The MFT Corporate Safeguarding team are looking for a registered midwife to join a fast paced and dynamic workplace. This busy but successful team is ideally located within the antenatal clinic at St Mary's maternity hospital's Oxford Road Campus. With our friendly support and mentoring you will draw and build on your previous safeguarding knowledge and skills to work with mothers, their families and other agencies to ensure that the thousands of babies born at St Mary's are effectively safeguarded. You will develop close working relationships with Safeguarding Midwives at the other hospital sites within MFT and across Greater Manchester. Over time you will develop training skills and participate in the delivery of Level 3 Safeguarding Training in collaboration with the wider trust safeguarding team. You will be fully supported to develop into the role so whilst previous experience working within a safeguarding team would be desirable, it is not essential.

If you are interested in applying we would welcome a visit or a phone call from you to discuss the job further and answer any questions you may have.

The job on offer is permanent but we could also offer a fixed term contract or a secondment depending on the situation of the successful applicant.

Main duties of the job

Your day to day role will include providing advice to the ward midwives caring for inpatients and to Community Midwives encountering safeguarding concerns in community clinics and home settings.

You will maintain a visible presence in the clinical areas.

You will be responsible for ensuring that St Mary's staff are supported to represent the Trust at multi-agency meetings including strategy meetings, Initial Child Protection Case Conferences and Reviews. You will support St Mary's staff to fulfill their safeguarding duties and will give practical support to St Mary's when necessary to ensure there are no gaps in the provision.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Qualified midwife
• Experience of safeguarding within maternity eg ICPCC Strategy meeting
• Clearly written application with high standard of spelling and grammar
• Mentions passion and enthusiasm and gives reason for applying
• Gives an example of learning from a CSPR and how it influenced practice

Desirable

• Experience in a safeguarding role
• Experience of delivering training
• Experience of audit or a peer review

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Midwifery degree
• Evidence of ongoing professional development and training undertaken of safeguarding to a minimum level 3

Employer details

Employer name

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Oxford Road Campus

Manchester

M13 9WL

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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