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Public Health Consultant Midwife | 393 Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	12 February 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£67,950 - £91,336 per annum inclusive (salary is dependant on experience)
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	14 March 2025
Location:	London, N18 1QX
Company:	North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	6988265/393-NMUH-2120

Summary

The Consultant Midwife will use midwifery expertise to promote clinical pathways in maternity care leading midwifery practice within all areas of maternity services.



The role will be to lead and support midwives to realise their full potential as autonomous practitioners placing women and their families at the centre of care planning.

The post holderwillact asan innovator, motivator, keychange agent and role model, witha high level of autonomy in order to support and influence the clinical pathways within the midwifery services including implementation of national initiatives, service reconfiguration and appropriate models of care.



Thepostholderwillworkcloselywiththe HeadsofMidwifery,GroupDirectorof Midwifery, Consultant Midwives, Midwifery Matrons, Obstetric, Anaesthetic and Neonatal Teams to develop a Maternity Service that is responsive to the needs of women and its staff.



Thepostholderwill contributetotheeducationalcommitmentinensuringmidwiferyclinical pathways and practices are enveloped in all staff training programmes.



Thiswillbeachievedby:

1. Leading service redesign empowering midwives to meet the needs of the local population in line with key objectives outlined the Better Birth Strategy and local and national policy documents.

2. Thedevelopmentof midwiferypracticewithinallareasofthematernityservice.

3. Actively promoting and developing clinical pathways for high risk and low risk care that promote normal birth for mothers.

4. Providing expert clinical advice to all medical and midwifery staff to ensure best practice standards are met that will improve outcomes for women and influence a reduction in unnecessary interventions and LSCS Births.

5. Making a significant contribution to the clinical governance agenda and collation of evidence for the maternity incentive scheme (CNST) by ensuring that practice is evidence based and through the development of staff competence at all levels.

6. Contribute to the researchand audit agenda ensuring a multidisciplinary approach at alltimes

7. TorepresentthedirectorateatexternalnetworksandreportprogresstotheDirectorate

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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1. CLINICALRESPONSIBILITIES

· Function as an expert practitioner leading midwife care and working in collaboration with the appropriate multi-disciplinary groups to meet the specific needs of pregnantwomen.

· Workforupto50%of the time in clinicalpractice.This may be on a shift basis to work with different staff groups and will wholly depend on work priorities agreed with the Group Director of Midwifery/Divisional Nurse Director.

· To lead on-going maternity transformation with new ways of working including quality improvement projects within maternity services.

· LeadtheBetterBirthStrategy

· Projectmanagesservicedevelopmentasdelegated.

· Provideexpertadvicetostaffandhandsonpracticalcareinallpracticesettings

· Demonstrateadvancedclinicalskillsandknowledgethatinformspracticedecisions.

· Support staff in developing their competence to enable them to keep the birth process as normal as possible.

· Bepreparedtomakedecisionsaboutpracticewhereprecedentsdonotexist,and where appropriate, without recourse to others based on sound clinical evidence.

· Adviseandsupportcolleagueswherestandardprotocolsdonotapplydemonstrating innovative and visionary practice

· Developandmaintainevidence-basedguidelinesforholisticpregnancypractice.

· Leadthedevelopmentofstafftobecomeconfidentindecisionmakingthrough empowerment and support.

· Encouragemidwivestochallengetraditionalmodelsof careandto facilitatechangesinpractice



· Leadinthe implementationof strategiestoreduce clinicalinterventions,particularlythe caesarean section rate



2. RESPONSIBILITYFORWOMENANDTHEIRFAMILIES



· Actsasa namedleadformidwiferyledcarewithintheTrust

· Promotewomancentredcareandautonomousmidwiferypracticeinallforums

· Appropriatelycommunicatessensitiveinformationtowomen,familiesandmidwives

· Facilitatecontentiousdiscussionswherethereisdisagreementaboutbestpractice placing the woman at the centre of care

· Actsasanadvocateforwomenandmidwives

· Supporttheriskmanagementstrategywithintheservice

· Becompetentandabletosupportothersininvestigatingincidents,providing reports and implementing action plans.




· Provideavisibleaccessibleandauthoritativepresencewithintheclinicalareasin whom women and theirfamilies can have confidence and to whomthey can turn for assistance, advice and support

· Ensure the delivery of care (including basic procedures), Identify and advise the directorate in order to meet the requirement of NICE guidelines, the National ServiceFramework,Essenceof Careandevidencebasedpracticeandanyother relevant national Maternity guidance




3. RESPONSIBILITYFORPOLICYANDSERVICEDEVELOPMENT
· AsaTrustrepresentativetopromotetheroleofConsultantMidwifeandservice initiatives where appropriate

· Participateinserviceredesignwithparticularemphasisondevelopingconfident and competent midwifery practitioners capable of keeping birth normal

· Demonstrateathoroughunderstandingoflocalandnationalobjectivesand contribute to the strategic planning of maternity services

· BeinstrumentalindevelopingmidwiferypracticewithintheTrustinlinewith nationally acclaimed innovation and research

· Tointerpretandevaluateinformationfromallsources,makinginformed judgements to make recommendations on improving practice

· Lead in thedevelopmentof clinicalpathwaysforbothhighand lowriskwomen to put in place service developments that promote normal birth

· Tobeproactiveinimplementingandfacilitatingnewwaysof workingtosupport these service developments




4. RESPONSIBLILTYFOREDUCATIONANDTRAINING

· Support and work in partnership with the Consultant Midwives, the Practice Development Midwives and ClinicalPractice Facilitator’s to delivertheobjectivesof educational roles

· Createasupportivelearningenvironmentforallstudentsandstaffgroups

· Beanexpertrolemodelworkingalongsidequalifiedmidwives,midwiferyand medical students

· Preparelecturesandteachtheprinciplesofautonomouspracticeandother midwifery topics to all staff groups

· Participate in the planningof a schedule ofeducation and training that is gearedtowards relevant aspects of service development.

· Work in close liaison with the clinical co-ordinators to review and develop practicestandards

· Workwith the Consultant Midwives, clinicalleadsto establish the learning needsof staff groups in line with the maternity Training Needs Analysis Guideline (TNA)

· Haveinputintodevelopmentanddeliveryofinter-professionallearning

· RepresentTrustandMaternityservicesatNCLLMNSBetterBirthsubgroups supporting good working relationships



5. RESPONSIBILITYFORLEADINGANDMANAGING

· Lead colleagues in the improvement of standards of quality and to develop clinicalpractice.

· Communicateeffectivelywithallstakeholdersinvolvedinthecareofpregnantwomen

· Giveadviceonbestpracticearisingfromcurrentandrelevantresearchandfacilitate the change process for new initiatives

· Provideexpertinputacrossdisciplinestosecureimprovementsinqualitythus improving the clients’ experience




· ProvidewrittenreportsandpresentationsasrequiredforDivisional,TrustExecutive and external forums

· BeanactivememberoftheMaternityVoicesPartnershipandanyothergroup where the postholder’s input contributesto maternity service quality improvements

· BeamemberoftheNorthCentralLondon andNationalConsultantMidwifeNetwork

· Work with the clinical leads for obstetrics, anaesthetics and neonatology to ensure harmonious working relationships between staff groups




6. RESPONSIBILITYFORINFORMATIONRESOURCES
· Work closely with the systems supervisorto ensure a robust data entry systemthat supports the audit process

· Utiliseandanalysequantitativeandqualitativedataandinformationproducedby the trustto produce reports and performance indicator data as required




7. RESPONSIBILITYFORRESEARCHANDDEVELOPMENT

· LeadsstrategicpracticeandservicedevelopmentinMidwifeledcare.

· Contribute to the evaluation of services or aspects of service against national and local benchmarks

· Beresponsibleforthepromotionofevidence-basedpracticeinallsettings

· Inconjunctionwiththeriskmanager,leadinthe collationofevidencefortheannual maternity incentive scheme (CNST)

· Maintainathoroughknowledgeofkeydriversforchangeandadvisethe management team about practice issues

· Developaresearchstrategythatencouragesmidwivestoactivelyparticipatein quality improvement

· Undertakerelevantresearchand audittopicsthatimprovehealthoutcomesand identify future service developments

· Implementchangesinpracticewhererequired

· Reviewclinicaldata,analysetrendsandreportonanyclinicalimplicationsidentified

· Within the clinical governance undertake specific projects as agreed by the Group Director of Midwifery.


This advert closes on Friday 28 Feb 2025