37.5 hours per week
Secondment for 12 months
Salary: £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Closing Date: 16th October 2025
Interview Date: TBC
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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.
The main duties for this role are outlined in full within the job description. the categories include; clinical, managerial and operational responsibilities. Additionally, there is a key role within training, research and development.
Here at George Eliot our vision to ' excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
E ffective Open Communication
e x cellence and safety in everything we do
C hallenge but support
E xpect respect and dignity
L ocal health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
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Provide and receive complex information, where barriers to acceptance. Empathetic for agreed co-operation and work through barriers.
Work closely with public health stakeholders within Warwickshire and Coventry Local Maternity System to implement the maternity public health strategy.
Support mothers/patients 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 during pregnancy, weight management before during and after pregnancy, and vaccinations and immunisations.
Responsibility for patient/client care. Provides highly specialised clinical services relating to patients.
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 and support workers 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 postholder may be required to work within the clinical staffing dependant on acuity of the maternity unit, this would involve exposure to bodily fluids and potential for physically challenging working conditions.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.