Midwifery Independent Senior Equity Advocate | North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Peterborough, PE39GZ |
| Company: | North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6037785/176-Mat-6037785 |
Summary
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.
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and candidates form our local communities.
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 regions.
Governance and Reporting
• Regularly report to LMNS, Trust Level Boards and the Maternity Equity Hub governance structures, providing robust feedback on both individual events and trends, providing recommendations to improve service user experience and patient safety, reflecting both on staff approach and engagement with the importance of cultural safety in all that they do.
• Ensure that there are strong links with two-way feedback, between the ISEA findings and clinical governance and practice within Maternity. Establish regular reporting to the Quality and Safety Groups and other appropriate forums, including the Women’s Experience Committee and the Maternity Equity Hub governance structures.
• Prepare and present information and reports to LMNS, Trust level boards and the Maternity Equity Hub governance structures, including producing a final report at the end of the 12-month period, reflecting on the impact of activities undertaken across the LMNS to promote greater equity in care.
Navigation
• To act as a trusted intermediary between women and families and clinicians and the Maternity & Neonatal Trust, aiming to break down barriers to being listened to, heard and seen.
• Help women and families navigate complexity, signposting to appropriate sources of advice and support both within and external to the NHS, including the Universal Language Maternity Equity Hub. This will include an early and specialist response to the needs of Refugee and Asylum-seeking women and families.
• To work towards resolving concerns and brokering improvements early on in the pathway, set out for example in Personalised Care & Support Plans, so that care better meets a woman’s needs and there is less likelihood of ongoing poor experience in both care and physical and emotional health outcomes.
• To work closely with the Maternity Equity Hub and NWAFT colleagues to ensure that women and families are aware of their rights and options and explain the options open to them, providing expert advisory support as required.
Please review JD and PS attached for further information
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024