About this role
Job summary
Are you a passionate midwife dedicated to making a difference to our families with complex social needs?
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Midwife to join our complex social factors team here at The Royal London Hospital. The role involves championing the welfare of women, babies and their families when they need it most.
You need to have a passion for complex social factors and be committed to ensuring safeguarding procedures are adhered to in the clinical setting. You must also be able to lead teaching sessions, share learning, empower colleagues and consider refreshing ways to improve safeguarding training compliance across maternity.
The applicant must also be confident in their safeguarding knowledge in order to support and advise appropriately, while working in line with local and national standards.
You will provide woman focused and family centered midwifery care within a community and hospital setting. You'll work in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary teams, enhancing and promoting the health, wellbeing and safeguarding of mothers and their babies.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is the Specialist Safeguarding Midwife based at The Royal London Hospital. The post holder will be supported by a team of midwives who provide enhanced midwifery care to vulnerable families to ensure safety and compassion during their pregnancy journey.
The Specialist Midwife for Safeguarding will support all activities necessary in maternity services to ensure that the organisation meets its responsibilities to safeguard and protect children and young people.
The Midwife will identify and co-ordinate the provision of multidisciplinary care for socially vulnerable women through support, advice and training for staff dealing with complex child protection issues. The post holder will provide high quality, effective midwifery care that is evidence based and woman centred.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledgerequired. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered Midwife on NMC Register at band 6 or above Supported Learning in the Clinical Environment Relevant Child Protection training Mentorship qualification
Desirable
Safeguarding Supervision course attended
Experience Essential
Evidence of continuous professional development Knowledge and understanding of Statutory Midwifery Supervision Significant experience in managing Child Protection issues Experience of undertaking audits and implementing/monitoring action plans Evidence of previous teaching experience Experience in working closely with external partners, i.e. CCG and Local Authority in relation to safeguarding
Knowledge Essential
Knowledge and understanding of Domestic Violence, including relevant legislation, national policy and professional standards In depth understanding of the complexities related to child protection
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 (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Barts Health NHS Trust
Address Royal London Hospital
London
E1 1FR
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)