Midwifery Independent Senior Equity Advocate

3 months ago


Peterborough, United Kingdom North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This role will recognise, respect, and address the needs of service users who may face barriers when seeking access to services, including those from Black, Asian, and Mixed ethnicity backgrounds and those with protected characteristics.

The role requires close working with the maternity equity hub and NWAFT colleagues to ensure that women and their families are prioritised and made aware of how the perinatal offer should function.

This role will require persistence, diplomacy, and vision from the Midwife undertaking it.

We are looking for an experienced registered Midwife, to undertake this influential role and work collaboratively with our System partners to:
provide support and advocate for women, and their families when navigating the healthcare system.

address any concerns raised or detected about the care they are or should be receiving.

share examples for learning when effective personalised care has reduced risk, improved outcomes, and increased satisfaction.

be prepared to challenge other professionals and system members around systemic racism and where anti racist practice is not being demonstrated.

ensure that actions are evidenced and translated into improvements for women, babies, and their families.

You are passionate about supporting our communities and possess:
exceptional communication skills

extensive knowledge in advocacy

the capability to manage a diverse and changing caseload.

happy to be visible and are a credible role model for all levels of staff.

We are committed to ensure a work-life balance to all our staff by offering full time and part time roles, flexible working hours on a shift pattern to fit around your family life.

Benefits to you
- 27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 29 days after five years of service and 33 days after 10 years of service, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part time staff);
- NHS Pension Scheme:

- Flexible working opportunities;
- Increased hourly rates for unsociable hours e.g. night shifts, weekends, bank holidays;
- Career development and training;
- Wellbeing support and activities;
- In-house physiotherapy Service;
- On-site canteens with subsidised meals;
- Subsidised staff parking (currently free).
- Free Stagecoach Bus Travel to and from work within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Ensuring the service user remains front and foremost in all aspects of work in this role. This includes managing referrals for women and families, review of case notes and care pathway mapping to support implementation of rights and choice based personalised care plans, accommodating different circumstances for women and birthing people.

Referrals / Key Job Specifics & Responsibilities

Provide leadership in e

Respond to referrals and be available to women and families, to join follow-up meetings with clinicians.

Build and understanding of the concerns expressed by women and families and reflect that understanding back to women and families to help them feel listened to and seen.

Manage a number of complex cases simultaneously and taking decisions independently on substantial casework. To establish systems to record details of each case referred for support.

To work collaboratively with the NWAFT Midwifery leadership team and the Universal Language (a collaborative between Barnardo’s, CPSL Mind and the Raham Project) Maternity Equity Hub to maximise relevant and appropriate support to women and families.

Communication responsibilities

Communicates and presents highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. Where necessary, be prepared to have robust and challenging conversations with clinicians, advocating on women and families’ behalf, challenging discrimination, and championing an anti-racist approach.

Contribute to providing information about the ISEA role amongst local organisations, to ensure that women and families who need to access their service know their options.

Develop effective communication with relevant local organisations, including Black-led organisations and community groups, to ensure their role is well understood, and to ensure that women and families from groups who are least likely to express concerns about their care feel more able to do so.

Equality and Diversity

Recognise, respect, and address the needs of service users who face particular barriers when seeking access to services, including those from Black, Asian, and Mixed ethnicity backgrounds and those with protected characteristics.

Be prepared to challenge other professionals and system members around systemic racism and where anti racist practice is not being demonstrated.

Data and Information

Contribute to the evaluation of the ISEA role maintaining and making available information about referrals from women and families, outcomes of case and monitoring data.

Gather information on trends in cases, to share learning across all levels of the Trust, to external strategic partners and through NHS England region



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