Lead Professional Midwifery Advocate in Kettering

The Lead PMA will provide visible leadership and expert support within maternity services, ensuring the implementation of the A-EQUIP model, a continuous quality improvement framework designed to enhance care for women and babies, build midwives’ resilience, and support professional development and revalidation. We are looking for someone with creativity and innovation who can evidence how and what they have achieved to support service user and staff experience. Here at UHN we value our workforce and their wellbeing. As the lead PMA you will continuously drive and develop support services available to our staff to maximise their wellbeing at work and focus on retention of their valued experience. In return we will support flexible working, personal and professional development to achieve your ambitions for job satisfaction. At UHN we foster a culture of inclusivity, safety and continuous learning with a visible and accessible senior leadership team.

Main duties of the job:

• Be responsible for embedding the A-EQUIP model across the service so that quality improvement becomes part of everyday practice.
• Implement the four functions of A-EQUIP.
• Act as a senior advocate for midwives, promoting safe, high-quality, person-centered maternity care.
• Support midwives through Restorative Clinical Supervision (RCS) and facilitate annual PMA meetings for all midwives.
• Provide strategic input into maternity governance and quality assurance systems.
• Work closely with Heads of Midwifery, Consultant Midwives, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Work with service users, HEIs, and regional maternity networks.
• Promote compassionate care and staff wellbeing through structured support mechanisms.

Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close adverts once we have received sufficient applications. Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is on an exciting journey with all of our divisions committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN). As part of this collaborative approach, there may be a requirement for you to work across both the Kettering and Northampton hospital sites, depending on the needs of the service.

Our Excellence Values:

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Integrity
• Courage

UHN encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

Person specification:

Knowledge, Training and Experience:

• Registered midwife.
• Demonstrable well-developed leadership skills.
• Professional credibility with senior colleagues, and midwives.
• European computer driving licence (ECDL) or equivalent experience.
• A thorough understanding of The Code (NMC 2015).
• Has been appointed as a Professional Midwifery advocate.
• Educated to MSc level.
• Criteria that can be acquired once in employment or a means to employ the most suitable candidates.

Skills:

• Possession of well-developed negotiation, networking and communication skills.
• Knowledge of issues of confidentiality and demonstrate appropriateness in dealing with sensitive personal, patient and corporate information.
• Experience of working as part of a team and can demonstrate principles of effective team working.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.