We have a great opportunity for a Professional Midwifery Advocate to join our team at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

This is full time ( 37.5 hour per week) post cross side or 18.75 hpw on Colchester and 18.75 hpw on Ipswich site.

You will support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service and act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate the Trust Values and behaviours.

Main duties of the job

The post holder must be available to deploy the A-EQUIP model as required by the Trust.

To support midwives to identify their own personal action for quality improvement if required.

Use their understanding of personal and professional resilience and support others to develop this attribute.

Ensure that there is a strong interface between the PMA and Clinical Governance across ESNEFT.

Use their expert knowledge in midwifery practice to support the Head of Midwifery in implementing and monitoring midwifery practice, ensuring that there are robust clinical governance assurance systems in place relating to midwifery practice.

• Provide support to midwives in sharing of good practice learnt through the maternity services' internal risk management processes with the aim of reducing the incidence of harm and obstetric litigation cases.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Educated to 1st level degree, BSc level or equivalent level of qualification or experience
• Mentorship preparation or demonstration of level or experience
• Willing to undertake PMA programme

Desirable

• Masters qualification or equivalent
• Relevant post-basic course
• Completed PMA programme
• ALSO course

Experience

Essential

• Broad knowledge and experience of midwifery practice and supervision of midwives
• Experience in escalating concerns.
• Evidence of working in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
• oEvidence an understanding of and engagement with clinical governance pathways.

Desirable

• Developing clinical competencies
• Experience of a leadership role
• Project management training

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester/ Ipswich Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

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