Birth Matters Specialist Midwife (Band 7)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior midwife to lead on the continued implementation of the Birth Matters Service at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust., The post holder will act as a role model demonstrating clinical leadership and midwifery expertise and promote exceptional team working. The post holder will lead and facilitate the offer of trauma informed reflective discussions and support women in informed decision making. The post holder will support and enhance women and birthing peoples' experience
through implementing evidence-based care practices and recommendations from the national maternity agenda.
The post holder will support the midwifery management team in responding to complaints and PALS as directed by the Head of Midwifery and Maternity Matrons.
This role will be essential in ensuring communication with the multidisciplinary team is maintained by taking an active role in plans of care and outcome-based evaluation and learning is shared with all staff., · Lead and facilitate facilitate the offer of trauma informed reflective discussions and support women in informed decision making through the provision of a birth reflections service.
Take responsibility in the triage of referrals into the service from other health professionals and prioritise appointments
Act as an advocate for the woman and birthing person. Communicate, represent and negotiate their values, wishes and informed decisions in relation to their care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary tea
Ensure the individual needs of women and birthing people in relation to information and safeguarding, overall physical and mental health are appropriately identified and they are signposted and/or referred to an additional or alternative service or healthcare professional.
Full details can be found in the attached job description and person specification
We are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities.
NOTE: This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received.
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We are looking for a highly motivated, autonomous individual to lead on the continual quality improvement required to establish this service working collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to provide personalised care for our families

At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people's age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you'll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future - a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust., Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
+ Cycle to Work
+ Travel Scheme
+ Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
+ Onsite Nursery
+ Buying and Selling Annual Leave
+ Car Leasing
+ Employee Assistance Programme
+ Employee Health and Wellbeing
+ Extensive Reward Scheme
+ Counselling Service
+ Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
+ Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
+ Committed to Quality of Care
+ Compassion
+ Working together for patients
+ Improving Lives
+ Everyone Counts
+ Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.