This post is only open to internal applicants.
Lead Midwife for Public Health
Band 7
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 4 months
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 203-FH425
- Site
- Warwick Hospital
- Town
- Warwick
- Salary
- £41,659 - £47,672 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/02/2023 23:59
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top performing organisations within the NHS. Our staff think this is a great place to work and we hope you will agree. We have recently been rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following our most recent inspection.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the whole county. This includes our Community Teams in North Warwickshire.
We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Over 5300 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don’t need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare.
The first thing you will notice about us is how we take our values seriously. We believe that our values underpin everything we do. If you are interested in a role with us you need to make sure our values match your own.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide inclusive, safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Probationary Period
All new staff to the Trust will be subject to a standard 6 month probationary period, the details of which will duly follow in your contract of employment.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued and respected and that our organisation is representative of all members of society. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – we value our employees, job applicants, students, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our values of being Inclusive, Safe, Effective, Compassionate and Trusted.
Agile and Flexible Working
All our staff will have a work base. However the Trust operates as an Agile Working Team therefore staff may be working from home on a regular basis as required by the service. However, occasionally travel around Warwickshire and into your base will be required so access to your own transport would be helpful.
Staff Benefits
The Trust offer a wide range of additional benefits to staff. Anyone who joins us on a substantive basis can assess things such as the Lease Car Scheme, Electronics Scheme, Discounted Leisure and Travel, Cycle to work scheme amongst many others available.
Car Parking
The Trust have recently completed the construction of a multi-storey car park at our Warwick Hospital site. This ensures all new staff joining the Trust will have access to car parking facilities without the need to go on a waiting list.
To keep up to date on our latest recruitment activity follow us on twitter @swftrecruit or look us up on Facebook (Recruitment - South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust).
Job overview
SWFT Maternity Services believe that every family should have the very best beginning achieved through providing a safer, more personalised, kinder and more family friendly service.
We are looking for a passionate, enthusiastic leader, who is committed to improving public health services and education within the maternity team.
The role include focusing upon improving outcomes of women with in the following key areas:
Parent Education.
Smoking during pregnancy.
Weight management before, during and after pregnancy.
Breastfeeding/attachment.
Immunisations and Vaccinations.
Mental Health.
Domestic Violence and Abuse.
We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic midwife with an interest in Public Health to provide service cover for a short fixed term contract.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead and co-ordinate Public Health training and initiatives within maternity services; ensuring patients are supported to maximise health and wellbeing opportunities.
Working for our organisation
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Communicate effectively with clinical, operational, administration and corporate staff via email, telephone and face to face contact in order to deliver the requirements of the role.
The Public Health Project Midwife will have experience that will enable them to:
Work closely with public health stakeholders within Warwickshire and Coventry Local Maternity System to implement the maternity public health strategy.
Support mothers/parents to be active participants in identifying their health needs and work in partnership with mothers/parents to improve both their health and the health of their unborn child.
Asset based approach to be adopted by maternity services co-ordinating care with Health visitors and Family Centre staff.
Lead on the public health strategies such as smoking and weight management and work closely with others to support public health priorities.
Work closely with other specialist midwives to ensure a co-ordinated approach across public health priority areas; Mental Health, Parent Education, Breastfeeding etc.
Link directly with the smoking perception midwives to analyse inputs and outputs of service.
Through training support staff to lead conversations with mums to be around weight management during pregnancy and refer to the Fitter Futures programme.
Lead on development and every day management of this project including: staff training, policy development and adherence, data collection, quality and audit.
The post holder will fulfil the role of an integrated midwife within the Maternity Service, undertaking one shift per month in clinical practice.
The post holder will ensure the relevant Midwifery Guidelines and clinical pathways are up to date and staff are trained to know about smoking, obesity and trained to support conversations on public health priorities.
The Midwife will also fulfil the role of an integrated midwife within the South Warwickshire NHS Trust Maternity Service and support the Midwifery strategy in conjunction with the Head / Deputy Head of Midwifery.
Measurable Result Areas
Key work will focus upon improving outcomes of women with modifiable risk factors such as obesity, smoking, and developing and implementing processes to secure a year on year increase in uptake of immunizations and breastfeeding.
Be able to demonstrate the link with Health visiting with regards to the Video interactive guidance (VIG) and perinatal mental health pathways and how this training is disseminated to maternity staff.
Represent South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust at local, regional and national level when appropriate, influencing service development in relation to public health.
The post holder will work closely with the Senior Midwifery Team to further develop related pathways and guidelines to assure appropriate and responsive care.
To undertake training sessions on Public Health.
Submit monthly updates to the Head of Midwifery through the unit meetings.
Liaise with the Smoking Cessation Nurse SWFT.
Liaise with SWFT training Leads, Lead Nurses, Head of Midwifery, and Deputy Head of Midwifery, Lead Midwives and Ward managers regarding training strategies.
Ensure records are maintained in accordance with NMC guidelines.
To work actively to improve outcomes and meet agreed targets.
Maintain confidentiality.
Responsible for providing a good learning environment and culture for student midwives and other health professionals.
Communications and Working Relationships
Demonstrate clear, effective extended communication skills with colleagues and other agencies; to ensure effective implementation of objectives.
Provide timely accurate project progress reports to all key stake holders.
Initiate the procedure for any complaints, accidents and incidents which occur whilst on duty and report these to the senior midwife.
Be aware of and maintain professional standards of conduct as per the NMC Rules and Codes.
Be able to take action if others do not meet the required standards.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered midwife
- Recognised Teaching and Assessor Qualification
- Degree
- Qualification in Public Health/ working towards
Desirable criteria
- Undertaken a management course
- Completed NLS course
- Completed NLS course
Experience
Essential criteria
- 5 years Post-Registration experience
- Evidence of management/ leadership skills and autonomous practice
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Recent experience in antenatal and postnatal care (High risk and midwifery led)
- Expert knowledge of obstetric complications
Skills
Essential criteria
- Teaching and Assessing Skills
- Effective communicator
- Leadership and motivation skills
- Computer literate
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Ability to supervise and demonstrate potential to lead
- Organisational and negotiation skills
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Diplomatic
- Assertive and confident
- Personal and professional maturity
- Recognition of own limitations
- Demonstrates enthusiasm
Desirable criteria
- Counselling skills
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to work both on own initiative and within a team
- Flexibility
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Sometimes we get a lot of applications for our roles. On those occasions we might close the job early. If you don’t want to miss out we recommend submitting your application as early as possible.
The Trust use an Applicant Management System called TRAC which helps us manage the recruitment process. All communications regarding your application will come via TRAC (even if you applied via NHS Jobs).
Please check your TRAC account regularly and ensure your email is set up to accept messages so they don't go into your junk/spam folder.
We aim to shortlist all vacancies within 2 days of the vacancy closing, we will get back to all candidates ASAP.
Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address.
South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer who is committed to Equality and Diversity and does not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the grounds of any protected characteristic as defined by the Equality Act 2010.
All South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust sites are smoke free. We feel it’s a great way to help our patients, visitors and staff stay healthy.
The Trust is part of a ‘Foundation Group’ through a strategic alliance with Wye Valley NHS Trust and George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust. This partnership is great for the sustainability ofall threeorganisations and allows us to share learning and maximise opportunities to ensure the delivery of high quality health and care services for our local populations.
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
- Job Description (PDF, 133.2KB)
- Person Specification (PDF, 136.6KB)
- Functional Requirements (PDF, 548.4KB)
- Occupational Health Functional Requirements Form (PDF, 207.6KB)
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Leeks
- Job title
- Transformation and Workforce Lead
- Email address
- lisa.leeks@swft.nhs.uk
- Additional information
Ext. 6984
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