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Job requirements
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Essential
5 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Advanced IT skills include data analysis and report writing. • Evidence of keeping self-up to date with developments in maternity services • Good interpersonal skills • Highly developed communication, influence, negotiating skills and sharing of information. • Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines. • Excellent organisational and time management skills • Ability to be an innovative and effective decision-maker. • Demonstrate ability to assess, diagnose, interpret investigations and develop a clinical management plan for complex patients. • Ability to deal with sensitive/challenging/complex and stressful situations. • Skills in presenting at conferences/webinars. • Drive for improvement with the proven ability to set and meet ambitious targets and monitor against targets.
- Knowledge
A knowledgeable clinician with the ability to apply evidence-based practice. • Knowledge of clinical governance • Demonstrable theoretical and practical knowledge of pregnancy and their complications • Knowledge of Obstetric and maternity interventions / treatments /complications • Sound knowledge of national and local NHS • agenda/policy/guidance/ integrated care boards and implications
- Experience
Senior clinical Midwifery experience at Band 7 or above. • Significant clinical experience in relevant field. • Experience in research and audit • Proven record in change management and service development. • Evidence of journal/ book publication/ webinar/oral/poster presentations/ project work • Evidence of leading teams, staff development and teaching • Demonstrate ability to embed evidence-based practice. • Experience in collaborative working with a diverse range of internal/external stakeholders. • Development of Obstetric and midwifery protocols / pathways • Experience of case load management
- Qualifications
Current UK healthcare professional Midwifery registration • MSc in ACP/Advance Practice or Healthcare or HEE/NHSE Advance Practice digital badge • Evidence of continuous professional development • Teaching and assessing qualification/equivalent. • Independent Prescriber (annotated on professional register)
- Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s values. (As detailed in UHCW’s Values in Action document below) • Applicants applying for job roles with managerial responsibility will be required to demonstrate evidence of promoting equal opportunities through work experience
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
Demonstrate resourcefulness. • Delegated Consent training
- Experience
Successful completion of speciality/service specific capabilities / competencies • Experience of patient/public involvement. • Experience of successful resource and budget management. • Experience of staff management -recruitment, selection, sickness
- Qualifications
PhD or working towards • Specialist relevant qualification • ALS provider • Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training
Job overview
The maternity department at UHCW care for around 6,000 pregnant patients a year and is a busy tertiary unit with level 3 neonatal services.
The maternity triage department sees approximately 1100maternity patient each month.
An exciting new opportunity is available to join our maternity team of ACP Midwives. UHCW Maternity have a small team of ACP Midwives which we are looking to increase. The role is for a Maternity triage ACP Midwife to join the team to ensure a 7 day service of timely clinical reviews for maternity patients attending the area.
The ACP Midwives for Maternity triage will play an instrumental role in the implementation of the NHSE national maternity triage specification document and recommendations.
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) is required to be an experienced registered midwife who has completed an MSc in Advanced clinical practice, who will exercise autonomy and decision making in a context of complexity, uncertainty and varying levels of risk, holding accountability for decisions made. The ACP will be able to manage clinical care in partnership with individuals, families and carers responding to differences in cultures, demographics and populations.
They will utilise critical analysis and synthesis in dealing with complex problems across the maternity service, enabling innovative solutions to enhance experience and improve outcomes for maternity patients.
Main duties of the job
The ACP Midwife for maternity triage will act autonomously to assess, prioritise and provide expert clinical midwifery care which contributes to the patients’ treatment plan to ensure that optimum physical, psychological, and social care needs are met and ensures quality care. They will undertake an initial assessment to determine differential diagnosis, utilising advanced critical thinking and decision-making skills, deciding when necessary to refer to senior clinical colleagues. The successful postholder will autonomously assess, diagnose, and have the legal authority to independently prescribe. As an independent prescriber, the ACP will be responsible and accountable for the assessment of patients with midwifery and obstetric complications and for clinical management decisions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The ACP Midwife will support the multidisciplinary team within obstetrics and the wider physicians within UHCW as required to review patients attending the department. They will encompass the 4 pillars of advanced practice. The detailed job description will give the applicants further details into the main topics of Clinical, communication, Leadership and management, and Education. In addition the ACP midwife will partake in research, audit and service development within the maternity triage department.
The ACP will be an independent prescriber, having completed a recognised independent prescribing qualification, including annotation with their professional regulatory body and works within their scope of practice and relevant legislative authority.
For further details of the role please see the attached job description.
Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.
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.
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This advert is for Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Maternity Triage with University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in Coventry, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Advanced clinical practitioner role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 24 Sep 2026.
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