Job summary
Could you be University Hospital's Plymouth's first Consultant Midwife?
We look forward to welcoming a Consultant Midwife to be an integral part of the Maternity Senior Leadership Team.
As the first post holder this is an exciting opportunity to lead the way within an organisation that recognises and values consultant practice; indeed, we have recently appointed an organisational Consultant Practice Lead.
If you are a strategic thinker, an influencer and can lead on system wide changes we would love to hear from you. Our ideal candidate will compliment the Senior Midwifery team by bringing a range of midwifery experience and exceptional clinical, academic and research ability.
We would encourage you to read the comprehensive job description. The post will be characterised by the four principle role functions as described in the Department of Health (DH) guidelines.
Expert Midwifery Practice and Strategic Service DevelopmentProfessional leadership and consultancyEducation training and developmentResearch, Quality Improvement and evaluation
Interested?
Please contact:
Sue Wilkins (susanwilkins1@nhs.net)
Director of Maternity Services/ Midwifery
Main duties of the job
***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as 'Priority' and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***
The Consultant Midwife:
- Responsible for the strategic oversight of the delivery of services that identify and reduce health inequalities for maternity patients
- Conduct consultant midwife clinics for debriefing and request for birth outside of guidance, ensuring correct governance is followed
- Lead for research; supporting the research team in promoting and securing research studies within the department
- Support lead for screening and immunisation services
- Lead for health promotion, representing the department in trust wide and national forums.
- Lead for mental health
- Lead the ongoing implementation of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle and ensure compliance is reported appropriately
- Conduct consultant midwife clinics for debriefing and request for birth outside of guidance, ensuring correct governance is followed
- Lead for public health initiatives inside and outside of the organisation in collaboration with external agencies
They will also empower clinical leaders of services, midwives, practice development midwives and professional midwifery advocates. The role will involve being an expert, autonomous practitioner of midwifery, a role model for midwives and a reference for obstetric colleagues.
About us
We are a people business - where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY. If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment team on 01752 432100. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication and Relationship Skills
- Provides and receives highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information with key stakeholders at all organisational This includes supporting local, system, regional and national projects to ensure all parties are fully briefed and consulted in implementing best practice relating to advanced clinical practice.
- Communicates highly sensitive, complex condition related information to patients, their relatives and/or carers using a compassionate, empathetic, and reassuring approach.
- Be at the forefront of inspiring and engaging in cross-boundary working with clinical practice initiatives across the system and beyond.
- Utilise a positive approach to working with difference and diversity, challenging stigma, and using the best possible communication methods.
- Utilise well-developed mediating and interpersonal skills in appropriate situations.
- Understands and is responsive to barriers to understanding both when delivering and receiving information.
- Provides effective professional and compassionate leadership.
- Exhibits the highest level of interprofessional and communication skills and develop effective communication strategies with members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Receives, provides, analyses, evaluates, and synthesise highly complex information and present this information to a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Deals with highly complex and conflicting subject matter problems in day-to-day work including the management of potentially antagonistic situations with patients, staff, and other stakeholders.
- Forms relationships with staff and managers across the Trust and system to build trust and enhance the reputation of UHP.
- Uses expert knowledge and experience to provide professional advice and support to nurses, allied health professionals, midwives, health care scientists, pharmacists, medical associate professions, human resource services and other staff and managers at service, corporate or system level.
- Ensures awareness of sources of support and guidance and provide information in an acceptable format to service users, recognising any difficulties and referring where appropriate.
- Maintains confidentiality as required by professional, local, and national policy. Acknowledges situations where a breach of confidentiality is legal and ethical.
- Takes responsibility for the delivery of a detailed, accurate and potentially complex clinical handover to colleagues in other specialities and primary care e.g., General Practitioners
- Provides feedback to other workers on their communication at appropriate times.
- Adapts presentation style to settings ranging from one to one, to large/very large groups.
- Presents complex, sensitive, or contentious information to large groups.
- Maintains professional approach when working in potentially antagonistic, hostile, or highly emotive environments.
- Understands barriers to acceptance and is responsive to different communication strategies and/or approaches.
- Communicates service-related information to senior managers, staff, external agencies, drawing upon highly developed motivational, persuasive, negotiating and reassuring skills.
- Present specialist information to large groups of multi-professional staff.
- Lead on formal presentations at a local, regional, national, and international level.
- Demonstrate expertise and compassion in managing/reconciling conflicting views, where there are significant barriers to acceptance or understanding.
- Reconciles inter and intra professional difference of opinions.
- Provide direct and indirect consultancy in different situations, sharing expertise with the widest possible audience and developing and sustaining the capacity and capability of the workforce.
- Create a culture of effectiveness, inclusiveness, and excellence across how services are traditionally delivered, to develop high-performing, independent health-care teams across the system; and good places to work, where people matter and people from all backgrounds can excel.
- Celebrate high-performing teams that support staffs well-being and demonstrate commitment and empowerment in line with clear principles, values, and ways of working.
- Maintain a high profile within the Trust and outside, providing a contribution to the achievement of organisational goals and ambitions.
- Develop a questioning, open and transparent culture within practice that will enable professionals, clients and carers to take part in the development of excellent care.
For further details, please see the attached JD.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication and Relationship Skills
- Provides and receives highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information with key stakeholders at all organisational This includes supporting local, system, regional and national projects to ensure all parties are fully briefed and consulted in implementing best practice relating to advanced clinical practice.
- Communicates highly sensitive, complex condition related information to patients, their relatives and/or carers using a compassionate, empathetic, and reassuring approach.
- Be at the forefront of inspiring and engaging in cross-boundary working with clinical practice initiatives across the system and beyond.
- Utilise a positive approach to working with difference and diversity, challenging stigma, and using the best possible communication methods.
- Utilise well-developed mediating and interpersonal skills in appropriate situations.
- Understands and is responsive to barriers to understanding both when delivering and receiving information.
- Provides effective professional and compassionate leadership.
- Exhibits the highest level of interprofessional and communication skills and develop effective communication strategies with members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Receives, provides, analyses, evaluates, and synthesise highly complex information and present this information to a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Deals with highly complex and conflicting subject matter problems in day-to-day work including the management of potentially antagonistic situations with patients, staff, and other stakeholders.
- Forms relationships with staff and managers across the Trust and system to build trust and enhance the reputation of UHP.
- Uses expert knowledge and experience to provide professional advice and support to nurses, allied health professionals, midwives, health care scientists, pharmacists, medical associate professions, human resource services and other staff and managers at service, corporate or system level.
- Ensures awareness of sources of support and guidance and provide information in an acceptable format to service users, recognising any difficulties and referring where appropriate.
- Maintains confidentiality as required by professional, local, and national policy. Acknowledges situations where a breach of confidentiality is legal and ethical.
- Takes responsibility for the delivery of a detailed, accurate and potentially complex clinical handover to colleagues in other specialities and primary care e.g., General Practitioners
- Provides feedback to other workers on their communication at appropriate times.
- Adapts presentation style to settings ranging from one to one, to large/very large groups.
- Presents complex, sensitive, or contentious information to large groups.
- Maintains professional approach when working in potentially antagonistic, hostile, or highly emotive environments.
- Understands barriers to acceptance and is responsive to different communication strategies and/or approaches.
- Communicates service-related information to senior managers, staff, external agencies, drawing upon highly developed motivational, persuasive, negotiating and reassuring skills.
- Present specialist information to large groups of multi-professional staff.
- Lead on formal presentations at a local, regional, national, and international level.
- Demonstrate expertise and compassion in managing/reconciling conflicting views, where there are significant barriers to acceptance or understanding.
- Reconciles inter and intra professional difference of opinions.
- Provide direct and indirect consultancy in different situations, sharing expertise with the widest possible audience and developing and sustaining the capacity and capability of the workforce.
- Create a culture of effectiveness, inclusiveness, and excellence across how services are traditionally delivered, to develop high-performing, independent health-care teams across the system; and good places to work, where people matter and people from all backgrounds can excel.
- Celebrate high-performing teams that support staffs well-being and demonstrate commitment and empowerment in line with clear principles, values, and ways of working.
- Maintain a high profile within the Trust and outside, providing a contribution to the achievement of organisational goals and ambitions.
- Develop a questioning, open and transparent culture within practice that will enable professionals, clients and carers to take part in the development of excellent care.
For further details, please see the attached JD.
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- oExtensive demonstrable experience in the field of Maternity
- oLeading or influencing change
- oProven evidence of continuous professional development, demonstrable via portfolio of evidence
- oLeading or facilitating audit and quality improvement projects
- oClinical research, participation, dissemination, and application
- oProven knowledge and demonstrable experience in clinical governance, risk management and quality assurance
- oLeadership experience
- oApplication of national guidance pertinent to role
- oPresentation skills
- oWriting and implementing protocols and policy documents.
- oCounselling skills
Desirable
- oFacilitation/Coaching skills
- oInvolvement in regional/national seminars/conferences.
- oProject management
- oDemonstrable experience of multi-professional education at a range of academic/professional levels
Qualifications
Essential
- oStatutory Registered Healthcare professional
- oMaster's degree (MSc/MA) in relevant/appropriate subject
- oWillingness to work towards Doctoral Degree (PhD) or equivalent
Desirable
- oTeaching qualification
- oDoctorate Degree (PhD) or equivalent
- oLeadership/managerial qualification
- oProfessional Nurse/Midwifery Advocate or equivalent
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential
- oCommunicating with a wide variety of communities
- oTime management within a complex and diverse workload
- oCapable to simultaneously work autonomously and as part of a diverse multi-professional team, valuing the contribution brought by all members
- oAble to use and develop a range of relevant information technology applications and support the delivery of health informatics
- oDelivering compassionate and equitable care
- oAwareness of the importance of individuality and self in managing a sustainable career
- oExcellent oral and written communication skills
- oRole model/advocate for developing and delivering responsive care
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- oExtensive demonstrable experience in the field of Maternity
- oLeading or influencing change
- oProven evidence of continuous professional development, demonstrable via portfolio of evidence
- oLeading or facilitating audit and quality improvement projects
- oClinical research, participation, dissemination, and application
- oProven knowledge and demonstrable experience in clinical governance, risk management and quality assurance
- oLeadership experience
- oApplication of national guidance pertinent to role
- oPresentation skills
- oWriting and implementing protocols and policy documents.
- oCounselling skills
Desirable
- oFacilitation/Coaching skills
- oInvolvement in regional/national seminars/conferences.
- oProject management
- oDemonstrable experience of multi-professional education at a range of academic/professional levels
Qualifications
Essential
- oStatutory Registered Healthcare professional
- oMaster's degree (MSc/MA) in relevant/appropriate subject
- oWillingness to work towards Doctoral Degree (PhD) or equivalent
Desirable
- oTeaching qualification
- oDoctorate Degree (PhD) or equivalent
- oLeadership/managerial qualification
- oProfessional Nurse/Midwifery Advocate or equivalent
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential
- oCommunicating with a wide variety of communities
- oTime management within a complex and diverse workload
- oCapable to simultaneously work autonomously and as part of a diverse multi-professional team, valuing the contribution brought by all members
- oAble to use and develop a range of relevant information technology applications and support the delivery of health informatics
- oDelivering compassionate and equitable care
- oAwareness of the importance of individuality and self in managing a sustainable career
- oExcellent oral and written communication skills
- oRole model/advocate for developing and delivering responsive care
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).
