An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Midwife in the role of Public Health Lead Midwife, leading on the agenda within the maternity service to support mothers to be to improve their health, and therefore have an improved impact on the health of their unborn child.
The post holder will work in partnership with service users, the maternity team and local stakeholders to improve and protect health and well-being, reducing health inequalities and improving the health of the families.
The post holder will be required to influence practice, policies and strategies both within the service, the trust and within the local health economy. This will require the post holder to develop in collaboration with other specialist midwives the most appropriate care pathways to have the most effective and efficient impact.
The post holder will work in partnership with service users, the multi-disciplinary team and local stakeholders to improve and protect health and wellbeing, and improve the health of families in the Liverpool City Region, contributing to improving the population's health and reducing health inequalities within maternity services. Key work will focus upon improving outcomes of women with modifiable risk factors such as smoking, obesity and breastfeeding, developing and implementing processes to secure a year on year increase in uptake of immunisation.
A significant part of the role will be to assist in the project management of the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation process.
Liverpool Women's delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and their families. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career.
We value the contribution of individual talent and are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the local community. We will consider requests for flexible working on hiring.
Our core value is to ' Be Kind' and we have an ambition to 'Be Brilliant' with the best people, giving the safest care, to provide outstanding experiences.
The Trust is constantly innovating and evolving it's services to provide the most cutting edge care possible. We have long-term aspirations for the future.
We are committed to creating a greener Liverpool Women's
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