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South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

About

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT) provides the hospital services to South Warwickshire from four hospitals:

Warwick Hospital
Leamington Spa Hospital
Stratford Hospital
Ellen Badger Hospital

We also deliver out-of-hospital community services to the whole of Warwickshire and beyond serving a population of more than half a million from various clinics. This includes our Community Teams in North Warwickshire.

What is a Foundation Trust?

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 March 2010. A foundation trust status gives us greater freedom to manage our own affairs, and makes us more directly accountable to local people through our Members, who are drawn from the local population and staff.

We are managed by a Board of Directors and the Trust is overseen by our Council of Governors. Find out more about our organisational structure and meetings and papers.

We continue to be part of the NHS and treat patients in accordance with core NHS principles – healthcare that is provided according to clinical need, not ability to pay, that it is free at the point of delivery, and that it meets the needs of everyone.

Our Members actively influence the progress of the Trust and help us to be genuinely patient-centred in every aspect. Find out about becoming a Member.

Contact

Address: South Warwickshire Hospital; Lakin Road; Warwick; Warwickshire; CV34 5BW
Contact Number: 01926 495321

Find out more

Jobs Website

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Ref: 203-FH425 Vacancy ID: 4991148

Lead Midwife for Public Health

Closed for applications on: 14-Feb-2023 00:01

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 14-Feb-2023 00:01

Location

Site: Warwick Hospital
Address: Lakin Road
Town: Warwick
Postcode: Cv34 5BW
Major / Minor Region: Warwickshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Fixed term: 4 months
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £41,659 - £47,672 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 7)

Specialty

Main area: Midwifery

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top performing organisations within the NHS. Our staff think this is a great place to work and we hope you will agree. We have recently been rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following our most recent inspection.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the whole county. This includes our Community Teams in North Warwickshire.

We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Over 5300 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don’t need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare.

The first thing you will notice about us is how we take our values seriously. We believe that our values underpin everything we do. If you are interested in a role with us you need to make sure our values match your own.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide inclusive, safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Probationary Period

All new staff to the Trust will be subject to a standard 6 month probationary period, the details of which will duly follow in your contract of employment.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued and respected and that our organisation is representative of all members of society. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – we value our employees, job applicants, students, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our values of being Inclusive, Safe, Effective, Compassionate and Trusted.

Agile and Flexible Working

All our staff will have a work base. However the Trust operates as an Agile Working Team therefore staff may be working from home on a regular basis as required by the service. However, occasionally travel around Warwickshire and into your base will be required so access to your own transport would be helpful.

The Trust also welcome staff to work flexibly and we would welcome the conversation at interview regarding flexible working.

Staff Benefits

The Trust offer a wide range of additional benefits to staff. Anyone who joins us on a substantive basis can assess things such as the Lease Car Scheme, Electronics Scheme, Discounted Leisure and Travel, Cycle to work scheme amongst many others available.

Car Parking

The Trust have recently completed the construction of a multi-storey car park at our Warwick Hospital site. This ensures all new staff joining the Trust will have access to car parking facilities without the need to go on a waiting list. The Trust have also been able to freeze car parking charges.

To keep up to date on our latest recruitment activity follow us on twitter @swftrecruit or look us up on Facebook (Recruitment - South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Communicate effectively with clinical, operational, administration and corporate staff via email, telephone and face to face contact in order to deliver the requirements of the role.

The Public Health Project Midwife will have experience that will enable them to:

Work closely with public health stakeholders within Warwickshire and Coventry Local Maternity System to implement the maternity public health strategy.

Support mothers/parents to be active participants in identifying their health needs and work in partnership with mothers/parents to improve both their health and the health of their unborn child.

Asset based approach to be adopted by maternity services co-ordinating care with Health visitors and Family Centre staff.

Lead on the public health strategies such as smoking and weight management and work closely with others to support public health priorities.

Work closely with other specialist midwives to ensure a co-ordinated approach across public health priority areas; Mental Health, Parent Education, Breastfeeding etc.

Link directly with the smoking perception midwives to analyse inputs and outputs of service.

Through training support staff to lead conversations with mums to be around weight management during pregnancy and refer to the Fitter Futures programme.

Lead on development and every day management of this project including: staff training, policy development and adherence, data collection, quality and audit.

The post holder will fulfil the role of an integrated midwife within the Maternity Service, undertaking one shift per month in clinical practice.

The post holder will ensure the relevant Midwifery Guidelines and clinical pathways are up to date and staff are trained to know about smoking, obesity and trained to support conversations on public health priorities.

The Midwife will also fulfil the role of an integrated midwife within the South Warwickshire NHS Trust Maternity Service and support the Midwifery strategy in conjunction with the Head / Deputy Head of Midwifery.

Measurable Result Areas

Key work will focus upon improving outcomes of women with modifiable risk factors such as obesity, smoking, and developing and implementing processes to secure a year on year increase in uptake of immunizations and breastfeeding.

Be able to demonstrate the link with Health visiting with regards to the Video interactive guidance (VIG) and perinatal mental health pathways and how this training is disseminated to maternity staff.

Represent South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust at local, regional and national level when appropriate, influencing service development in relation to public health.

The post holder will work closely with the Senior Midwifery Team to further develop related pathways and guidelines to assure appropriate and responsive care.

To undertake training sessions on Public Health.

Submit monthly updates to the Head of Midwifery through the unit meetings.

Liaise with the Smoking Cessation Nurse SWFT.

Liaise with SWFT training Leads, Lead Nurses, Head of Midwifery, and Deputy Head of Midwifery, Lead Midwives and Ward managers regarding training strategies.

Ensure records are maintained in accordance with NMC guidelines.

To work actively to improve outcomes and meet agreed targets.

Maintain confidentiality.

Responsible for providing a good learning environment and culture for student midwives and other health professionals.

Communications and Working Relationships

Demonstrate clear, effective extended communication skills with colleagues and other agencies; to ensure effective implementation of objectives.

Provide timely accurate project progress reports to all key stake holders.

Initiate the procedure for any complaints, accidents and incidents which occur whilst on duty and report these to the senior midwife.

Be aware of and maintain professional standards of conduct as per the NMC Rules and Codes.

Be able to take action if others do not meet the required standards.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Sometimes we get a lot of applications for our roles. On those occasions we might close the job early. If you don’t want to miss out we recommend submitting your application as early as possible.

The Trust use an Applicant Management System called TRAC which helps us manage the recruitment process. All communications regarding your application will come via TRAC (even if you applied via NHS Jobs).

Please check your TRAC account regularly and ensure your email is set up to accept messages so they don't go into your junk/spam folder.

We aim to shortlist all vacancies within 2 days of the vacancy closing, we will get back to all candidates ASAP.

Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address.

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer who is committed to Equality and Diversity and does not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the grounds of any protected characteristic as defined by the Equality Act 2010.

All South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust sites are smoke free. We feel it’s a great way to help our patients, visitors and staff stay healthy.

The Trust is part of a ‘Foundation Group’ through a strategic alliance with Wye Valley NHS Trust, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. This partnership is great for the sustainability of all four organisations and allows us to share learning and maximise opportunities to ensure the delivery of high quality health and care services for our local populations.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.