University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB) has one of the largest maternity services in the UK, providing maternity care across Derbyshire and into Staffordshire.

We want to provide woman-centred, family friendly care and offer a range of models of midwifery and obstetric care provision. This includes midwife-led care, continuity of carer models, and specialist care provided by our obstetric teams for women with more complex needs, as well as community midwifery services.

As a specialist midwife you will take overall responsibility and accountability in ensuring women, babies and families receive safe, clinically effective, women centred care across the whole maternity care pathway. You will work flexibly across our sites at Royal Derby hospital and Queen's hospital, Burton. You will lead by example, offer expert midwifery clinical advice, operationally support and manage teams and services ensuring the delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate midwifery care. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver care to women and babies within acute or community clinical environments whose needs are complex.

This is a full-time position to provide the managerial support and leadership to the service, however there is flexibility in working hours to support your development and your own wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic lead midwife for Perinatal Mental Heath. We are looking for an individual who has experience of managing and leading a team, is committed to continuous development and improvement.

You will work closely with the whole multidisciplinary team including the obstetric consultants, public health matron and the senior midwifery team across both sites and support staff in the deliverance of exceptional care together. You will also work in collaboration with the specialist perinatal mental health services across Staffordshire and Derbyshire.

You will work flexibly across the service in supporting the delivery of midwifery care, using a range of service models, including continuity of carer. Senior midwives provide expert clinical and professional midwifery leadership and are accountable for the women, babies, public and staff experience. This will be in line with local, Trust wide and national policies, procedures, values and behaviours.

If you feel you have the attributes to fulfil this role and are able to rise to the challenges of today's changing maternity climate please call and discuss what could be a fabulous and exciting next step for you. We are going though an exciting period of investment and development at UHDB and would welcome the opportunity to share with you how we envisage this role will develop.

Closing date of applications: 8th August 2024

Interview date: 21st August 2024

About us

At UHDB around 9,000 babies are born across our two sites each year at Royal Derby Hospital (RDH) and Queens Hospital Burton (QHB). We provide antenatal and postnatal care for 11,500 women each year and, at RDH, we offer an alongside birth centre. We support women through low and high-risk care pathways, and some specialty pathways like diabetes and cardiology.

We have staff who are kind, caring and compassionate, and who want to deliver exceptional care together for every person who needs us - and that remains our aspiration.

This is an exciting new era on our maternity improvement journey, following a �5.4million investment into our services to strengthen our workforce, our technology and our processes, so that we can further improve what we do and deliver the best quality care to women and their babies. This is a great opportunity to join UHDB and make a real impact for the women and families we care for.

As a University Trustwe value learning, teaching, and training so that we help you to be the best that you can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, and we always want to treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves.

An extensive induction package is offered to successful candidates joining our Maternity services to ensure you are well supported and have time to adjust to working within our teams.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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We have:

An inclusive and supportive culture - our Trust encourages staff to bring their whole selves to work and active Staff Networks to identify areas for improvement.

Employee Support and wellbeing - we have a comprehensive Employee Health & Wellbeing Programme which includes a counselling service and a range of activities.

Staff benefits - We have a range of staff benefits and schemes to support staff health, engagement, wellbeing and inclusion.

Details of UHDB sites

We have three wards across two sites, with a total of 88 beds for antenatal, postnatal and induction of labour.

At Royal Derby Hospital there are:

17 delivery rooms including one pool room and bereavement suite.Four bedded Midwife led birth centre.

Four bedded Obstetric Enhanced Care area and a two bedded assessment bay.

Queens Hospital Burton has seven delivery rooms including one pool room and one bereavement suite.

Samuel Johnson Community Hospital currently does not provide intrapartum care but runs as a community midwifery hub.

Where we are now:

We are focused on making progress as well as implementing valuable learning from recent external reviews and reports into the service.

We want to:

Be fully compliant against all national safety measures.Embed recommended changes from recent reviews of our service.Make sure we communicate well with families, so that every woman feels properly listened to and that we act on their feedback.Create the best possible environment at work for our teams to do their job.Do the things we have said we will do, including how we make sure we have learned and made changes when something has not gone well.

A lot of work is underway already, and we welcome applications from those who want to be a part of that journey.

If you would like to look around our Maternity Unit and find out more about our Midwifery posts, please contact us.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• First level degree or equivalent
• NMC Registered

Experience

Essential

• Experience work as perinatal mental health midwife
• Teaching experience
• Clinical and managerial credibility
• Leadership and management skills

Desirable

• Experience of implementing service changes
• Experience of working with external service providers

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

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