Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding Integrated team
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (09:00 - 17:00 Monday - Friday)
- Job ref
- 381-CO-6363586
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Named Midwife of Safeguarding
Band 8a
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife to join the Safeguarding Team in Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust.
The successful candidate will undertake the statutory role as Named Midwife for Safeguarding in accordance with the role and competencies outlined within 'Working Together to Safeguard Children' (2018) and RCPCH Intercollegiate (2019) guidance.
The Named Midwife will be part of the Safeguarding Senior Management team, alongside the Associate Director of Safeguarding, Named Nurses for Safeguarding Children, Head of Adult Safeguarding and Mental Health Lead. We are a skill mixed team leading a diverse integrated service that ensures vulnerable adults, babies, children, and young people receive appropriate support and protection from harm.
The Named midwife will be required to work collaboratively with colleagues within the Trust as well as externally with key partners and will lead on required activities to ensure that the organisation maintains its statutory safeguarding responsibilities.
The post holder will provide visible, compassionate leadership, offering expert advice, education, and supervision to the workforce across maternity and neonatal services and the wider organisation as required.
For informal enquiries please contact Lorna Webley, Associate Director of Safeguarding - [email protected]
Main duties of the job
To provide expert advice and support to midwives and medical staff in developing care for families where there is concern for the safety of the unborn or delivered baby.
To provide supervision to midwifery staff in accordance with SWBHT Child Protection Supervision Policy
Formulate new policies and update existing guidelines, in conjunction with the Safeguarding Children Lead, Named Nurse, Head of Midwifery, Consultant Midwife, the Multidisciplinary Team and external agencies, to address the needs of this group of women.
Provide advice and support to staff in situations deemed appropriate where there are complex needs including the co-ordination of multi-agency resources for individual clients in need.
To provide expert advice and support to midwives and medical staff in developing care for families where there is concern for the safety of the unborn or delivered baby
To participate in Individual Management Reviews (IMR) and Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews (CSPR) processes as required and ensuring dissemination of recommendations and application of learning
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information regarding this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstratable post registration as a health profession
- Have completed specific training in the care of babies/children and young people and be registered on part 2 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and/ as a registered midwife, Experience at a corporate /strategic level in the NHS
- Experience of designing and undertaking audits
- Ability to demonstrate examples from practice in relation to promoting and improving patient dignity.
- Experience of managing committee work and operational Commitment
- Proven track record in service planning and policy development and change management.
- Extensive experience of Multi-agency / partnership working
- Significant experience of working in the of field child protection
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of counselling in care or other related field.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters degree or equivalent experience
- NMC registration
- Management/leadership qualification
- Evidence of CPD
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Safeguarding training levels 1 to 4
- Training qualifications D32/33 or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Project Management qualification
- Mental Capacity Act training
- EDCL (European Driving License)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lorna Webley
- Job title
- Associate Director of Safeguarding
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 507 2844
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