Lead Professional Midwifery Advocate

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated midwife to join and lead the Professional Midwifery Advocate team

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Professional Midwifery Advocate to take on a leadership role and help shape how this service is provided. As the Lead PMA your main focus will be to work collaboratively with colleagues to improve the quality of care for women/birthing people and their babies; while also supporting midwives.

You will be trained to use and embed the A.EQUIP model within our maternity service. As the Lead PMA you will play a crucial role in promoting safe, high-quality care by promoting quality improvement, facilitating learning, improve staff wellbeing through the provision of restorative supervision and being an advocate for the rights and choices for women/birthing people in our care. This post is based at University Hospital Lewisham but requires cross site working.

The role requires you to have:

• Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) qualification and experience in delivery restorative supervision
• A strong background in midwifery leadership and service development
• Excellent communication, coaching and influencing skills
• Experience in facilitating birth reflection / options clinic
• A commitment to enhancing midwifery practice and supporting workforce wellbeing.

Please Note this post may close early.

Main duties of the job

• You will be required to lead and coordinate the sessional PMA team to deliver effective clinical restorative supervision

You will support midwives in their professional growth, resilience and wellbeing.

Working collaboratively with the wider maternity leadership team with the focus to enhance the way maternity services are provided is a key focus for this role.

Promoting a culture of safety, learning, cultural humility and continuous learning are the cornerstones upon which the delivery of this role’s objectives are based while ensuring compliance with national maternity standards and best practices.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Lead Professional Midwifery Advocate is a fundamental leadership and advocacy role designed to deploy the A-EQUIP model. This supports staff through a continuous improvement process that builds upon personal and professional resilience, enhances quality of care for women and supports preparedness for midwives in appraisal and professional revalidation.

The ultimate aim is that this continuous improvement process of the “A-EQUIP” model will become an intrinsic part of everyone’s job, every day in all parts of the system (NHS England 2016).

The post holder will be employed by Lewisham and Greenwich Trust, based in the maternity departments; it is a cross-site role.

Responsibilities  a)    The post holder will take the lead in embedding the elements of the A-EQUIP model, utilising the guidance issued by NHS England. A summary of this model is at the end of this document.

b)    Take the lead in coordinating the availability of the listening clinic/birth reflections service for women and birthing people and their families.

c)    Manage midwifery and support staff and the clinical area, as the MOC, to help ensure the smooth running of the service.

d)    The post holder will be part of the senior midwifery team