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Job requirements
Essential
28 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Qualifications
Registered Midwife
- Qualifications
Relevant post-registration qualification
- Qualifications
Degree Level Qualification or equivalent experience
- Qualifications
Master’s Degree in a healthcare related subject (or demonstrable evidence of working at Masters Level).
- Qualifications
Evidence of continuing professional development
- Other Requirements
Ability to travel across the West Midlands and occasionally beyond (i.e. hospital & face to face event sites)
- Analytical & Judgement Skills
Evidence of knowledge regarding clinical audit
- Analytical & Judgement Skills
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, engaging in highly complex communication situations where information is highly sensitive. Including having difficult conversations with patients, staff and regional stakeholders.
- Analytical & Judgement Skills
Ability to act as a champion for patients and their interests ensuring that patients are actively engaged and their voice is at the heart of the Networks activities. Recognising that this will involve challenging situations and conversations.
- Knowledge & Nature Of Experience
Working knowledge of operational midwifery leadership within fields including Complex caesarean sections or Placenta Accreta Spectrum
- Knowledge & Nature Of Experience
Sound knowledge and experience in managing the care of maternity surgical patients or PAS
- Knowledge & Nature Of Experience
Sound knowledge and experience managing the care of a critically ill patient requiring stabilisation or escalation of care
- Knowledge & Nature Of Experience
Knowledge and understanding of current professional midwifery policy and practice issues
- Knowledge & Nature Of Experience
Knowledge & experience of Safeguarding Adults & Children
- Knowledge & Nature Of Experience
Knowledge & Understanding of Infection Control
- Knowledge & Nature Of Experience
Proven change management skills
- Knowledge & Nature Of Experience
Knowledge, understanding and experience in Risk Management and Governance issues.
- Knowledge & Nature Of Experience
Knowledge & understanding of Patient/Public Involvement, management
- Knowledge & Nature Of Experience
Knowledge of NHS Directives and policy initiatives.
- Knowledge & Nature Of Experience
Understanding of Local and National policy drivers
- Personal Skills, Abilities and Attributes
Able to lead policy implementation
- Personal Skills, Abilities and Attributes
Completes/finishes work streams and tasks punctually
- Personal Skills, Abilities and Attributes
Committed to the BWH Trust Values
- Personal Skills, Abilities and Attributes
Committed to Inclusion and Diversity
- Professional, Managerial, Specialist Knowledge
Proactive, self-motivated, with the ability to motivate others.
- Professional, Managerial, Specialist Knowledge
Ability to work independently and demonstrate autonomy/decision making
- Professional, Managerial, Specialist Knowledge
Ability to manage own workload and clinically lead groups
- Professional, Managerial, Specialist Knowledge
Competence with Microsoft Office software including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications
Clinical Leadership or Management Qualification
- Qualifications
Teaching and Assessing Qualification
- Personal Skills, Abilities and Attributes
Proven Leadership skills
Job overview
Specialist Midwife - West Midlands Regional Placenta Accreta Spectrum
This exciting new role has been created to provide strategic and clinical leadership as the Specialist Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS) Midwife for the West Midlands Perinatal Network (WMPN). The role will focus on developing, strengthening, and coordinating the regional PAS network, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary PAS teams across the four regional referral centres to ensure equitable, high-quality care delivery.
The postholder will provide expert midwifery support to women diagnosed with PAS, ensuring a consistent, evidence-based, and holistic approach throughout the care pathway.
Given the well-recognised psychological morbidity associated with PAS, including increased rates of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and long-term physical complications, dedicated specialist midwifery leadership is essential.
The postholder will have a special interest in psychological support and incorporate this into the direct care provided to patients. The candidate will also be passionate in providing continuity of care for women with complex obstetric needs and be an advocate throughout their journey.
Provisional interview date Wednesday 04th November
Main duties of the job
- The postholder will provide direct clinical care to women with a suspected diagnosis of PAS across all four designated PAS centres.
- Acting as a patient advocate and champion, the postholder will ensure that the patient voice remains central to all clinical network activities, embedding person-centred principles within the networked model of care and associated clinical pathways.
- The postholder must demonstrate strategic thinking and the ability to plan, coordinate, and deliver a complex programme of work spanning multiple providers, commissioners, and patient groups.
- They will possess the professional credibility, expertise, and interpersonal skills necessary to unite diverse stakeholders, manage differing perspectives, and, where required, act as an impartial facilitator to reconcile competing priorities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Preoperative counselling and preparation.
- Postoperative psychosocial follow-up.
- Coordination of care across multiple providers and organisations
- Support for women and families experiencing trauma, anxiety, or bereavement.
- Ensuring adherence to national guidance and quality standards.
- Contributing to clinical governance, including supporting the development of regional standard operating procedures (SOPs) and patient information resources.
- Leading audit activity and supporting robust data collection.
- Supporting the establishment of a regional patient support group.
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 Specialist Midwife - PAS with Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, England. It is listed as a Midwife role. The advertised salary is £57528.00 to £64750.00. The contract type is 18 months (Fixed Term). The application deadline is 12 Oct 2026.
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