Consultant Midwife Quality Improvement & Population Health

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, visionary Consultant Midwife to join our team at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, part time to cover a secondment. The role of the consultant midwife is to provide expert clinical care and leadership within the maternity service. By working in collaboration with the Director of Midwifery, Obstetric Unit Heads of Midwifery, Group Service Director ,Clinical Director and wider perinatal senior team, the Consultant Midwife will ensure there is effective leadership, education and training, practice and service development and research/evaluation within the maternity service. They will be an expert, autonomous practitioner of midwifery, a role model for midwives, a lead for midwifery research and practice development and a reference for multi-professional colleagues within the Health Board The Consultant Midwife will function as an expert midwifery advisor internally and externally. This will include acting as an ambassador for the Health Board's maternity and neonatal services, raising the profile of Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board as a maternity and neonatal centre of excellence internally and nationally as required by the Director of Midwifery or Executive Nurse Director., The Consultant Midwife will work in conjunction with the Director of Midwifery and local Heads of Midwifery to lead the maternity transformation programme regarding professional issues to support the service on its journey of continuous improvement., The Consultant Midwife will work with the Care Group Directors, Heads of Midwifery, and the wider multi-disciplinary team, providing strategic midwifery leadership which reflects and supports current and future needs of the maternity service through improving our population health & tackling inequalities. Involved in developing and maintaining collaborative working and effective communication within key stakeholder to provide evidence-based positive experience for women, pregnant and birthing people and their families.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.