Job summary
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Main duties of the job
The Professional Midwifery Advocate will use the A-EQUIP approach to support all midwives to improve system performance and the experiences of midwives and users through restorative clinical supervision, improve outcomes - through a process that will support personal action for quality improvement and enhance personal and professional development through education: developing leadership capability.
The post holder must be available to deploy the A-EQUIP model as required by the Trust. The post holder will ensure that midwives meet with the PMA a minimum of once per year.(Based on the "Proposed competency framework for the A-Equip Model and the Professional Midwifery Advocate" NHS England Taskforce: Education work stream, September 2016)
The A-EQUIP model is a continuous improvement process that builds: personal and professional resilience, enhances quality of care for women and babies and supports preparedness for appraisal and professional revalidation. The A-EQUIP model aims to ensure that through staff development, action to improve quality of care becomes an intrinsic part of everyone's job, every day, in all parts of the system. The Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) will deploy the A-EQUIP model in a way that meets the needs of the midwife.
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Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Person Specification
Education and Professional Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Undertaken the Professional midwifery advocate course.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Is a qualified sign off mentor.
- Educated to MSc level or equivalent
Exxperience
Essential
- Is willing to Demonstrable well-developed leadership skills.
- 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
Desirable
- Experience of a leadership role.
- Knowledge of clinical governance and its implementation.
Skills and aptitude
Essential
- oPossession of well-developed negotiation, networking and communication skills
- oAppreciate issues of confidentiality and demonstrate appropriateness in dealing with sensitive personal, patient and corporate information
- oAbility to work well as part of a team, and communicate regularly with team members
- oAbility to gather, analyses, interprets and disseminates in-depth information.
- oAbility to work in a complex environment and cope with competing priorities.
- oIT skills
- oExcellent skills in report writing
Personal Qualities & attributes
Essential
- oFlexibility
- oCommitment to women- centered care
- oCommitment to furthering knowledge and responsibility
Person Specification
Education and Professional Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Undertaken the Professional midwifery advocate course.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Is a qualified sign off mentor.
- Educated to MSc level or equivalent
Exxperience
Essential
- Is willing to Demonstrable well-developed leadership skills.
- 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
Desirable
- Experience of a leadership role.
- Knowledge of clinical governance and its implementation.
Skills and aptitude
Essential
- oPossession of well-developed negotiation, networking and communication skills
- oAppreciate issues of confidentiality and demonstrate appropriateness in dealing with sensitive personal, patient and corporate information
- oAbility to work well as part of a team, and communicate regularly with team members
- oAbility to gather, analyses, interprets and disseminates in-depth information.
- oAbility to work in a complex environment and cope with competing priorities.
- oIT skills
- oExcellent skills in report writing
Personal Qualities & attributes
Essential
- oFlexibility
- oCommitment to women- centered care
- oCommitment to furthering knowledge and responsibility
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).
