Band 6 Compliance Midwife

University Hospitals Birmingham; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits in the Maternity Governance team at a leading NHS Foundation Trust. This role involves assisting in the development and evaluation of maternity clinical audit systems, ensuring service improvements are based on evidence and data interpretation. You will collaborate closely with Assurance Midwives to meet national targets, while presenting findings to diverse audiences. The Trust is committed to creating the best workplace for its staff, offering flexible working, training opportunities, and fostering an inclusive culture. If you are passionate about improving maternity services and making a difference in families' experiences, this position is for you.

Benefits

Flexible working

Training and development opportunities

Health and wellbeing investments

Qualifications

• Must have a Midwifery Degree and be a Registered Midwife.
• Proficient in data interpretation and digital maternity systems.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the development and evaluation of maternity clinical audit systems.
• Collate and interpret time-sensitive data for service improvements.

Skills

Data interpretation

Excel

Word

Digital maternity systems

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Problem-solving

Knowledge of SBL and NHS improvements

Education

Midwifery Degree

Registered Midwife

Current Professional Registration

Tools

Excel

Word

Digital maternity systems

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to work with the Maternity Governance team by assisting in the development, implementation and evaluation of the maternity clinical audit systems and processes. To support service improvements and implementation of evidence-based practice and the findings of audits which will be presented to a multidisciplinary audience. You will work closely with Assurance Midwives to ensure SBLv3 and national ambition targets are met. You will work within the governance team who strive to continually improve outcomes for our families and their birth experiences by identifying where our service needs targeted work for improvement. You must be confident in creating, interpreting and presenting data through a variety of channels.

To work closely with the Assurance Midwives and be an integral part of the wider Maternity Governance Team. You will need to collate and interpret time-sensitive data and be proficient in Excel, Word, digital maternity systems, and the ability to access guidelines, policies, and procedures to collate data, produce reports, and present findings to a variety of audiences.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

1. Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment to offering flexible working where we can;
2. Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reaches their true potential, achieves their ambitions and thrives in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Midwifery Degree
• Registered Midwife
• Current Professional Registration
• Evidence of CPD Mentor/Assessor training or willing to work towards

Experience

• Recent clinical practice
• Evidence of well-documented and up-to-date CPD portfolio
• Ability to work autonomously within professional and Trust Guidelines
• Knowledge of SBL and 3 Year Delivery Plan
• Knowledge of NHS improvements & priorities
• Knowledge of local health promotional strategies
• Knowledge of needs of high and low-risk women and neonates
• Knowledge of the demands/needs of the diverse service user population
• Able to give advice on a range of maternity issues to clients, multidisciplinary team, external agencies and others
• Knowledge of child protection issues and required actions.
• Knowledge of legal and ethical principles in midwifery for choice, consent, client autonomy
• Know the key steps to take in the management of obstetric emergency whilst waiting for medical assistance in the hospital and community
• Good understanding of quality and safety process management
• Able to use a variety of computer packages, including Excel, Word, and digital maternity systems, with the ability to access guidelines, policies and procedures to collate data, produce reports and present findings to a variety of audiences

Additional Criteria

• Able to assess and devise, implement, monitor and evaluate plans of care
• Good organisational skills
• Ability to delegate
• Ability to act as preceptorship mentor as required
• Ability to assess student midwives/others as required
• Influencing and persuasive skills
• Ability to co-ordinate staff rota
• Possess good written communication skills to maintain clear, concise, contemporaneous records
• Effective customer care skills
• Able to speak, receive and issue instructions in English without the risk of misunderstanding
• Be able to communicate effectively via telephone, individually or within group discussions
• Have excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills, appropriate across a range of ethnic and socio-economic groups
• Ability to proficiently utilise interpreters
• Ability to sensitively communicate distressing information and discuss sensitive issues (e.g., Intra Uterine death, stillbirth, fetal abnormality, child protection issues)
• Communicate effectively and offer support to aggressive and distressed women/family members
• To communicate effectively with multidisciplinary teams and outside agencies
• Take opportunities to impart knowledge at an appropriate level for health promotion, parent education and mentoring students and junior midwives
• Able to work as an individual and as part of a team
• Have a high level of commitment, motivation, innovation and initiative
• Able to ask for support
• Good problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to prioritise
• Able to delegate staff, day to day and in emergency situations
• Have confidence to be an effective advocate for women
• Ability to continually update knowledge, skills and challenge practice
• Constant application of analytical skills in practice to manage cases individually
• Able to investigate, analyse and interpret the complexities of cases and formulate plans of care, for example, mental health, child protection, other high-risk cases
• Able to manage multiple time-sensitive demands
• Able to teach and support students while undertaking all other daily activities
• Able to safely move/transport equipment
• Perform maternal and neonatal resuscitation
• Know the prevention and management procedures to bodily fluids exposure.
• Know the prevention and management procedures of exposure to clients with hepatitis B, HIV, tuberculosis, MRSA, sexually transmitted infections
• Able to cope if exposed to verbal/physical aggression.
• Ability to contribute to upholding the security of the maternity unit

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact:

Joanna Gavin
[e-mail]
01214240863

Agenda for Change

Band

Band 6

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-Time, Full-Time, Flexible Working

Reference number

304-9005028LD

Job locations

Trustwide
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH