Job summary
We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated midwife to join and lead the Professional Midwifery Advocate team
This is a great opportunity for an experienced Professional Midwifery Advocate to take on a leadership role and help shape how this service is provided. As the Lead PMA your main focus will be to work collaboratively with colleagues to improve the quality of care for women/birthing people and their babies; while also supporting midwives.
You will be trained to use and embed the A.EQUIP model within our maternity service. As the Lead PMA you will play a crucial role in promoting safe, high-quality care by promoting quality improvement, facilitating learning, improve staff wellbeing through the provision of restorative supervision and being an advocate for the rights and choices for women/birthing people in our care. This post is based at University Hospital Lewisham but requires cross site working.
The role requires you to have:
Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) qualification and experience in delivery restorative supervision
A strong background in midwifery leadership and service development
Excellent communication, coaching and influencing skills
Experience in facilitating birth reflection / options clinic
A commitment to enhancing midwifery practice and supporting workforce wellbeing.
Please Note this post may close early.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to lead and coordinate the sessional PMA team to deliver effective clinical restorative supervision
You will support midwives in their professional growth, resilience and wellbeing.
Working collaboratively with the wider maternity leadership team with the focus to enhance the way maternity services are provided is a key focus for this role.
Promoting a culture of safety, learning, cultural humility and continuous learning are the cornerstones upon which the delivery of this role's objectives are based while ensuring compliance with national maternity standards and best practices.
About us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Lead Professional Midwifery Advocate is a fundamental leadership and advocacy role designed to deploy the A-EQUIP model. This supports staff through a continuous improvement process that builds upon personal and professional resilience, enhances quality of care for women and supports preparedness for midwives in appraisal and professional revalidation.
The ultimate aim is that this continuous improvement process of the A-EQUIP model will become an intrinsic part of everyones job, every day in all parts of the system (NHS England 2016).
The post holder will be employed by Lewisham and Greenwich Trust, based in the maternity departments; it is a cross-site role.
Responsibilitiesa) The post holder will take the lead in embedding the elements of the A-EQUIP model, utilising the guidance issued by NHS England. A summary of this model is at the end of this document.
b) Take the lead in coordinating the availability of the listening clinic/birth reflections service for women and birthing people and their families.
c) Manage midwifery and support staff and the clinical area, as the MOC, to help ensure the smooth running of the service.
d) The post holder will be part of the senior midwifery team
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Lead Professional Midwifery Advocate is a fundamental leadership and advocacy role designed to deploy the A-EQUIP model. This supports staff through a continuous improvement process that builds upon personal and professional resilience, enhances quality of care for women and supports preparedness for midwives in appraisal and professional revalidation.
The ultimate aim is that this continuous improvement process of the A-EQUIP model will become an intrinsic part of everyones job, every day in all parts of the system (NHS England 2016).
The post holder will be employed by Lewisham and Greenwich Trust, based in the maternity departments; it is a cross-site role.
Responsibilitiesa) The post holder will take the lead in embedding the elements of the A-EQUIP model, utilising the guidance issued by NHS England. A summary of this model is at the end of this document.
b) Take the lead in coordinating the availability of the listening clinic/birth reflections service for women and birthing people and their families.
c) Manage midwifery and support staff and the clinical area, as the MOC, to help ensure the smooth running of the service.
d) The post holder will be part of the senior midwifery team
Person Specification
Analytical
Essential
- Evidence of gathering, analysing, interpreting and disseminating in-depth information.
Planning Skills
Essential
- Evidence of working in a complex environment and coping with competing priorities.
- Evidence of being able to manage her own diary via Microsoft Outlook, organise and manage meetings as a PMA
Desirable
Physical Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate IT skills in using applications e.g. Word, PowerPoint and Excell spreadsheets
- oEvdence of excellent skills in report writing
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Registered midwife
- Demonstrable experience of broad knowledge of midwifery practice and A Equip model
- Completion of PMA training programme
- Educated to BSc level or equivalent
- Is a qualified practice assessor
- Demonstrable well-developed leadership skills
- Professional credibility with senior colleagues, and Midwives
- ECDL or equivalent experience
- Evidence of CPD
- Proven track record of a leadership role
- Management skills including chairing meetings, presentations, report writing, managing change, performance management
- A thorough understanding of the NMC Code (2015).
- An appreciation of strategic issues affecting health and health care provision
- Knowledge of clinical governance and its implementation.
Desirable
Communication Skills
Essential
- Possession of well-developed negotiation, networking and communication skills
- Knowledge of issues of confidentiality and demonstrate appropriateness in dealing with sensitive personal, patient and corporate information.
- Experience of working as part of a team and can demonstrate principles of effective team working
Desirable
- Has birth planned women with complex needs / requesting care of guidance
- Undertaken debriefs with women following their maternity experience
Autonomy
Essential
- Experience of working autonomously in planning and organising own diary
- Experience of working with a wide range of disparate individuals
Person Specification
Analytical
Essential
- Evidence of gathering, analysing, interpreting and disseminating in-depth information.
Planning Skills
Essential
- Evidence of working in a complex environment and coping with competing priorities.
- Evidence of being able to manage her own diary via Microsoft Outlook, organise and manage meetings as a PMA
Desirable
Physical Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate IT skills in using applications e.g. Word, PowerPoint and Excell spreadsheets
- oEvdence of excellent skills in report writing
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Registered midwife
- Demonstrable experience of broad knowledge of midwifery practice and A Equip model
- Completion of PMA training programme
- Educated to BSc level or equivalent
- Is a qualified practice assessor
- Demonstrable well-developed leadership skills
- Professional credibility with senior colleagues, and Midwives
- ECDL or equivalent experience
- Evidence of CPD
- Proven track record of a leadership role
- Management skills including chairing meetings, presentations, report writing, managing change, performance management
- A thorough understanding of the NMC Code (2015).
- An appreciation of strategic issues affecting health and health care provision
- Knowledge of clinical governance and its implementation.
Desirable
Communication Skills
Essential
- Possession of well-developed negotiation, networking and communication skills
- Knowledge of issues of confidentiality and demonstrate appropriateness in dealing with sensitive personal, patient and corporate information.
- Experience of working as part of a team and can demonstrate principles of effective team working
Desirable
- Has birth planned women with complex needs / requesting care of guidance
- Undertaken debriefs with women following their maternity experience
Autonomy
Essential
- Experience of working autonomously in planning and organising own diary
- Experience of working with a wide range of disparate individuals
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
