Job summary
The Close Relative Relationship Midwife will work as part of a dynamic team delivering high quality care by supporting managers and staff across the maternity service.
The post holder will proactively work with expectant families from Pakistani ethnic groups and those at greater risk from genetic related disorders, providing greater awareness and improving access to genetic services for families and enabling informed reproductive decision-making.
The fixed term post is for 6 months with further extension.
The post holder will:
Ensure timely referrals to the genetic service
Initiate sensitive, appropriate conversations to those affected with autosomal recessive disorders linked to close relative relationship
Establish the role within the midwifery team and be a point of contact and/or referral for other midwives.
Ensure a common understanding of genetic risk
Promote the use of standardised resources and materials
Disseminate learning and support teams
Ensure open communication and with key stakeholders and service users
Main duties of the job
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to deal with complex and sensitive situations
Apply attention to detail extracting important and relevant information.
Good analytical and problem solving skills
Intermediate keyboard skills.
Ability to work without supervision.
An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
Fluent in Urdu, ability to understand and communicate in Urdu/ Punjabi/ Patwari or similar dialects and to ensure those at greater risk from genetic related disorders are supported.
Trustworthy and confident individual dedicated to high quality focused care.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinician with current NMC midwifery registration.
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.
Desirable
- Evidence of genetic training/ experience in field of genetics
Experience
Essential
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas, including an understanding of both genomics/genetics and midwifery
- Specialist knowledge in a relevant subject to post graduate level
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of health services.
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management.
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management and/or health information systems development.
- Workforce development knowledge and experience.
Desirable
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Project.
- Previous experience in similar role in public sector.
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.
- Evidence of success in effective project and programme management.
- Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence.
- Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
- Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt, and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Strategic thinking -- ability to anticipate.
- Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis.
- Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem -solving and analytical skills
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Skills for supporting project management.
- Previous experience in project management and planning. Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support.
- Skills for managing projects ensuring they meet financial targets.
- Skills for manipulating information.
- Intermediate keyboard skills.
- Ability to work without supervision.
- Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and other workloads to changing and often tight deadlines.
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
- Empathetic practitioner who reflects on their positioning in relation to winning the trust and confidence of the patients they support.
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects, and learns from the contribution of others.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations.
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity considering and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda.
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity.
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
Desirable
- Fluent in Urdu, ability to understand and communicate in Urdu/ Punjabi/ Patwari or similar dialects and to ensure those at greater risk from genetic related disorders are supported.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinician with current NMC midwifery registration.
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.
Desirable
- Evidence of genetic training/ experience in field of genetics
Experience
Essential
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas, including an understanding of both genomics/genetics and midwifery
- Specialist knowledge in a relevant subject to post graduate level
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of health services.
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management.
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management and/or health information systems development.
- Workforce development knowledge and experience.
Desirable
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Project.
- Previous experience in similar role in public sector.
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.
- Evidence of success in effective project and programme management.
- Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence.
- Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
- Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt, and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Strategic thinking -- ability to anticipate.
- Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis.
- Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem -solving and analytical skills
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Skills for supporting project management.
- Previous experience in project management and planning. Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support.
- Skills for managing projects ensuring they meet financial targets.
- Skills for manipulating information.
- Intermediate keyboard skills.
- Ability to work without supervision.
- Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and other workloads to changing and often tight deadlines.
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
- Empathetic practitioner who reflects on their positioning in relation to winning the trust and confidence of the patients they support.
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects, and learns from the contribution of others.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations.
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity considering and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda.
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity.
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
Desirable
- Fluent in Urdu, ability to understand and communicate in Urdu/ Punjabi/ Patwari or similar dialects and to ensure those at greater risk from genetic related disorders are supported.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
