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Clinical Midwife Specialist in Maternal Medicine | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Manylion swydd
Dyddiad hysbysebu: 30 Mai 2024
Cyflog: Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
Oriau: Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau: 29 Mehefin 2024
Lleoliad: Nottingham, NG7 2UH
Cwmni: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts
Math o swydd: Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd: 6324187/164-6324187

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This is a new post within NUH Maternity working alongside an established team of Maternal Medicine Specialist's who provide Antenatal, Intrapartum and Postnatal Care across two sites. The purpose of the post is ensure women with acute and chronic medical problems have access to specialist advice and care. To manage and provide expert specialist clinical practice alongside the Maternal Medicine colleagues for the pregnant population and their families.

The Clinical Midwife Specialist (CMS) acts as a key advocate for the patient and as a support to staff. The CMS will support the busy maternal medicine service across both the campus Queens Medical Centre and the City Hospital; coordinating Maternal Medicine MDT meetings, developing a midwife-led service for the management of some medical disorders in pregnancy as well as working with the wider MDT, including cardiologists and anaesthetists. This key role will work closely with specialist medical nurses in epilepsy, rheumatology and gastroenterology to develop clear referral pathways to ensure holistic management of these high-risk women.


Act as the clinical expert and professional resource for women complex medical disorders in pregnancy and the multi-professional team. As a first point of contact you will provide professional advice, support, guidance and education to, patients and carers within their specialist service.

Ensure the delivery of the highest quality, clinical effective care, and patient experience, prioritising and utilising research and in collaboration with colleagues in everyday practice.

Provide direction and clinical leadership, working in partnership with the specialist team and multi professional team to enhance standards and best practice of care across the service.

Promote and lead the development and delivery of a programme of practice and professional development for staff within the speciality.

Participate in the delivery of interagency / multi-professional training. The role encompasses liaison with other agencies as well as teaching, support and empowerment of all clinicians involved in maternity care including: obstetricians, midwives, student midwives, and maternity support workers

Contribute to the wider Antenatal services remit to include Manager of the Day responsibilities


With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

PATIENT CARE, CLINICAL EXPERTISE AND CASE MANAGEMENT

Manage a caseload of patients, as appropriate within the speciality, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care.

Provide clinical expertise, specialist advice and support across the whole spectrum of the service, liaising with the East Midlands Maternal Medicine Network as required.

Adopt a range of principles appropriate to client group in order to improve and streamline patient care and patient experience.

Demonstrate in depth specialist knowledge, skills and innovative practice in the specialist area, leading the delivery of appropriate evidence based care, and advanced practice.

Support, assist and encourage the multi-disciplinary team in resolving complex patient problems, by the provision of new and innovative models of case management.

Lead the specialist midwifery contribution to the service, in the delivery of high standards of patient care whilst acting as a role model.

Demonstrate appropriate expert practice and specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This will necessitate high levels of autonomy and advocacy.

PATIENT AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT AND EXPERIENCE

Promote the philosophy of women centred care and establish and maintain a supportive relationship with the woman and her family at all times.

Promote patient and public involvement and enhance their experience by developing new initiatives that support women centred care.

Contribute to the Directorate and Service strategies for raising the profile of patient and public involvement and embedding this within own sphere of practice.

PROMOTE AND ESTABLISH EFFECTIVE TEAM WORKING AND COMMUNICATION

Take overall responsibility for ensuring effective communication between all service providers within the speciality.

Provide and establish good positive working relationships with the Senior Midwifery Team, Head of Nursing and Midwifery, Ward Managers and their teams, Practice Development Lead, relevant Clinicians, Service Managers and General Managers.

Develop and promote working partnerships between the Trust and academic staff at local Universities involved in the provision of nursing, midwifery and multi professional programmes of education.

Actively participate in local, national and international networking to maintain and develop expert level of knowledge in the speciality.

Ensure that the importance and implications of education, research, and ideas are raised in appropriate forums.

EDUCATION, TRAINING AND PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT

Lead the implementation of specialist education and training to all members of the clinical team and midwifery staff within the Directorate in collaboration with the Practice Development Matron. Working with the Directorate Education and Practice Development Lead to ensure that specialist education and training meets the needs of the service, multi-professional clinical teams, patients and carers.

Actively encouraging lifelong learning and personal development through appraisal and Knowledge and Skills framework (KSF) development plans.

Lead the development of a women focused education and information giving strategy within the speciality.

Demonstrate continuous evaluation of practice and make changes where appropriate, within the defined speciality.

Use Education forums and Networks proactively sharing good practice and innovation with others.

Liaise with other groups and assist with the delivery of multi-professional and interprofessional learning.

Provide specialist education teaching, learning and mentoring for pre and post registration students when required and actively contribute to the delivery of the Universities curriculum.

CLINICAL GOVERNANCE, AUDIT AND RESEARCH

Influence and develop policy making and clinical guidelines internally and externally, necessary to support the specialist midwifery service.

Lead and participate in audit and research and benchmarking activities to ensure effective safe and evidence based practice.

Promote and encourage midwifery practice research in all relevant clinical areas supporting the NUH Non-Medical research strategy.



Provide and promote clinical excellence that reflects the Trust’s Clinical Governance Strategies to include meeting the Standards for Better Health.

Promote the speciality by publishing and presenting innovations and research findings locally and nationally.

Actively promote the specialist service through dissemination of in-depth specialist knowledge, both locally and nationally, establishing robust networks.

Identify, and develop proposals and business cases as required for future service innovation.

Act as a role model and clinical resource demonstrating high standards of care and providing clinical leadership in the specialist area.

Liaise with the East Midlands Maternal Medicine to ensure that audit and research findings inform and change practice as appropriate.

RISK MANAGEMENT AND PATIENT SAFETY

Ensure that specialist knowledge, skills and innovative practice is delivered, in order to provide a high standard of patient care and maintain patient safety.

Actively promote infection prevention and control awareness using best practice to reduce the potential for cross infection.

Ensure patient safety through programmes of effective and relevant education and staff compliance with policies and practices.

Facilitate the implementation of new ways of working that benefits patient safety and the patient user experience.

As a clinical expert provide advice and support to assist with the management of complaints relating to their speciality and implement action plans or change of practices.

PROMOTE EFFECTIVE CLINICAL LEADERSHIP

A visible, accessible and assertive clinical expert to which staff and users can turn to for assistance, expert advice and support.

Provide a high level of professional leadership in the development, management and promotion of the service and the team.



Actively contribute to strategic and operational developments relating to the speciality / midwifery service, so that high quality patient focused services are promoted.

Contribute to the Antenatal Services Manager of the Day responsibilities including cover in the absence Antenatal Services managers.

GOVERNANCE

Responsible for ensuring appropriate systems are in place to evidence ongoing compliance with local and national policies as required for CQC standard.

To participate in research / audit which may lead to improvements in quality of care through development of standards and guidelines

Be aware of the individual midwife’s responsibility for effective use of Trust’s resources and good time management.

SPECIALITY SPECIFIC

To be responsible for leading the midwifery care of pregnant women with complex medical conditions.

Collaborate with other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure the provision of an effective and appropriate pathway of care.

To contribute to the planning and implementing of standards of care, Policies, Guidelines and service change, that impact both within and beyond own area of practice. To continually evaluate and audit the quality of patient care.

To provide a visible profile in the clinics, having clinical and advisory input into the care of pregnant women with complex medical conditions in pregnancy.

Be responsible for the smooth running of the clinics, coordinating staffing and ensuring adequate resources

Coordinate care for out of area women within the Speciality and East Midlands Maternal Medicine Network.

Provide leadership to support the delivery of evidenced based woman centred midwifery care for women with medical conditions in pregnancy.

Promote effective teamwork and collaborative relationships within maternal medicine, the multidisciplinary team and across health care settings to optimise their involvement with complex care pathways and improve health outcomes for pregnant women.

Will facilitate and have continuing responsibility for the effective assessment, implementation and evaluation of all midwifery care for women with complex medical conditions, within own sphere of clinical practice both in clinic and delivery suite

Demonstrate comprehensive holistic assessment of patients utilising a variety of advanced clinical skills, while acting as a role model, in line with the Midwife Specialist role for the service.

Promote and initiate innovations and change related to improvement of clinical services in relation to the speciality

WORKING CONDITIONS

Ability to work across all sites including the community setting. Physical effort to enable post holder to deliver clinical maternity care. On-call responsibilities as required.


This advert closes on Monday 10 Jun 2024