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Maternal Medicine Midwife - Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job details
Posting date: 20 May 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £58,698 - £65,095 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata)
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 19 June 2024
Location: London, SW17 0QT
Company: st georges nhs trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 6188519/200-6188519-MA-AA-Y

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Summary

A Vacancy at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


An exciting opportunity has arisen to introduce two advanced clinical practice midwifery posts in maternal medicine into Southwest London Maternal Medicine Network, working as a fixed term 1 year contract.

The post forms part of our maternal medicine midwifery workforce strategy, which is in response to the national agenda that requires the development of midwifery clinical expertise within maternal medicine services in England.

These successful post holder will have their working week equally divided between two SWL NHS hospital sites, with 80% of these ACP midwifery post holder role’s time being clinical. Their roles will have a twofold focus. The post holder will be expected to work in collaboration with the local maternal medicine consultants, developing and running specialist midwifery led clinics for women with complex pregnancy.

Secondly, the post holder will be expected to use their clinical expertise to act as role models and mentors, to facilitate the development of the knowledge and clinical expertise of the local maternal medicine midwifery teams. These roles will have an immediate effect on the provision of maternity care for women with complex pregnancies and the development of future midwifery expertise locally.

The successful candidate will be expected to have fulfilled the requirements of the JD specification.

Secondment applications welcome.

The Advanced Clinical Practitioners will have a coordinating Education Supervisor and may have a number of Associate Workplace Supervisors, who support specified aspects of the practitioner’s specialty or area-specific knowledge and skills development, in relation to the four pillars of advanced clinical practice (clinical expertise, leadership and management, education and research).

For further guidance, see Workplace Supervision for Advanced Clinical Practice: An integrated multi-professional approach for practitioner development. Health Education England (HEE) 2022.

Please note: Proposed interview date on 14th June 2024

This post is hosted by St Georges Hospital, but managed by SWL ICB

Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflect these.

Essential:Qualifications and training
• NMC Registered Midwife.
• MSc level in Advanced Clinical Practice or shortly to complete.
• Independent or supplementary non-medical prescriber course or commitment to undertake module.

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.


This advert closes on Monday 3 Jun 2024

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