Clinical Effectiveness Midwife in Northampton

To ensure guidelines are developed, implemented and monitored to reflect evidence based and best practice. To work alongside the Maternity Services Audit Lead to develop and implement Directorate wide audit processes that will effectively monitor clinical practice to ensure continuous improvement, compliance and effectiveness.

To provide and lead specialist midwifery practice in the development and co-ordination of guideline and clinical pathway development to support safe, effective high-quality maternity care. To facilitate the implementation of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), external publications and external assessments programmes this will include the associated audit programmes.

To develop and implement processes to effectively monitor clinical practice via care pathways, ensuring continuous improvement, compliance and effectiveness. To facilitate, support and coordinate a rolling programme of clinical audit projects, evidence-based practice and audit based on maternity priorities and specialty specific requirements.

Use national benchmarking data ie CMACE, RCOG, NICE to ensure that policies and guidelines are reviewed and updated to reflect best practice. Utilise information from incidents, complaints and claims to ensure procedural documents are reviewed and updated as appropriate.

Main duties of the job

• Promote collaborative working partnerships and effective communication between all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Ensure professional and clinical standards are maintained and developed in response to new evidence.
• Act as a supportive professional role model for midwifery, providing midwifery care in accordance with the NMC Code.
• To communicate and liaise with staff groups at all levels on all aspects of the audit cycle, ensuring that all necessary information is correctly gathered and presented in a comprehensible and timely manner.
• To liaise with all staff groups to ensure clinical audit evidence requirements for CQC and external assessments are provided in a timely manner.
• To provide advice and guidance to staff on general clinical audit queries and also ad hoc clinical audit training when required.

Job responsibilities

• Demonstrate positive leadership and motivational skills in the support of staff as well as current knowledge of midwifery and contemporary maternity care.
• Contribute to a departmental culture which promotes an open and honest approach to professional decision making and problem solving.
• Lead specific designated projects.
• Promote and maintain organisational and professional standards, ensuring that Trust and Directorate Policies and Guidelines are available, implemented and followed.
• Demonstrate and promote excellent interpersonal skills, written, verbal and nonverbal communication styles.
• Influence and nurture positive attitudes and behaviours within the teams and wider multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge and effective use of the escalation policy.

UHN welcomes applications from people from all protected groups and is committed to creating an inclusive working environment.

Person Specification

• Education, Training and Qualifications

• Registered Midwife
• Degree in higher education or equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Teaching and assessing in clinical practice
• Masters degree or working toward

• Knowledge and Experience

• Broad range of midwifery experience promoting normal birth
• Experience in discussing sensitive issues appropriately
• Experience of implementing change
• Experience of teaching within clinical areas
• Experience of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency collaboration
• Contemporary knowledge of strategic nursing and midwifery practice issues in and acute and community setting
• Knowledge of issues associated with social exclusion and health inequalities
• Knowledge of internal and external reviews relevant to maternity and the Governance Assurance Framework
• Experience of working collaboratively with Midwifery Education Systems
• Member of a working party/steering group

• Skills

• Convening and chairing a meeting
• IT Skills
• Effective interpersonal skills and an ability to challenge appropriately
• Planning & organisational skills
• Physical skills
• Capable of working autonomously with a minimum of direct supervision
• Analytical skills

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum / pro rata