Maternity Site Safety Midwife

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our established senior team.

Supporting the Labour Ward Coordinators on the night shifts to ensure safety across the unit.

The post holder will be a clearly identifiable senior clinical member of the Midwifery team. They will have significant clinical experience, provide sound clinical expertise to ensure delivery of high quality, safe, and compassionate evidence based care. They will work closely with others to ensure that care delivery takes place in a suitable and safe environment to support the physical and psychological wellbeing of staff, women, birthing people and families.

• Participate in Senior Midwife unit on call rota / bleep holder on nights.
• To ensure that working conditions are safe in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act. Assist with departmental risk assessment, COSHH and other health and safety issues and ensure safe practice with regard to manual handling, safer sharps, infection prevention and control etc.
• Support the management of vulnerable adults, young people and children; safeguarding and deprivation of liberty issues, in consultation with the wider MDT.
• To facilitate “hot” debrief sessions for staff where necessary as a supportive function following a clinical incident.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.

• To act as a "specialist adviser" on issues relating to midwifery care across all clinical areas.
• To be able to cover the role of Labour Ward Coordinator at short notice where required and to maintain those skills necessary to do so.
• Participate in Senior Midwife unit on call rota / bleep holder on night shifts.
• In collaboration with the Labour Ward Coordinator, ensure compliance and provide support with daily checking of emergency equipment in the Intrapartum area to ensure a high standard of compliance and preparedness.
• Support and promote equality, diversity and the rights of women, birthing people, the public and colleagues within the health care environment.
• Coordinate Born Before Arrival (BBA) calls and in utero transfer requests in partnership with the wider MDT.
• To facilitate “hot” debrief sessions for staff where necessary as a supportive function following a clinical incident.

Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.