Lead Professional Midwifery Advocate

Job summary

One year- fixed term contract / Secondment

An exciting opportunity to join a driven midwifery workforce to provide support to all midwives while being an integral part of the maternity service.

As a Professional Midwifery Advocate, you will work closely alongside the leadership and practice development teams to provide high level guidance and support.

The model that will support the deployment of this role is "A-EQUIP" which provides:

A continuous improvement process that builds upon personal and professional resilience

Enhances quality of care for women

Supports preparedness for midwives in appraisal and professional revalidation.

The ultimate aim is that the continuous improvement process of the "A-EQUIP" model will become an intrinsic part of every midwife's job, every day (NHS England 2016).

The post holder will assist the Trust by implementing the elements of the A-EQUIP model utilising the guidance issued by NHS England in April 2017.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, visible and motivated individual who will enhance the existing excellence within the team.

Main duties of the job

One year- fixed term contract / Secondment

Meet with midwives in their designated area and / or caseload on either an appointment or ad hoc basis

Use effective communication strategies and influencing skills to achieve desired outcomes and make appropriate referrals for advocacy, mediation or arbitration.

Support midwives to work in partnership with women to develop plans of care which meet their individual needs, to listen to them and to advocate for them as required

To assist in implementing the maternity services Better Births improvement plan, learning from the Ockenden report and the Trust's Five Years Forward strategy

Promote women centred care and autonomous midwifery practice in all clinical areas

Support midwives through restorative clinical supervision to examine their role in the maternity department

Assist midwives to develop their professional and career development choices

Maintain a database of all midwives' revalidation dates for the Trust and ensure that they are prepared to revalidate effectively as per NMC guidance

About us

We work as part of the St George's, Epsom and St Helier Hospital care group, with a shared leadership and increasing collaboration to develop stronger clinical and corporate services between two major providers serving Surrey and South West London.

In autumn 2019, as an entire Trust, we moved up to become rated 'Good' by the CQC and we seek to continually improve. As part of that, we have secured £500m as part of the government's Hospital Infrastructure Plan to enable us to build a brand new Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Sutton and finish the refurbishment of the existing buildings on the Epsom and St Helier hospital sites.

We are committed to making all of our work places great places to work, with the right support and culture to help you excel. We spoke with more than 3,000 colleagues about what makes a good day at work and as a result introduced a new core value - 'Respect'. And as a result 'Respect'is at the heart of everything we do. Thismeans we want everyone who works with us to be able to do the best that they possibly can with opportunitiesavailable for everyone to grow and develop. It also means thatthere is no place for bullying, racism, discrimination or other poor behaviours.