Lead Professional Midwifery Advocate

7 months ago


Royal Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Full time

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Midwifery Leader to join our team to provide professional and pastoral guidance and support to the midwifery workforce.

The PMA role has been developed to replace the role of the supervisor of midwives that was deselected in April 2017 due to legislative change. The model that will support the deployment of this role is called “A-EQUIP” which provides a continuous improvement process that builds upon personal and professional resilience, enhances quality of care for women and supports preparedness for midwives in appraisal and professional revalidation.

The ultimate aim is that this continuous improvement process of the “A-EQUIP” model will become an intrinsic part of everyone’s job, every day in all parts of the system. Thus the post holder will assist the Trust by implementing the elements of the A-EQUIP model utilising the guidance issued by NHS England in April 2017.

**Duties will include**:
Support midwives to identify their own personal action for quality improvement

Lead the team of PMAs who have been appointed on a sessional basis, ensuring that they maintain a rota and develop a database to monitor all the activities that each of the PMAs undertake

Use their understanding of personal and professional resilience and support others to develop this attribute

Ensure that there is a strong interface between the PMA and clinical governance at the Trust

Use expert knowledge in midwifery practice to support Heads of Midwifery and Consultant Midwives in implementing and monitoring midwifery practice ensuring that there are robust clinical governance assurance systems in place relating to midwifery practice

Provide support to midwives in sharing of good practice learnt through the maternity service’s internal risk management process with the aim of reducing the incidence of harm and obstetric litigation cases

Be involved in continuous monitoring and maintaining quality standards of clinical practice through a variety of ways, for example audit, working clinically with midwives for those who require additional support and development

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.

**Interview Date**: To be confirmed



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