Named Midwife for Safeguarding Children - Salisbury, United Kingdom - Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

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Salisbury, United Kingdom

3 days ago

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Description

As the post holder you will have a knowledge and understanding of the Safeguarding agenda for Maternity and Neonatal services, work closely with the Director of Maternity and other managers within the maternity service and provide support and advice to staff on safeguarding procedures and policies.

The post holder will be the Named Midwife for Safeguarding Children within the Women and Newborn Division at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.

This will involve taking lead to ensure ensure the requirements set out in Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018), Health and Social Care Act & Care Act are met.

This work will incorporate the key elements of the Children Acts (1989 and 2004) and Working Together to Safeguard Children and the Care Quality Commission Core Standards.

The named Midwife for Safeguarding will establish and maintain robust systems and processes to ensure the service meets local and national recommendations in relation to safeguarding and child protection training, reporting, participation in serious case reviews and supervision for midwives.

They will also ensure all Maternity staff are able to identify concerns and understand their duty to act in accordance with current guidance, policy, and legislation to safeguard the welfare and rights of all children and adults.

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us.

Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre.

We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding.

You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.

On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Please see the Job description and person specification attached for the main responsibilities of the role.