Job summary
Employer heading
Public Health Midwife
Band 7
Liverpool Women’s delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and their families. Each year we deliver over 8,300 babies, carry out over 10,000 gynaecological procedures, and care for over 1,000 poorly and preterm newborns, making us the specialist provider of health services for women, babies and their families in Europe.
We have some of the leading experts in their field, and, after featuring on One Born Every Minute, Miracle Babies and Special Baby Unit, our teams are famous across the world for their professionalism, skill and compassion.
Liverpool Women’s Hospital clinical services are currently being reviewed by NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, following work done by our clinicians in presenting a powerful case for change in the Future Generations Strategy.
A useful information booklet is available about the proposed changes which can be downloaded from the Healthy Liverpool website facebook.com/healthylvpool. This booklet clearly states that ‘there is absolutely no threat to the services themselves – this is about making what we have even better and protecting services for the future’.
Liverpool Women’s has an excellent reputation and is a centre of excellence. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career for many years to come.
We invite you to review why Liverpool Women's Hospital is a great place to work: https://vimeo.com/556197652
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Midwife to undertake a 12 months fixed term post in the role of Public Health Lead Midwife, leading on the agenda within the maternity service to support mothers to be to improve their health, and therefore have an improved impact on the health of their unborn child.
The post holder will work in partnership with service users, the maternity team and local stakeholders to improve and protect health and well-being, reducing health inequalities and improving the health of the families.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to influence practice, policies and strategies both within the service, the trust and within the local health economy. This will require the post holder to develop in collaboration with other specialist midwives the most appropriate care pathways to have the most effective and efficient impact.
The post holder will work in partnership with service users, the multi-disciplinary team and local stakeholders to improve and protect health and wellbeing, and improve the health of families in the Liverpool City Region, contributing to improving the population's health and reducing health inequalities within maternity services. Key work will focus upon improving outcomes of women with modifiable risk factors such as smoking, obesity and breastfeeding, developing and implementing processes to secure a year on year increase in uptake of immunisation.
A significant part of the role will be to assist in the project management of the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation process.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool Women’s delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and their families. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career.
We value the contribution of individual talent and are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the local community. We will consider requests for flexible working on hiring.
Our core value is to ‘Be Kind’ and we have an ambition to ‘Be Brilliant’ with the best people, giving the safest care, to provide outstanding experiences.
The Trust is constantly innovating and evolving it’s services to provide the most cutting edge care possible. We have long-term aspirations for the future. https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/about-us/our-future/planning-for-future-generations/
We are committed to creating a greener Liverpool Women’s https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/media/4095/our-green-plan.pdf
https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/media/4121/recruitment-16pp-v5-current-version.pdf
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s on this page
Person specification
Skills, Knowledge & Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Effective Communicator
- Computer literate and ability to produce presentations and reports
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Ability to supervise and demonstrate potential to lead
- Organisational and negotiation skills
- Ability to work both on own initiative and within a team
- Flexibility
- Awareness of local and national policies and strategies, In Public Health, and Maternity
Desirable criteria
- Project Management Experience
Qualifications & Learning
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered Midwife
- Relevant Diploma/Degree or equivalent
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of Masters Level Study
- Leadership Qualification
- Teaching Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience in all areas of Maternity Services including substantial experience of Public Health Promotion
- Evidence of management/leadership skills and autonomous practice
- Evidence of leading or participating on audit programme
Desirable criteria
- Experience of analysing Public Health data to identify optional ranges and influence local decisions
- Experience of Leading QI Projects
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison Murray
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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