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Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Maternal Medicine Lead Midwife to join our dynamic and friendly team here at East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust.

 The primary responsibility of the Maternal Medicine Lead Midwife is to work as part of the specialist team, offering expert advice and high-quality care to women with existing, complex medical conditions and/or comorbidities. This includes undertaking a holistic assessment of each woman’s individual’s needs in partnership with the woman and planning a programme of care to meet these safely and effectively. 

You  will lead on the development, implementation and evaluation of relative care pathways and ensure they are consistently and sustainably meeting the needs of women and families and are achieving high quality safe care provision in accordance with both local and National recommendations.

This is cross site post.

Main duties of the job

·     Lead the maternal medicine service in collaboration with relevant members of the wider MDT

·     Contribute to the prenatal counselling clinics as required in collaboration with medical and obstetric colleagues.

·     To take the lead in collaborative efforts for the maternal medicine service at ENHT and offer support while delivering clinical excellence to ensure the efficient management of service users with complex needs.

·     Undertake the full role of the midwife including advanced decision-making, using evidence-based practice.

·     Work collaboratively within the MDT to provide high-level, holistic midwifery care that impacts positively upon the woman’s maternity journey. 

·     Support both women and staff throughout the maternity journey to ensure that the mother and baby receive high quality safe care relevant to their individual needs and that any birth/postnatal plans are followed up, including contraception provision.

·     Ensure that personalised care plans are instigated in partnership with the woman, evaluated, and amended appropriately throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods.

Working for our organisation

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes. 

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff. 

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. 

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. 

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.   

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients. 

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.   

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