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Consultant Midwife- Clinical Effectiveness and Innovation
The closing date is 29 June 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, visionary Consultant Midwife to join our team at Sherwood Forest Hospital.
The role of the consultant midwife is to provide expert clinical care and leadership within the maternity service. By working in collaboration with the Head of Midwifery, Clinical Director and wider perinatal senior team, the Consultant Midwife will ensure there is effective leadership, education and training, practice and service development and research/evaluation within the maternity service.
The successful candidate will be an expert, autonomous practitioner of midwifery, a role model for midwives, a lead for midwifery research and practice development, and a reference for multi-professional colleagues. The Consultant Midwife will function as an expert midwifery advisor internally and externally.
Apply now to join our team and make a difference in healthcare!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge and experience
* Experienced Midwife with experience in a senior leadership role
* In depth understanding of maternity and neonatal national agendas
* Portfolio of evidence to demonstrate significant achievement in maternity care particularly with regards to leading service redesign
* Demonstrable ability to lead and drive teams of significant size
* Experience in setting up new functions/systems for entire divisions
* Experience of successfully delivering large scale projects which impact multiple staff groups and service areas
* Ability to manage the translation of strategic intent into operational reality
* In depth knowledge of programme and project management tools and techniques
* Knowledge and understanding of the provider health systems financial and commissioning processes
Qualifications
* NMC Registered Midwife
* Educated to masters level or with an equivalent level of specialist training and experience
* Independent non medical prescriber
* Professional Midwifery Advocate
Further Training
* Evidence of commitment to Continued Professional Development
* Evidence of leadership development
* Published in professional journals
* Presentations at local, regional and national events
* Evidence of contribution to original research
Skills and experience
* Understand, disseminate and present complex information in a variety of formats, using both verbal and written disciplines
* Ability to develop business cases required to facilitate service change
* Political astuteness
* Well-developed negotiating and influencing skills
* Effective levels of critical thinking skills, problem solving ability and creative thinking to stimulate action
* Organisational development and change management skills
* Ability to draw effective and speedy solutions from conflicting priorities
* Ability to assess risks, anticipate difficulties and address them
* Confident in providing direction with an ability to lead teams of considerable size
* Demonstrable relationship management skills
* Proactive and able to work autonomously as part of different teams
* Visionary and transformational thinker
* High personal resilience to operate in highly pressurised environments on an ongoing basis and a commitment to deliver
* Ability to inspire colleagues and bring about change
* Strong analytical, numeric and critical reasoning skills
Other requirements
* Able to demonstrate personal integrity, energy and resilience
* Able to deliver competing priorities to time on tight deadlines
* Able to convey a passion for service change
* Able to travel independently to King's Mill Hospital and occasionally other venues in the county
* Able to work in line with the Trust Values and Behaviours framework
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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