Professional Midwifery Advocate and Patient Experience Lead Midwife

Job overview

• The Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) Lead will provide strategic leadership for the Professional Midwifery Advocacy service and patient experience across Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, providing governance and assurance for the A-EQUIP model in line with NHS England guidance.

Main duties of the job

Lead a team of Professional Midwifery Advocates, promoting restorative practice, professional development, staff wellbeing, retention and the delivery of safe, high-quality maternity care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will:

• Support midwives to identify their own personal action for quality improvement.
• The post holder will 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 and clinical governance at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust.
• Apply their expertise in midwifery to assist the Director, Deputy Directors of Midwifery, and Consultant Midwives with the implementation and oversight of midwifery practice, ensuring strong clinical governance assurance systems are established for midwifery activities.
• Provide support to midwives in sharing of good practice learnt through the maternity services’ internal risk management processes with the aim of reducing the incidence of harm and obstetric litigation cases.
• Be involved in continuous monitoring and maintaining quality standards of clinical practice through a variety of ways for example audit.
• Act as a role model at all times and promote a high standard of safe and effective care which is based upon best evidence.
• Be accountable for monitoring and demonstrating the impact of the PMA and Listening Service through agreed metrics including uptake of restorative supervision, staff experience measures, retention, sickness absence, patient experience outcomes and quality improvement indicators

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.