Band 8b Consultant Midwife

3 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the maternity team at university Hospitals Birmingham. This is a multisite service, providing care for some of the most vulnerable women and families across Birmingham and Solihull. The post holder will have a focus on intrapartum complex care. you will work along side the consultant midwife for midwifery led care and public health. Together you will provide strategic support for the Director of Midwifery and the Heads of Midwifery.

The key purpose of this post is to ensure a high level of intellectual and practice expertise is available within the senior maternity team.

The consultant midwives will along with the senior midwifery team, drive forward and evaluate changes in midwifery practice to improve the quality of care for women and their families in line with this key policy document along with other national and local policy documents.

The post holder will also contribute to the Trust's Clinical Governance agenda and the National Maternity Transformation requirements, particularly through the provision of advice on best practice and the support and development of staff.

The post holder will also promote midwifery audit and research.

UHB is a tertiary centre providing care for women with complex needs, it supports a level 3 neonatal unit at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital which is a neonatal cooling centre as well as a level 1 unit neonatal unit at Good Hope Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The midwife consultant post will be characterised by the four principal role functions:

* an expert practice function

* a professional leadership and consultancy function

* an education, training and development function

* a practice and service development, research and evaluation function

The consultant midwife will spend 50% of time clinically facing.

The balance of these functions may vary from time to time in consultation with the Director of Midwifery and the Heads of Midwives.

Professional Leadership and Consultancy Function

* The post holder is expected to provide visionary, inspirational leadership and inspire colleague, to improve standards and quality to develop professional practice

* Support midwives to realize their full potential as autonomous practitioners valuing normality, whilst being able to recognize and act on the abnormal appropriately.

* Will act as a role model for midwives, students and junior medical staff, being accessible and available for advice, debriefing and supervision.

* Lead midwives to build their confidence in evidence-based practice in order to empower them to challenge the traditional model and so change practice and inspire midwives and doctors to enhance the profile and practice of midwifery.

* The post holder will act as an expert advisor internally and externally, including being an ambassador for the Trust's maternity service and promoting the Trust as a Centre of Excellence internally, regionally and nationally.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

* Registered Midwife * Master's Qualification * Mentorship Qualification * A track record of research * Evidence of ongoing and sustained CPD

Desirable

* PHD (Willingness to work towards a PHD) * Management or leadership course

Experience

Essential

* Evidence of a substantial clinical experience and ability to function at level required of the post * Previous experience in a broad range of clinical midwifery experience and continued clinical practice and experience (5 years minimum) in a senior midwifery * Experience of working in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team * Demonstrate experience of managing change within a clinical environment * Evidence of innovative practice that involves research and or audit * Evidence of research * Project management skills * Evidence of participation in regional and national networks * Awareness of National NHS agenda and the National Maternity Transformation requirements * Knowledge of current developments in midwifery and political awareness of NHS * Ability to both influence and work across professional boundaries * Experience of developing staff * Experience of leading on a change project * Evidence of teaching * Understanding of the local priorities within the local health community * Knowledge of standard setting and audit process. * Knowledge of quality standard setting and audit

Additional Criteria

Essential

* Demonstrable commitment to and expertise in midwifery * Well-developed verbal and written communication skills including presentations and publications * Excellent leadership skills * Influencing skills * Highly developed interpersonal skills with meticulous attention to detail * Experience of presenting at conferences * Experience of developing policies and procedures * Able to command respect of multi-disciplinary team * Budget management skills * Research skills * Advanced computer literate * Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines * Demonstrates awareness of priorities, deals with workloads, adapts to changing requirements and uses initiative * Able to work sensible and collaboratively across organizational and professional boundaries, recognizing changes in circumstances and to incorporate them into practice * Awareness of equality and diversity issues * Negotiating and ability to resolve conflict * Team building skills * Project management skills 9E * Ability to compile, analyse and disseminate complex information * Innovative * Strategic thinking * Personal recognition within the midwifery professional with an existing network of professional contacts * Flexible to meet service needs * Demonstrate recent achievements at work * Able to act as an effective role model * Maintain confidentiality and is accountable for actions/decision * Problem solver * Calm under pressure * Reliable * Respected and experienced professional with a reputation for setting and delivering to high professional standards * Able to identify opportunities to develop needs and to change existing practice

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