in the development of the professional midwifery and nursing agenda to achieve consistency of practice, high standards of care, and innovation with a strong patient safety focus.

A lead Midwife for cultural diversity to support NUH in offering culturally appropriate care for the people who use our service, in line with upcoming national recommendations to address health inequalities

Taking the lead on developing best approach for tackling inequalities in care and providing a personalised service.


Supporting the development of colleagues and wider team in identifying and enacting quality improvement initiatives which underpin the Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity agenda.


The post holder will also promote and develop midwifery audit and research ensuring a multidisciplinary approach and actively participate in advancing midwifery practice at a strategic level.


The consultant midwife will work for up to 50% of the time in clinical practice providing expert advice to staff and hands on practical care in all practice settings where required.


The balance of these functions may vary from time to time in consultation with the Director of Midwifery and the Heads of Midwifery.

Main duties of the job


Leading and sustaining service redesign and empowering midwives to meet the needs of the local population in line with key objectives outlined in local and national policy documents.

Work proactively in embedding the requirements of National Maternity & Neonatal Strategy & Priorities e.g. NHS England 3 Year Maternity & Neonatal Delivery plan

Leading on the continual development of maternity care and quality improvement


Providing expert clinical advice to all medical and midwifery staff to ensure best practice standards are met that will improve outcomes for women and enable choice.


Making a significant contribution to the clinical governance agenda by ensuring that midwifery practice is evidence based and through the development of staff competencies at all levels of practice.

Developing the research and audit agenda always ensuring a multidisciplinary team (MDT) approach.

Develop strategies to ensure women with complex health needs benefits fully from a multidisciplinary approach. Also to lead along with MDT consultant colleagues in the implementation of strategies to reduce health inequalities.

Working for our organisation


With over 17,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population.

We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH.

We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve.

With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See detailed job description and person specification for the full description and responsibilities.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria

  • Management/ Leadership course or equivalent demonstrable experience
Experience

Essential criteria

  • Significant experience at a senior level including project management, change management, and multidisciplinary working
  • Understanding of the local priorities within the local health community
  • Extensive knowledge of the NHS, current clinical standards within Maternity services and Maternity safety and transformation, including LMNS strategy for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity and the NHS CORE20PLUS agenda.
Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential criteria

  • Ability to lead and build successful teams
  • Ability to influence and motivate staff to deliver challenging targets
Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential criteria

  • Sensitive to clinical and political demands
  • Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change
Planning and Organisation Skills

Essential criteria

  • Proven record of performance management skills and techniques to enable accurate realtime progress
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH.

We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve.

With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NU
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