Employer Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Women's and Newborn Unit, Bradford Royal Infirmary Town Bradford Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 04/09/2025 23:59
Lead Midwife for Safeguarding
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Bradford is a thriving, vibrant city and one of the most diverse places in the UK. Additionally, Bradford has a diverse age structure, a high proportion of people aged under 25. Bradford is currently enjoying its designation of UK City of Culture 2025 and increased investment and development to transform it into a hub that celebrates its cultural diversity.
We are looking for a Midwife with significant knowledge of midwifery safeguarding, including experience at operational and strategic delivery level. Do you possess leadership skills, leading teams, multi-agency working, and managing difficult situations, and hold a passion for supporting staff who care for families through socially and emotionally difficult pregnancies to achieve the right outcomes for their newborn babies? Can you hear the voice of the child behind the adults as a focus on achieving the best outcomes for families? Do you have what it takes to work in a challenging environment while imparting knowledge, leadership and expert support to enhance an empathetic and safe experience for all involved in unborn safeguarding, and the skills to develop the strategic direction of midwifery safeguarding for the service?
We need a band 8a lead safeguarding midwife to lead the maternity safeguarding team in improving support and supervision for staff and enable BTHFT to provide the best possible care for families with complex safeguarding concerns.
Main duties of the job
* To be the Named Midwife for Midwifery services, providing strategic and operational leadership, specialist support, and advice for members of staff working in women’s services and the wider Trust and to raise the profile of safeguarding issues in the clinical areas, with a particular emphasis on liaison with external agencies and good practice on attendance, admission and discharge.
* To be a key member of the wider Trust integrated safeguarding team, providing specialist information on maternity safeguarding issues and ensuring shared learning between maternity, adult and children's safeguarding teams.
* To work closely with wider multi-agency colleagues, including mental health, children's social care, and the police, to ensure the best outcomes for Bradford women, birthing people, babies, and families.
* To lead and support the Maternity Safeguarding team in assisting ward managers and staff in the delivery of high-quality Maternity safeguarding practice throughout the service users care journey.
* Demonstrate knowledge in relation to safeguarding and practice, such as Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023), and relevant internal and external policies and procedures.
* Provide safeguarding supervision and complex case management guidance.
Working for our organisation
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
* We are one team
We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder assume the position of Named Midwife for Safeguarding and carry out operational responsibilities as set out in Working Together (2023) and the Intercollegiate document (2019) in the application and development of the national safeguarding agenda for Maternity services at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BTHFT).
To lead the team to develop safe and effective practice and identify risks in accordance with BTHFT’s Safeguarding Children Policy, to ensure appropriate action is taken in line with the policy and standard operating procedures and guidance.
To support managers and staff in the delivery of high-quality safeguarding adult, unborn and children practice throughout the service users care journey, particularly in respect of robust safe practice in admission, care planning, discharge planning and community care.
The post holder will work closely with all levels of staff in maternity services, the wider trust and with statutory and voluntary agencies to continue to develop safe effective practice in safeguarding newborn infants.
The post holder will develop, deliver and evaluate training, both for use in single and multiagency forums at all levels as identified in the Intercollegiate document.
The post holder will provide safeguarding supervision to maternity based staff and others at all levels across BTHFT
Person specification
Experience
* Experience as a Registered Midwife.
* Significant experience working in unborn safeguarding and risk assessment of the voice of the child behind the adult.
* Extensive experience of multi-agency partnership working and working across organisational boundaries.
* Lead service development and implementation of change through clinical leadership.
* Evidence of influencing improvement and overcoming resistance to change.
* Experience of leading and managing staff.
Skills
* Excellent verbal and written command of English.
* Highly refined interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal. Demonstrates a compassionate and culturally respectful approach to communication.
* Highly developed systematic clinical assessment, analytical and problem-solving skills.
* Excellent time management and self-organisation skills to prioritise workload and work without direct supervision.
* Experience of report writing in relation to safeguarding.
* Ability to work as part of a team whilst being self-motivated and being able to motivate and empower others.
* Ability to communicate specialist knowledge to a range of multi- disciplinary and multi-agency professionals.
* Presentation/teaching skills
* Able to demonstrate participation in innovation, change projects, working with service users to improve care.
Qualifications
* NMC Registered Midwife.
* Educated to degree level in a relevant subject or equivalent level qualification.
* Highly specialist training in safeguarding.
* Additional training in counselling skills/safeguarding supervision.
Knowledge
* Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality.
* Extensive knowledge of safeguarding children policies and procedures and best practice nationally and locally.
* Safeguarding training and supervision knowledge and experience.
* Knowledge of the local current issues and learning from Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews.
* Knowledge of the extensive network of services with acute, primary and third sector care orientated to meet the needs of families.
* Understanding of a trauma-informed approach to care.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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