We are recruiting for a Named Safeguarding Midwife who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. This is an excellent opportunity to join the safeguarding team within the Trust. You will be a fundamental part of the safeguarding team and work closely with the maternity division to ensure that the safeguarding remains at the heart of practice within Midwifery. Our values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Responsibilities
The primary purpose of this position is to ensure the safety and welfare of all pregnant women and their babies in receipt of care within East and North Hertfordshire NHS Teaching Trust services. In order to undertake this, the post holder will manage and lead the safeguarding midwifery and perinatal mental health team, and will contribute to delivering the wider safeguarding and mental health services. You will be responsible for offering expert advice and guidance to staff in all matters relating to maternity safeguarding and perinatal mental health and to ensure that we develop a confident and competent workforce that is able to recognise and appropriately respond to any safeguarding concerns. Working closely with the wider safeguarding team you will continually improve and develop the safeguarding agenda, aligning with the Trust's strategic agenda, as well as local and national safeguarding priorities and guidance. Providing effective communication, networking and liaison, establishing and maintaining good working relationships within health services and other agencies to ensure that information relating to safeguarding is up to date and embedded in practice.
Qualifications
Essential Qualifications
* 1st level registered midwife with extensive experience within an acute or community setting
* Evidence of post registration CPD in relation to safeguarding, including law, policy and practice
* Supervisory qualification or equivalent
* Leadership or management module
* Evidence of professional continuous development and portfolio of learning
* Willingness and ability to work towards master's qualification or equivalent
* Masters level qualifications relevant to safeguarding or equivalent CPD evidence
Desirable Qualifications
* Teaching qualification
Previous Experience
Essential Previous Experience
* Extensive experience of working within midwifery services both acute and community setting
* Significant experience in working within the safeguarding arena
* Evidence of leading service change
* Managing and/or leading a team
* Knowledge and experience in development of policies, procedures and standards
* Vast experience in delivering safeguarding supervision
* Evidence to and contribution to local multi‑agency groups, systems and networks
* Evidence of delivering safeguarding training
* Experience of working under pressure and to deadlines
* Experience of supporting service change
* Experience of inter‑agency working
* Expert knowledge of legislation relevant to safeguarding – including information sharing
* Knowledge of statutory and voluntary organisations
* Experience of undertaking audit, and development of practice
* Knowledge of the current Government guidelines relating to Child Protection work
* Awareness of recent research and developments relating to Child protection work and its implications for practice
Desirable Previous Experience
* Management responsibilities
Skills
Essential Skills
* Good communication and listening skills
* Leadership skills
* Ability to respond positively to change
* Ability to analyse issues and think critically
* Problem solving skills
* Understanding of the implications of the Children Act 1989 and 2004 in relation to Child Protection work
* Excellent organisational skills
* Good negotiating skills, knowledge of risk management
* Able to communicate with all levels of staff within the Trust and a variety of agencies
* Able to work autonomously
* Able to support staff in decision making processes in complex circumstances
* Understanding of the roles and responsibilities of other statutory and voluntary agencies in Child Protection
* Experience and skills in training and presentations
* Good IT skills and presentation skills
Desirable Skills
* Understanding of local authority policy and practice
* Understanding of current NHS policy
* Knowledge of clinical governance
Other Requirements
Essential Other Requirements
* Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
* Role model our Trust values every day, knowledge of risk management
* Able to communicate with all levels of staff within the Trust and a variety of agencies
* Able to work autonomously
* Able to support staff in decision making processes in complex circumstances
* Understanding of the roles and responsibilities of other statutory and voluntary agencies in Child Protection
* Experience and skills in training and presentations
* Good IT skills and presentation skills
Desirable Other Requirements
* Understanding of local authority policy and practice
* Understanding of current NHS policy
* Knowledge of clinical governance, experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
* Role model our Trust values every day
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
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* Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient‑led Trust where dedicated staff provide high‑quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
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