Consultant Midwife

Job summary

The Consultant Midwife is a role model, leading expertpractice in midwifery, and to ensure all midwifery practice us underpinned by a philosophy of maximising health for women of child bearing age. They will empower midwives to promote health throughout the service.The Consultant Midwife will promote pregnancy and birth as a positiveexperience with subsequent health gains to the woman physically, mentally and sociologically.They will be expected to function as an independent practitioner who will work in collaboration with appropriate medical and allied healthcare practitionersand:-? Provide clinical leadership in order to lead service development andimprovement of maternal health and wellbeing.? Lead the development and implementation of quality initiatives andhealth programmes to reduce health inequalities, Increase normalityand improve? outcomes for mothers and babies and will share this knowledge locally,regionally and nationally.? Provide and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive or highlycontentious information where there are significant barriers toacceptance which need to be overcome using the highest level ofinterpersonal and communication skills, such as would be requiredwhen communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotiveatmosphere.? The Consultant Midwife will maintain and promote links betweenpractice and midwifery education, through an integrated approach, toenhance the experience of students midwives as midwives of thefuture

Main duties of the job

The Consultant Midwife post will be identified by five principal functions:1. Expert advanced practice2. Strategic Service Development3. Leadership and Consultancy4. Education, training and development5. Research and evaluation

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

This post is fixed term for 12 months due to - meet the needs of the service

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.

Our mission is "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together", and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. Our 10-year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future.