Consultant Midwife

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an inspirational and compassionate Consultant Midwife to join our team, working across maternity services to support the professional midwifery agenda to achieve consistency of practice and high standards of care for all women and birthing people.

The postholder will support the current Consultant Midwife and work closely with senior leaders within our maternity service, other maternity teams and key stakeholders to develop and support a maternity service that is focused on quality, safety, personalised care and experience. You will be passionate about strong, visible and compassionate leadership and be willing to lead and facilitate change through clinical practice, research, audit, education and training.

Main duties of the job

Clinical expert in field of midwifery and fulfil the 4 domains of Midwife Consultant:

- Advanced & expert level practice within midwifery

- Leadership & consultancy

- Development & provision of education and training

- Service development, evaluation, research and audit.

Work across SMH service, support GMEC Local Maternity & Neonatal System. Provide Leadership, expert practice & advanced knowledge, integrating research evidence into practice and contributing/leading research in clinical field. Minimum of 50% of portfolio in direct autonomous clinical practice and leadership.

Monitor and improve standards through: supervision of practice, clinical audit, identifying research, disseminating findings and promoting translation into practice, teaching and supporting colleagues, provision of skilled leadership. Contribute to safeguarding & clinical effectiveness in service by participating in audit and research in the MDT in specialist field. Practice across the health economy as required by client group.

Be involved with national/international research contributing to networks, supporting development of centres of excellence in midwifery.

Maintain and develop local/national profile as Consultant Midwife by being leader in further developing services for women.

Job plan will be agreed to meet service needs, reviewed annually or more as required.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.