Consultant Midwife

The role of the consultant midwife for United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust is to lead on the National Maternity Transformation Programme. Be an inspirational role model to lead and transform the maternity services in Lincolnshire, with a particular focus on midwifery led pathways of care.

The role will also work closely with commissioners and women to ensure that maternity services are responsive to the needs of women and their families.

ULHT Maternity services are on an exciting improvement journey and are looking to recruit a dynamic enthusiastic Consultant Midwife to support continued improvements. The Maternity service has recently been rated good by the CQC and has been able to submit full compliance with CNST year 5.

Midwifery is a great place to work in ULHT, we have a great team who are truly committed to giving outstanding care, we have low sickness, turnover and vacancy rates, our team members enjoy being at work.

Our team members contribution to delivering outstanding care is regularly recognised by the awards won at Trust, Regional and National Level and we are backed by a Board that is extremely supportive of our service.

If you are interested in making a real difference and being part of the leadership team of a forward thinking service, we'd love to hear from you

**The consultant midwife key areas of focus will include**:

- Work closely with both provider and commissioning organisations to ensure that maternity services are responsive to the needs of women and their families.
- Work closely with the key stakeholders, including the Local Maternity Strategy team to support the innovation and transformation of maternity services in Lincolnshire, and lead the service re-design as described in the Better Births Lincolnshire plan.
- Provide expert midwifery advice to the Head of Midwifery, Senior Midwifery Team and obstetric colleagues, the Local Maternity Strategy team and partner organisations on professional midwifery issues; actively participating in advancing midwifery practice at a strategic level.
- Promote normality in maternity care, leading midwifery practice within all areas of maternity services.
- Actively facilitate and lead midwifery research and audit
- Develop integrated out of hospital midwifery services with all key stakeholders
- Develop midwifery led birthing units
- Develop a portfolio of Clinical Practice

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated

The role of the Consultant Midwife is firmly centered in and dedicated to the advancement of midwifery practice and to act as a role model and change agent for midwifery practitioners. The Consultant Midwife leads a Birth Choice Clinic for women with alternative or additional needs and acts as an independent expert practitioner leading midwifery care to optimise birth.

Please see job description and person specification for further details.