Lead Professional Midwife or Lead Professional Nurse Advocate, Band 7

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for either a Professional Midwifery or Professional Nurse Advocate to lead on the delivery, strategy and planning of the Professional Advocate role across the Women & Children’s Division which covers Midwifery, Neonatal, Gynaecology and Children’s services. It provides the post holder the opportunity to enhance and support the wellbeing of our staff with the aim to support and improve retention, job satisfaction and unit culture, but also have an impact on clinical outcomes and patient safety.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the continuous improvement process of the “A-EQUIP” model across the Midwifery and Nursing services to ensure it becomes an intrinsic part of everyone’s job, every day in all parts of the system (NHS England 2016).

You should be a visible role model with the ability to develop, deliver, and embed Restorative Clinical Supervision (RCS) in collaboration with other Professional Midwifery/Nursing Advocates and clinical teams in our service.

To support midwives and nurses to identify their own personal action for quality improvement if required. Use their understanding of personal and professional resilience and support others to develop this attribute.

Ensure that there is a strong interface between the PMA/PNA and Clinical Governance across the division

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will provide leadership to the Divisional Professional Advocates, developing a strategy and effective communication to ensure  the team are kept informed of current issues so that the A-EQUIP model is implemented.

You will provide support to implement quality improvement initiatives to improve the safety and quality of patient care and staff experience leading to improved engagement and retention.

Utilise expert knowledge and leadership qualities to support the Heads of service lines in implementing and monitoring practice, ensuring that there are robust clinical governance assurance systems in place.

You will demonstrate a caring and compassionate leadership style to support the wider team managing complex and sensitive situations.

Please see the job description for a more detailed description of this role.