Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Registered Midwife with safeguarding experience related to children and adults to work within the maternity safeguarding team at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will support all activities to ensure the organisation meets its safeguarding responsibilities in regard to pregnant women/birthing people, new mothers and unborn and new-born babies within the care of the acute and community services.
The post holder will support the Named Midwife for Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Families to ensure the organisation meets its safeguarding responsibilities throughout the childbirth continuum. They will ensure the pregnant persons and their families with safeguarding issues receive appropriate care, support, and guidance to ensure the best outcomes for their unborn/new-born babies.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will support the Named Midwife for Safeguarding Children and vulnerable families to ensure the organisation meets its safeguarding responsibilities throughout the childbirth continuum and that pregnant persons and their families with safeguarding concerns receive appropriate care, support, and guidance to ensure the best outcomes for their unborn/new-born babies.
The post holder will work across acute and community maternity services and within a multi-agency arena, providing advice and support to trust staff on safeguarding concerns..
Under the direction of the Named Midwife for Safeguarding Children and vulnerable families, the post holder will participate in safeguarding supervision and the training of staff on safeguarding issues concerns using a 'Think Family' approach inclusive of safeguarding children, adults and unborn babies.
The post holder will have a remit to help coordinate maternity care for pregnant people with safeguarding concerns, ensuring staff respond in a professional, kind, caring and sensitive manner.
The post holder will support the development of current safeguarding systems within maternity services to ensure adequate communication of safeguarding concerns to all levels of staff, escalating where necessary to ensure optimum care.
About us
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:
Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
NHS pension scheme membership
Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
NHS Staff discounts
Cycle to work scheme
Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice 3033
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide advice and support to acute and community maternity services across the Stockport and the High Peak area.
To provide a full range of health education and social care advice to vulnerable women and their families who are accessing maternity services.
To assess the full range of care and support needs - develops, implements and evaluatesprogrammes of care in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period for women with complex safeguarding needs and/or identified vulnerabilities.
Provide safeguarding supervision to midwives and maternity support staff, under direction from the named midwife for safeguarding children and vulnerable families.
To develop and assist in the delivery of safeguarding training to maternity services as part of the safeguarding training strategy and Royal College Intercollegiate Documents.
Liaise effectively with partner agencies working with vulnerable pregnant women and their families as outlined in Working Together (2023).
In the absence of the womans named midwife, attend relevant case conferences, professional meetings, strategy discussions and core group meetings and update the maternity IT system with relevant plans for the women and their unborn/new-born baby.
Provide appropriate feedback and supportive challenge to practitioners where necessary, taking a trauma based approach.
Support the named midwife for safeguarding children and vulnerable families in investigations and responses to any complaint or investigations that may have a safeguarding element.
Work autonomously within guidelines and sphere of professional practice.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trusts policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide advice and support to acute and community maternity services across the Stockport and the High Peak area.
To provide a full range of health education and social care advice to vulnerable women and their families who are accessing maternity services.
To assess the full range of care and support needs - develops, implements and evaluatesprogrammes of care in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period for women with complex safeguarding needs and/or identified vulnerabilities.
Provide safeguarding supervision to midwives and maternity support staff, under direction from the named midwife for safeguarding children and vulnerable families.
To develop and assist in the delivery of safeguarding training to maternity services as part of the safeguarding training strategy and Royal College Intercollegiate Documents.
Liaise effectively with partner agencies working with vulnerable pregnant women and their families as outlined in Working Together (2023).
In the absence of the womans named midwife, attend relevant case conferences, professional meetings, strategy discussions and core group meetings and update the maternity IT system with relevant plans for the women and their unborn/new-born baby.
Provide appropriate feedback and supportive challenge to practitioners where necessary, taking a trauma based approach.
Support the named midwife for safeguarding children and vulnerable families in investigations and responses to any complaint or investigations that may have a safeguarding element.
Work autonomously within guidelines and sphere of professional practice.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trusts policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife with wide post-graduate experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of safeguarding children and young people.
- Knowledge of child health, development and maltreatment
- Knowledge and experience of adult safeguarding
- Knowledge of national safeguarding policies
- Understanding of MCA in practice
- Understanding of the modern NHS including current key policies and priorities and their application
Experience
Essential
- Recent clinical experience of working with vulnerable Families
- Experience of participating in clinical and safeguarding supervision
Desirable
- Experience of participating and undertaking audits
- Experience in dealing with contentious and emotive information and advising on management of sensitive cases
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Good critical thinking skills
- Ability to work independently but also as a team player, able to contribute to the wider mission of the organisation
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence and negotiate at local level
- Ability to work with senior managers to implement recommendations from Serious Case Reviews
- Be emotionally resilient but able to recognise self-care, support for colleagues and access managerial support as needed.
Work related circumstances
Essential
- Due to the nature of the role, it is essential that applicants are able to travel independently across Stockport and the high peak and regionally when required and have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes. Where possible, adjustments can be considered in accordance with the Equality Act
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife with wide post-graduate experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of safeguarding children and young people.
- Knowledge of child health, development and maltreatment
- Knowledge and experience of adult safeguarding
- Knowledge of national safeguarding policies
- Understanding of MCA in practice
- Understanding of the modern NHS including current key policies and priorities and their application
Experience
Essential
- Recent clinical experience of working with vulnerable Families
- Experience of participating in clinical and safeguarding supervision
Desirable
- Experience of participating and undertaking audits
- Experience in dealing with contentious and emotive information and advising on management of sensitive cases
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Good critical thinking skills
- Ability to work independently but also as a team player, able to contribute to the wider mission of the organisation
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence and negotiate at local level
- Ability to work with senior managers to implement recommendations from Serious Case Reviews
- Be emotionally resilient but able to recognise self-care, support for colleagues and access managerial support as needed.
Work related circumstances
Essential
- Due to the nature of the role, it is essential that applicants are able to travel independently across Stockport and the high peak and regionally when required and have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes. Where possible, adjustments can be considered in accordance with the Equality Act
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).
