We are seeking an inspirational and highly experienced senior midwife whose role as Associate Director of Midwifery is key to ma.....
We are seeking an inspirational and highly experienced senior midwife whose role as Associate Director of Midwifery is key to maintaining strong professional oversight and governance.
The role involves working in partnership with other organisations across the Local Maternity system and Integrated Care Boards. You will develop and maintain a network of mutually beneficial relationships with other maternity providers, Public Health England, Health Education England, Care Quality Commission, the Regional Chief Midwife, the Royal Colleges, and other key stakeholders.
You will be a clinically credible practitioner and act as an advocate and role model for personalised care and evidence-based midwifery in line with national agendas, utilising expert knowledge.
This is an exciting senior midwifery leadership role working across a multi-site trust. Our workforce comprises of 27 Consultant Obstetricians, 29 Registrars in training or clinical fellows and 430 Midwives.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB), has received a major trust investment into maternity services, additional footprint being agreed and the trust leading on the collaboration to recruit midwives from overseas.
You will inherit a midwifery workforce that is truly committed to patient safety and a maternity team that wants to make UHDB the safest maternity service in the country.
The Associate Director of Midwifery role is a key position within the Maternity senior leadership and wider Divisional Management Team and has a prime focus on the day-to-day delivery of high-quality standards of patient care across the hospital and community midwifery services.
You will work with the Divisional and Midwifery Management Team to provide professional and clinical leadership support to the division and service. A key role is to make certain a framework is in place to enable appropriate management of all midwifery staff to ensure they are clinically and professionally developed and actively encouraged and supported to be efficient, effective, engaged and highly motivated.
Reporting to the Director of Midwifery, the Associate Director of Midwifery will develop, maintain, and provide assurance on clinical and operational governance systems and processes, specifically clinical risk management, CQC and Maternity Incentive Scheme (CNST) standards, clinical policy and procedure and clinical quality. The postholder will also be accountable for the development and maintenance of robust systems and processes to monitor and report on incident management, patient experience outcomes, complaint management including resolution and the dissemination of learning to all members of the wider maternity team.
Closing date: 11th January 2024
Interview date: 22nd January 2024
At UHDB around 9,000 babies are born across our two sites each year at Royal Derby Hospital (RDH) and Queens Hospital Burton (QHB). We provide antenatal and postnatal care for 11,500 women each year and, at RDH, we offer an alongside birth centre. We support women through low and high-risk care pathways, and some specialty pathways like diabetes and cardiology.
We have staff who are kind, caring and compassionate, and who want to deliver exceptional care together for every person who needs us - and that remains our aspiration.
This is an exciting new era on our maternity improvement journey, following a £5.4million investment into our services to strengthen our workforce, our technology and our processes, so that we can further improve what we do and deliver the best quality care to women and their babies. This is a great opportunity to join UHDB and make a real impact for the women and families we care for.
As a University Trust we value learning, teaching, and training so that we help you to be the best that you can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, and we always want to treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves.
An extensive induction package is offered to successful candidates joining our Maternity services to ensure you are well supported and have time to adjust to working within our teams.
We have:
• An inclusive and supportive culture - our Trust encourages staff to bring their whole selves to work and active Staff Networks to identify areas for improvement.
• Employee Support and wellbeing - we have a comprehensive Employee Health & Wellbeing Programme which includes a counselling service and a range of activities.
• Staff benefits - We have a range of staff benefits and schemes to support staff health, engagement, wellbeing and inclusion.
Details of UHDB sites
We have three wards across two sites, with a total of 88 beds for antenatal, postnatal and induction of labour.
At Royal Derby Hospital there are:
• 17 delivery rooms including one pool room and bereavement suite.
• Four bedded Midwife led birth centre.
• Four bedded Obstetric Enhanced Care area and a two bedded assessment bay
Queens Hospital Burton has seven delivery rooms including one pool room and one bereavement suite.
Samuel Johnson Community Hospital is currently does not provide intrapartum care but runs as a community midwifery hub.
Where we are now:
We are focused on making progress in achieving compliance with the immediate and essential actions from Ockenden recommendations, as well as implementing valuable learning from recent external reviews and reports into the service.
We want to:
• Be fully compliant against all national safety measures.
• Embed recommended changes from recent reviews of our service.
• Make sure we communicate well with families, so that every woman feels properly listened to and that we act on their feedback.
• Create the best possible environment at work for our teams to do their job.
• Do the things we have said we will do, including how we make sure we have learned and made changes when something has not gone well.
A lot of work is underway already, and we welcome applications from those who want to be a part of that journey.
If you would like to look around our Maternity Unit and find out more about our Midwifery posts, please contact us.
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This advert closes on Thursday 11 Jan 2024
