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The lead midwife will utilise their midwifery skill and enhanced experience in relation to multiple pregnancy and birth alongside the multidisciplinary team to ensure delivery of safe care with compassion.

 Be able to provide evidence-based, competent and confident care to women with multiple pregnancy during antenatal, labour and postnatal care, including effective handover to infant care and related services.

Have an expert knowledge of multiple pregnancy, management options and effectively signpost to other services or support groups. 

Understand the importance of monitoring both mother and babies during pregnancy, intrapartum and postnatally. 

Facilitate midwife-led clinics, face-to-face, home visits and telephone and online services for clinical decision-making conversations and care provision as required. 

Be able to provide information to the woman and her partner about expectations for antenatal, labour and

postnatal care, which is appropriate to individual women’s specific educational needs.

Be able to deliver parent education through the antenatal and postnatal period for the woman (her partner and family).

Be able to assess mental health and wellbeing of both parents and acting/referring accordingly.

Be able to undertake consultations independently, including assessment, history taking, physical and psychological assessment and ensure that all women attending the service have appropriate follow-up care in place.

To triage referrals and allocate women on to the appropriate lists and ensure that these women are aware of their appointments and plan of care. 

Take responsibility for the co-ordination of the consultant-led lists, and to assist the lead consultants in invasive procedures as required.

Operational Management

Be able to work independently or as part of a team to meet tight deadlines and competing priorities.

Be actively engaged in service development, commissioning and provision of complex care pathways.

Contribute to the Antenatal Services Manager of the Day responsibilities including cover in the absence Antenatal Services managers

As required support:

The team undertake performance development reviews including reviewing the performance measures framework.

Monitor sickness, absence and competence issues in line with Trust Policy as required.

Completion of roster in line with Trust schedule and approve annual leave

Manage recruitment and selection of staff in line with Trust Policy.

Clinical Governance, Audit and Research 

Influence and develop policy making and clinical guidelines internally and externally, necessary to support the specialist midwifery service.

Lead and participate in audit and research and benchmarking activities to ensure effective safe and evidence based practice.

Promote and encourage midwifery practice research in all relevant clinical areas supporting the NUH Non-Medical research strategy.

Provide and promote clinical excellence that reflects the Trust’s Clinical Governance Strategies to include meeting the Standards for Better Health.

Promote the speciality by publishing and presenting innovations and research findings locally and nationally.

Actively promote the specialist service through dissemination of in-depth specialist knowledge, both locally and nationally, establishing robust networks.

Identify, and develop proposals and business cases as required for future service innovation.

Act as a role model and clinical resource demonstrating high standards of care and providing clinical leadership in the specialist area.

Lead in investigation of incidents complaints when required, including detailed reports / letters to complainants. /External investigations as required.

Patient and Public involvement and experience

Promote the philosophy of women centred care and establish and maintain a supportive relationship with the woman and her family at all times.

Promote patient and public involvement and enhance their experience by developing new initiatives that support women centred care.

Contribute to the Directorate and Service strategies for raising the profile of patient and public involvement and embedding this within own sphere of practice. 

Service evaluation, including women’s views (and their partners) on the care they have received.

Be responsible for production of the Patient information leaflets ensuring that they are appropriate to evidence-based information

Education, Training and Practice Development 

Lead the implementation of specialist education and training to all members of the clinical team and midwifery staff within the Directorate in collaboration with the Practice Development Matron. Working with the Directorate Education and Practice Development Lead to ensure that specialist education and training meets the needs of the service, multi-professional clinical teams, patients and carers.

Actively encouraging lifelong learning and personal development through appraisal and Knowledge and Skills framework (KSF) development plans.

Lead the development of a women focused education and information giving strategy within the speciality.

Demonstrate continuous evaluation of practice and make changes where appropriate, within the defined speciality.

Use Education forums and Networks proactively sharing good practice and innovation with others.

Liaise with other groups and assist with the delivery of multi-professional and interprofessional learning.

Provide specialist education teaching, learning and mentoring for pre and post registration students when required and actively contribute to the delivery of the Universities curriculum.