Lead Midwife for Safeguarding
- Bradford
- £55,690-62,682 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.
- We value people
- We are one team
- We care
- 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.
- 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.
- IT skills eg. Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
- Presentation/teaching skills
- Able to demonstrate participation in innovation, change projects, working with service users to improve care.
- NMC Registered Midwife.
- Educated to degree level in a relevant subject or equivalent level qualification.
- Highly specialist training in safeguarding.
- Mentorship/teaching qualification.
- Additional training in counselling skills/safeguarding supervision.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- IT skills eg. Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
- Presentation/teaching skills
- Able to demonstrate participation in innovation, change projects, working with service users to improve care.
- NMC Registered Midwife.
- Educated to degree level in a relevant subject or equivalent level qualification.
- Highly specialist training in safeguarding.
- Mentorship/teaching qualification.
- Additional training in counselling skills/safeguarding supervision.
- 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.