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Job requirements
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Essential
18 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Values and behaviours
Patients First
- Values and behaviours
Always Improving
- Values and behaviours
Working Together
- Aptitudes and skills required
Ability to develop, lead and implement policy, guidelines and projects
- Aptitudes and skills required
Ability to have oversight of budgetary responsibility including authorising signatory
- Special requirements of the post
Car driver, with full driving licence, or ability to travel between hospital sites or for necessary patient visits
- Qualifications / training required
Registered midwife on NMC/HCPC register
- Qualifications / training required
Degree or equivalent level of experience
- Qualifications / training required
Working towards a master’s degree, or equivalent level of experience
- Qualifications / training required
Leadership I Management training
- Qualifications / training required
Specialist experience/training relating to safeguarding
- Previous or relevant experience necessary
Extensive experience working in the maternity healthcare setting in clinical
- Previous or relevant experience necessary
Extensive experience in a safeguarding role
- Previous or relevant experience necessary
Evidence of delivering formal and informal safeguarding training
- Previous or relevant experience necessary
Experience of change management within healthcare settings
- Previous or relevant experience necessary
Experience of dealing with emergency situations related to safeguarding to ensure patients are protected
- Previous or relevant experience necessary
Demonstrable knowledge, expertise, and experience in safeguarding, including national legislative frameworks and regulations
- Previous or relevant experience necessary
Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job overview
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Job Title: Named Midwife Safeguarding
Contract Type: Permanent
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity to join out team as we progress through a period of transformation and embedding a whole of life approach to safeguarding.
This is a key operational leadership role with strong input and engagement with the strategic leadership of the UHS safeguarding team, providing direction and support to midwifery services in managing safeguarding concerns and supporting outcomes for families.
Working with the head of safeguarding, named nurses and wider leadership teams you will support the development and embedding of best practice throughout maternity, and wider; design and deliver training to empower the workforce to deliver the best possible care, and undertake all areas of service assurance and improvement where necessary.
Managing a small team, you will have the opportunity to develop the service and team, embedding a sustainable career pathway for those who wish to make safeguarding their specialism.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
Providing clinical, professional, and managerial leadership for all staff groups un all areas of safeguarding, with a strong focus on maternity.
Taking a professional lead on all aspects of the Maternity Service contribution to safeguarding.
Assessing the fulfilment of statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding and taking action where those responsibilities are not met.
Contributing to the PREVENT agenda.
Leading on the design and delivery of training in relation to safeguarding within maternity.
Leading on the design and delivery of supervision models within maternity.
Supporting the divisional team to deliver its commitments to safeguarding within maternity.
Ensuring effective and collaborative working with our multi-agency partners.
Role modelling best practice in relation to safeguarding and challenging professionally where required to ensure that outcomes are the best that can be achieved.
For an overview of the position, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification document. This includes a detailed breakdown of the key responsibilities, role expectations, and the qualifications we are looking for.
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 Named Midwife Safeguarding with University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust in Southampton, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Midwife role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 - Per Annum, Pro Rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 09 Sep 2026.
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