Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior midwife to join our specialist midwifery team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust on a 12 month secondment.
We are looking for an experienced and passionate clinical midwife interested in improving safety and outcomes for mothers and neonates to support in providing high quality and safe care to families at risk of a preterm birth. The role requires leadership and influencing skills, specialist knowledge of preterm birth, optimisation and stabilisation for preterm birth, alongside supporting with the regional Maternal Medicine network.
The successful candidate will have oversight and support the development of processes. They will work in collaboration with existing leads for SBLCB, NHSR, preterm birth and public health along with colleagues from clinical effectiveness, neonatal teams, and governance teams. They will provide coordination of reporting and monitoring of preterm birth prevention and management in relation to SBLCB v3, Mat Neo SIP/NNAP and NHSR Maternity Incentive Scheme.
They will provide support to the preterm prevention clinic providing clinical support to colleagues working in the antenatal clinic, including telephone consultations, and providing support for the women in the clinics.
We are looking for a compassionate and approachable midwife whose role will be to achieve consistency of practice, high standards of care and innovation with a strong patient safety focus.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.
Our culture of learning, compassion and taking a person-centred approach are at the roots of our organisation. We would love you to join us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexible and adaptable
- Enhanced CRB clearance
Knowledge
Essential
- A good understanding of SBLCB and preterm birth prevention and management
- Demonstrate insight in the use of data to influence patient care and services
- Ability to respond to, prioritise analyse complex problems/situations and ensure effective interventions are put in place.
- Ability to generate and present reports and documents
- Deal effectively with clinical issues within defined procedures/ guidelines
- Use of appraisal, personal development review and training needs analysis
Desirable
- Demonstrate a knowledge of current issues related to NHS strategy and policy
- Use of clinical benchmarking to influence patient care)
- Use of the knowledge and skills framework
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Degree level study (or equivalent)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Continuing professional development/ reflective profile
- Teaching and Assessing qualification
Desirable
- Completion of all local competency packages
- Research training/experience ECDL
- Masters level qualification
- Attendance at conferences / study days
Experience
Essential
- Experience of caring for women at risk of or in preterm labour
- Substantive Managerial / leadership experience at band 6 in the NHS
- Evidence of participating in organisational change that has led to changes in quality
- Proven track record in leadership and management
- Evidence of leading projects
- Ability to respond to, prioritise and analyse complex problems/situations and ensure effective interventions are put in place.
- Ability to generate and present reports and documents.
- Deal effectively with clinical issues within defined procedures/guidelines
- Recruitment and selection of staff
Desirable
- Audit or research within the clinical area
- Formal teaching of groups of staff
- Budget management
- Has undertaken packages relevant to role and specialty
- Successful implementation and management of a change process
- Evidence of formal teaching experience
Person Specification
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexible and adaptable
- Enhanced CRB clearance
Knowledge
Essential
- A good understanding of SBLCB and preterm birth prevention and management
- Demonstrate insight in the use of data to influence patient care and services
- Ability to respond to, prioritise analyse complex problems/situations and ensure effective interventions are put in place.
- Ability to generate and present reports and documents
- Deal effectively with clinical issues within defined procedures/ guidelines
- Use of appraisal, personal development review and training needs analysis
Desirable
- Demonstrate a knowledge of current issues related to NHS strategy and policy
- Use of clinical benchmarking to influence patient care)
- Use of the knowledge and skills framework
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Degree level study (or equivalent)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Continuing professional development/ reflective profile
- Teaching and Assessing qualification
Desirable
- Completion of all local competency packages
- Research training/experience ECDL
- Masters level qualification
- Attendance at conferences / study days
Experience
Essential
- Experience of caring for women at risk of or in preterm labour
- Substantive Managerial / leadership experience at band 6 in the NHS
- Evidence of participating in organisational change that has led to changes in quality
- Proven track record in leadership and management
- Evidence of leading projects
- Ability to respond to, prioritise and analyse complex problems/situations and ensure effective interventions are put in place.
- Ability to generate and present reports and documents.
- Deal effectively with clinical issues within defined procedures/guidelines
- Recruitment and selection of staff
Desirable
- Audit or research within the clinical area
- Formal teaching of groups of staff
- Budget management
- Has undertaken packages relevant to role and specialty
- Successful implementation and management of a change process
- Evidence of formal teaching experience
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).
