Midwifery ACP for DAU & Triage
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Location
- London
- Salary
- £53,755 to £60,504 per annum plus HCAS
- Closing date
- 22 Oct 2024
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If you're looking to work in an award winning, well-supported, friendly, dynamic, culturally astute and inclusive environment that puts women / birthing people at the centre of a high standard of care, come and join us. Our latest CQC report that has just been published rates us as good, maintaining our good rating since 2017 and has now awarded us outstanding for leadership.
Have you got extensive post registration experience? Do you feel ready for a new challenge? This is an exciting opportunity for a Midwife to develop personally and professionally. The successfully candidate will provide clinical leadership to midwifery staffing in the Maternity Triage and Day Assessment unit setting.
You will fulfil this varied role within the unit using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience.
If you are an experienced midwife who is capable of planning and managing complete episodes of care, in line with the evidence based practice, then this could be a great opportunity for you.
This is a full time role that may require some weekend and out of hours working and will be based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich site.
We are very proud of the Maternity Services that we provide across our sites and are looking for an influential midwife to Lead, support and encourage our staff in DAU & Triage
Main duties of the job
Your main duties will involve but not be limited to:
o Responsibility for the rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of women/birthing people within the Maternity Triage and Day Assessment unit using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
o Planning and managing complete episodes of care, working in collaboration with the midwives, junior doctors, and consultants, delegating and referring as appropriate, to ensure timely, effective management and optimise health outcomes, in line with the evidence base and nationally recognised best practice.
o Playing a key operational role and maintain a pro-active approach to managing and leading clinical pathways and flow.
o Working closely with a multi-professional team.
o Promoting and implementing service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust.
Please see JD for Full details.
This post is not suitable for newly qualified midwives or international midwives who have just completed their OSCE.
About us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development Widening access (anchor institution) and employability Improving the experience of staff with disability Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development Making equalities mainstream
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be responsible for the rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of women/birthing people within the Maternity Triage and Day Assessment unit using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
To provide clinical leadership to midwifery staffing in the Maternity Triage and Day Assessment unit setting.
To plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in collaboration with the midwives, junior doctors, and consultants, delegating and referring as appropriate, to ensure timely, effective management and optimise health outcomes, in line with the evidence base and nationally recognised best practice.
To play a key operational role and maintain a pro-active approach to managing and leading clinical pathways and flow.
Working closely with a multi-professional team.
To promote and implement service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust.
To act as a resource to others and to develop, deliver and evaluate a range of relevant specialist programmes of education and development for women/birthing people and large groups, including the wider multidisciplinary team, both internally and external to the trust.
Key Result Areas & Performance
Assume responsibility for the rapid assessment, diagnostics and treatment of women/birthing people within the maternity triage and Day Assessment unit in line with defined ACP competencies
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
Desirable
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
Desirable
Employer details
Employer name
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Address
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
London
SE18 4QH
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
197-RF5889
Have you got extensive post registration experience? Do you feel ready for a new challenge? This is an exciting opportunity for a Midwife to develop personally and professionally. The successfully candidate will provide clinical leadership to midwifery staffing in the Maternity Triage and Day Assessment unit setting.
You will fulfil this varied role within the unit using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience.
If you are an experienced midwife who is capable of planning and managing complete episodes of care, in line with the evidence based practice, then this could be a great opportunity for you.
This is a full time role that may require some weekend and out of hours working and will be based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich site.
We are very proud of the Maternity Services that we provide across our sites and are looking for an influential midwife to Lead, support and encourage our staff in DAU & Triage
Main duties of the job
Your main duties will involve but not be limited to:
o Responsibility for the rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of women/birthing people within the Maternity Triage and Day Assessment unit using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
o Planning and managing complete episodes of care, working in collaboration with the midwives, junior doctors, and consultants, delegating and referring as appropriate, to ensure timely, effective management and optimise health outcomes, in line with the evidence base and nationally recognised best practice.
o Playing a key operational role and maintain a pro-active approach to managing and leading clinical pathways and flow.
o Working closely with a multi-professional team.
o Promoting and implementing service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust.
Please see JD for Full details.
This post is not suitable for newly qualified midwives or international midwives who have just completed their OSCE.
About us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be responsible for the rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of women/birthing people within the Maternity Triage and Day Assessment unit using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
To provide clinical leadership to midwifery staffing in the Maternity Triage and Day Assessment unit setting.
To plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in collaboration with the midwives, junior doctors, and consultants, delegating and referring as appropriate, to ensure timely, effective management and optimise health outcomes, in line with the evidence base and nationally recognised best practice.
To play a key operational role and maintain a pro-active approach to managing and leading clinical pathways and flow.
Working closely with a multi-professional team.
To promote and implement service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust.
To act as a resource to others and to develop, deliver and evaluate a range of relevant specialist programmes of education and development for women/birthing people and large groups, including the wider multidisciplinary team, both internally and external to the trust.
Key Result Areas & Performance
Assume responsibility for the rapid assessment, diagnostics and treatment of women/birthing people within the maternity triage and Day Assessment unit in line with defined ACP competencies
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Full Registration with NMC and a practising midwife
- BSc/BA degree.
- Evidence of post-registration education/ development in midwifery
- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice in relevant specialist clinical field
- Registered Independent Non-Medical Prescriber
Desirable
- Teaching Qualification Working towards a PHD/Doctorate
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Has Comprehension of need for this role
- Understanding of audit/research and assessing evidence
- Expert knowledge of midwifery practice and multidisciplinary team work within consultancy area
- Advanced decision making skills
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team across sites and settings.
- Highly motivated and experienced practitioner with substantive range of experience within Midwifery
- Has the knowledge to support safe clinical decision making
- Proven leadership experience including delivering to targets and service improvement.
- Leadership of teams or change initiatives
- Demonstrates current knowledge of professional and NHS issues and the implication for clinical environment
- Teaching and presentation skills
- Decision making/critical analysis
- Leadership skills capable of supporting and developing service/others
- Networking amongst internal and external professionals / organisations
- Excellent communication skills and potential to develop influencing skills
- Comprehensive understanding of midwifery practice.
- Good interpersonal and organisational skills.
- Assertive
- IT skills
- Can demonstrate application of theory to practice
- Able to demonstrate awareness of current changes in midwifery education and practice
- Ability to work autonomously
- Robust understanding of all aspects of Clinical Governance including previous experience of quality issues, audit and risk management
Desirable
- Evidence of conducting audit/research
- Evidence of effective line management
- Evidence of maintaining complex relationships
- Desire to develop personal and professional skills
Employer details
Employer name
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Address
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
London
SE18 4QH
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
197-RF5889
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