Professional Midwifery Advocate | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 28 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,698 - £65,095 Per annum, including HCLA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 April 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW10 9NH |
| Company: | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6192438/289-SC-2053-A |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone to join and lead our well established Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) Team across both our sites.
The successful candidate will join the senior leadership team, they will support the team to ensure our midwives can meet with and are supported when needed by the PMA team.
They will have good communication skills that ensures all PMAs are kept informed of current issues so that the A-EQUIP model is implemented within the service.
The post holder will:
• Support midwives to identify their own personal action for quality improvement.
• The post holder will 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 Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust.
• Use their expert knowledge in midwifery practice to support Head 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.
See attached Job Description, this list is not exhaustive
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection..
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
See attached Job Description for full details.
• Meet with midwives on either an appointment or ad hoc basis.
• Use effective communication strategies and influencing skills to achieve desired outcomes and make appropriate referrals for advocacy, mediation or arbitration.
• Support midwives to work in partnership with women to develop plans of care which meet their individual needs, to listen to them and to advocate for them as required.
• Attend the bespoke training programme for Professional Midwifery Advocates to undertake Restorative Clinical Supervision (RCS) in order to become competent and confident in undertaking RCS sessions with midwives.
• Demonstrate understanding of the role of the Professional Midwifery Advocate within the context of national governance policies and procedures.
• Work with the maternity management team to assist in the implementation of any clinical guidelines or clinical practices as required to improve the quality and safety of the maternity services.
This advert closes on Thursday 11 Apr 2024