The Consultant Midwife will use midwifery expertise to promote clinical pathways in maternity care leading midwifery practice within all areas of maternity services.
The role will be to lead and support midwives to realise their full potential as autonomous practitioners placing women and their families at the centre of care planning.
The post holder will act as an innovator, motivator, key change agent and role model, with a high level of autonomy in order to support and influence the clinical pathways within the midwifery services including implementation of national initiatives, service reconfiguration and appropriate models of care.
The post holder will work closely with the Heads of Midwifery, Group Director of Midwifery, Consultant Midwives, Midwifery Matrons, Obstetric, Anaesthetic and Neonatal Teams to develop a Maternity Service that is responsive to the needs of women and its staff.
The post holder will contribute to the educational commitment in ensuring midwifery clinical pathways and practices are enveloped in all staff training programmes.
This Will Be Achieved By
- Leading service redesign empowering midwives to meet the needs of the local population in line with key objectives outlined the Better Birth Strategy and local and national policy documents.
- The development of midwifery practice within all areas of the maternity service.
- Actively promoting and developing clinical pathways for high risk and low risk care that promote normal birth for mothers.
- Providing expert clinical advice to all medical and midwifery staff to ensure best practice standards are met that will improve outcomes for women and influence a reduction in unnecessary interventions and LSCS Births.
- Making a significant contribution to the clinical governance agenda and collation of evidence for the maternity incentive scheme (CNST) by ensuring that practice is evidence based and through the development of staff competence at all levels.
- Contribute to the research and audit agenda ensuring a multidisciplinary approach at all times
- To represent the directorate at external networks and report progress to the Directorate
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tanana Clarke Job title: Associate Director of Midwifery & Gynaecology Email address: tanana.clarke@nhs.net Telephone number: 02088874615
