Safeguarding Midwife

This is an exciting opportunity for experienced and skilled practitioners with an interest in further developing their safeguarding experience within an established Safeguarding Service. The post is based at Safeguarding Team, Bedford site of Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bedfordshire.

We are looking for a Registered Midwife who is educated to degree level or working towards a degree with experience in the field of Safeguarding. You should have evidence of on-going professional development and training undertaken in respect of safeguarding and must have recent experience of working directly with children, young people and their families within an acute or community setting.

To succeed you will need excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills and the ability to critically analyse and record information in a concise accurate manner. You will need to be able to comfortably work under pressure, and be able to adapt to prioritising demands often within tight deadlines and adept at prioritising and working flexibly often to a tight deadline. You will be supported to further your own professional knowledge and skills within this specialised area.

We require a highly motivated, committed and flexible practitioner to work with health and multi-agency colleagues to ensure provision of safe and effective services to safeguard vulnerable adults and children/unborn baby's accessing the Trust services.

Key Responsibilities

1. Be an integral member of the Trust safeguarding team working in a complex multi-disciplinary acute hospital environment.
2. Work in collaboration with the multi-agency partners of organisations both voluntary and statutory to improve outcomes for children at risk of abuse or neglect.
3. Provide support and advice to women, their partners and close family members and to develop care plans to reflect individual needs.
4. Provide information and support to the wider maternity multidisciplinary team about robust child protection practice.
5. Participate in the development of child protection plans, to ensure that any individual where there are or have been safeguarding concerns, are safeguarded against further harm when they are in the care of the Trust.
6. Contribute to the development of effective inter-disciplinary and inter-agency relationships to improve outcomes for vulnerable women.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology.

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sharon Wheeler Job title: Named Midwife Safeguarding Email address: sharon.wheeler@bedsft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01234730372