Named Midwife for Safeguarding (Band 8a)

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust; Exley Head; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cycle to Work

Travel Scheme

Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrif…

Onsite Nursery

Buying and Selling Annual Leave

Car Leasing

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Health and Wellbeing

Extensive Reward Scheme

Counselling Service

Financial packages including Vivup and

Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow,Gender

Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network

Job summary

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust invites an experienced midwifery leader to become Named Midwife for Safeguarding. The role provides visible leadership across maternity services, shaping safeguarding strategy, assurance and improvements while meeting statutory duties.

You will work with the Deputy Chief Nurse and Director of Midwifery, travel as needed, and drive cross-agency safeguarding initiatives for women, babies and families.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert safeguarding advice, supervision and professional leadership to maternity teams.
• Lead the maternity safeguarding work plan, audit programme, policy development and service improvement.
• Support complex case management, reviews and legal processes, ensuring learning is translated into sustained improvement.
• Produce high-quality assurance, performance and annual reports for senior leaders, committees, commissioners and regulators.
• Build strong partnerships across health, social care, police, safeguarding partnerships and regional and national networks.
• Lead and develop the maternity safeguarding team, champions and specialist safeguarding midwife.

Job description

We are seeking an experienced, compassionate and highly credible midwifery leader to join Airedale NHS Foundation Trust as our Named Midwife for Safeguarding. This is a pivotal senior role, providing expert leadership, professional advice and assurance across maternity services and working with partners to protect women, unborn babies, children and families, As Named Midwife for Safeguarding, you will provide visible, accessible and authoritative leadership for safeguarding across acute and community maternity services. You will shape strategy, strengthen practice, lead assurance and improvement, and ensure that statutory duties, national standards and local multi-agency requirements are consistently met.

• Provide expert safeguarding advice, supervision and professional leadership to maternity teams.
• Lead the maternity safeguarding work plan, audit programme, policy development and service improvement.
• Support complex case management, reviews and legal processes, ensuring learning is translated into sustained improvement.
• Produce high-quality assurance, performance and annual reports for senior leaders, committees, commissioners and regulators.
• Build strong partnerships across health, social care, police, safeguarding partnerships and regional and national networks.
• Lead and develop the maternity safeguarding team, champions and specialist safeguarding midwife.
  This is an opportunity to influence safeguarding practice across the organisation and wider system in a role with genuine strategic reach. You will work closely with the Deputy Chief Nurse, Patient Safety & Head of Safeguarding and the Director of Midwifery, alongside committed clinical teams and multi-agency partners. The post is based at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and requires travel across the district as necessary.

Benefits and Perks

• Cycle to Work
• Travel Scheme
• Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
• Onsite Nursery
• Buying and Selling Annual Leave
• Car Leasing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Health and Wellbeing
• Extensive Reward Scheme
• Counselling Service
• Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
• Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.

Our Values

Our values: We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:

• Committed to Quality of Care
• Compassion
• Working together for patients
• Improving Lives
• Everyone Counts
• Respect and Dignity