Deputy Named Midwife for Safeguarding inGillingham inGillingham PUBLISHED
TUE 26 NOV 2024
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The Medway NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Deputy Named Midwife for Safeguarding within the Women & Children's Service Care Group in Gillingham. This full-time position, Band 6, pays between £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata.
The role involves supporting the Named Midwife for Safeguarding in managing and coordinating safeguarding activities within maternity services. The post holder will provide expert advice, ensuring compliance with statutory safeguarding requirements and promoting best practices in the care of vulnerable women and families.
Key responsibilities include:
- Acting as a deputy to the Named Midwife, overseeing safeguarding strategies and policies.
- Collaborating with maternity staff to enhance outcomes for children and young people.
- Participating in education and training related to safeguarding for colleagues and students.
- Maintaining up-to-date safeguarding knowledge and NMC registration.
- Engaging in various safeguarding meetings, conducting research, and handling police notifications.
- Assisting in the implementation of risk assessments for domestic abuse victims and chairing safeguarding meetings when necessary.
The role requires strong leadership, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to maintaining confidentiality and professional development. The post holder will also support the Named Midwife during periods of absence.
Deputy Named Midwife for Safeguarding
Women, Children and Young People
Care Group: Women & Children's Service
Band: 6
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata
The post holder will be a highly visible and family focused support to the Named Midwife for Safeguarding. The post holder will develop a sound understanding of issues relating to safeguarding within Maternity and seek to gain expert knowledge around the statutory requirements within the Law.
They will support the Named Midwife to manage and coordinates the safeguarding activities of midwives and other members of the multidisciplinary team in all areas of the maternity services, providing support and expert clinical advice.
The post holder will act as support and deputy to the Named Midwife within the Trust for Safeguarding Children, working collaboratively to ensure delivery of all relevant safeguarding children strategies and policies.
To act as operational support for the Named Midwife, supporting service users and staff in both the hospital and community setting.
Work with all maternity staff to equip them to care for vulnerable women and families and drive improvements in outcomes for the safety and wellbeing of babies, children and young people.
The post holder will provide midwifery expertise and expert knowledge in safeguarding and child protection throughout the pregnancy pathway, ensuring safe, effective, evidence-based clinical practice in accordance with Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023), National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance and the Trusts guidelines and policies.
The post holder will actively participate in the education, training and dissemination of professional and clinical knowledge relating to Safeguarding to colleagues, student midwives and other members of the multi-disciplinary team acting as an effective role model.
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Be responsible for maintaining a valid, up to date NMC registration and professional profile.
Provide effective leadership within safeguarding practices for the maternity service.
Provide individual support to all staff members within the maternity services department and assist in the prevention, identification, assessment and management of safeguarding children through a coordinated approach.
Promote the upholding of the CQC Safeguarding standards.
Maintain confidentiality at all times relating to patients, staff and the Trust unless in the wider public interest as per Working Together 2023.
To complete weekly MARAC (Multi-agency risk assessment conference) research.
To collate and distribute HUB referrals and feedback for both Medway and Swale Safeguarding HUBs, and to Chair these meetings in the absence of the Named Midwife for Safeguarding.
To review and action notifications received from maternity by the police service.
To attend safeguarding meetings such as Strategy and professionals meetings, Initial and Review Child Protection conferences and Child In Need and Core group meetings, in addition to pre-birth and pre discharge planning meetings.
To attend represent maternity safeguarding in internal and external meetings in the absence of the named midwife for safeguarding.
To support the Named Midwife for Safeguarding by collating data of safeguarding activity to support with audit and reporting.
To participate and provide maternity safeguarding training and education.
To be visible in the unit and in community as a safeguarding specialist to offer support and guidance with safeguarding practices, this can be in person or virtually.
To keep their own skills and knowledge up to date by attending regular safeguarding training.
To cover the Named Midwife for Safeguarding in periods of leave, sickness/absence to have oversight of safeguarding practices within maternity.
Assist and progress the implementation of risk assessment and safety planning for victims of domestic abuse.
Maintain responsibility for own professional development on a continual basis both academically, professionally and clinically.
Access support and child protection supervision due to the highly emotional/distressing aspect of the role.
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