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Specialist Midwife - Professional Midwifery Advocate

Job details
Posting date: 09 September 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 26 October 2024
Location: Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL
Company: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6586619/214-WC-6586619

Summary

A Vacancy at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, dynamic, and passionate midwife to join our perinatal team as a Professional Midwifery Advocate within the Women’s and Children’s services at Sherwood Forest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking for a midwife with a broad range of experience within maternity services, who are innovative, proactive and compassionate. The postholder will be passionate about empowering and supporting nurses and midwives as well as empowering and supporting facilitating choice for women and birthing people.

We are seeking a midwife with excellent interpersonal skills, good communication, be flexible and adaptable to meet the needs of families and staff. The purpose and focus of this specialist role is to lead on pastoral support for staff working in maternity and neonates and developing the existing Professional Midwifery Advocacy service at Sherwood Forest Hospitals, continuing to embed the A-Equip model into practice. The role will also involve supporting and advocating for women, when needed to support the Professional Midwifery Advocacy.

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification document.

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.

Our culture of learning, compassion and taking a person-centred approach are at the roots of our organisation. We would love you to join us.

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification document.


This advert closes on Wednesday 9 Oct 2024

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