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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Communications and Relationship skills

The post holder is required to:

• Establish and maintain relationships with the women, families and multidisciplinary team through excellent communication
• Have the ability to motivate, negotiate and train others.
• Demonstrate the ability to empathise and communicate unpleasant news sensitively.
• Provide counselling and reassurance within their scope of responsibility. Where barriers and difficulties arise in exercising these skills early identification and referral will be expected.
• Empower the woman to make informed choices whilst being aware of safeguarding issues and act as an advocate as necessary
• Liaise and participate with child protection issues at all levels.

 Analytical and Judgemental skills

The post holder is required to:

• Be experts in the provision and facilitation of physiological birth
• Provide and facilitate the care of women with complex needs in partnership with the multidisciplinary team
• Plan and implement individualised care whilst advocating for the women where necessary
• Recognise, risk assess and report any deviation from the normal involving senior midwifery and medical staff
• Take appropriate action in emergency situations and decide on the best course of action/treatment according to local policy.

Planning and Organisational skills

The post holder is required to:

• Be aware of their role in the departmental and organisational structure.
• To engage in activities which support the day to day running of the Maternity Department
• Prioritise own time and workload to ensure priorities are met and quality is not compromised
• Participate in the training, supervision and mentorship of junior colleagues and student midwives

Patient/Client Care

The post holder is required to:

• Refer to departmental guidelines, as well as local and national policies whilst planning and implementing evidence based, safe, holistic care for the woman and her baby
• Maintain effective relations with the multidisciplinary team to reassess, and evaluate care plans and promptly act to implement these changes
• Take into consideration the needs of women as reported to the Trust through the Friends and Family test (FFT)
• Maintain the NMC standards of record keeping.
• Comply with the local trust documentation requirements (Maternity Records and IT systems) to ensure that records are maintained to reflect the care, treatment, advice and tests provided

Policy and Service Development Implementation

The post holder is required to:

• Engage in any internal quality assurance and patient safety activities such as audits and incident reporting, whilst encouraging others to do the same.
• Works to support the team and can be counted on when people ask for help or support
• Monitors the quality of work in own area and alerts others to quality issues, reporting any errors or issues to the appropriate person
• Be aware of planned service improvements, reading and commenting on draft proposals when aske

Financial and Physical Development (inc. equipment, stock etc)

The post holder is required to:

• Uses trust resources with care, effectively and encourages others to do the same
• Ensure that stock levels and equipment are maintained adequately

Human Resources (inc. developing and delivering training)

The post holder is required to:

• Manage own case loads
• Takes responsibility for meeting own development needs, attends annual appraisal and fully engages in all educational and development opportunities and maintains a record of their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and professional portfolio
• Enables opportunities for students and juniors to apply their developing knowledge and skills
• Actively provides learning and development opportunities to students and actively contributes to the evaluation of the effectiveness of their learning/ and development opportunities
• Be involved in undertaking annual appraisals and personal development plans where required.

Information Resources

The post holder is required to

• To ensure data is recorded accurately and timely into maternity records and IT systems entered
• Updating and maintaining information databases or systems
• Maintaining confidentiality
• Sharing information only when essential

Research and Development

The post holder is required to

Have an awareness of research activity that is happening within the department and contribute to this research when appropriate; be aware of new research and evidence based practice that could enhance the patient experience and patient care.

Professional

The post holder is required to

• Maintains professional registration
• Works within the limits of own competence and area of responsibility and accountability.
• Work within the NMC Code and Standards of proficiency for midwives