Cultural Safety Midwife

Are you passionate about Equity, Diversity and Inclusion priorities and improving experience for those most at risk of health inequalities?

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton are seeking a cultural safety midwife who willwork to reduce inequality in maternity outcomes and experiences of Black, Asian and other women from an Ethnic Minority background and those from the most deprived decile, through engagement and co-production with other members of the maternity and multidisciplinary team, community groups and service users representing these populations.

In addition, the post holder will engage with the Trust EDI team and patient experience team to improve care for LGBTQ+ people and people living with disability and act as a resource for staff., This role will provide and promote high quality, individualised, safe, evidenced based maternity care and promote the importance of Cultural Safety in reducing inequality in maternity services, including liaising with senior leaders in all areas within the directorate.

The post holder will work with community groups and the multi-agency team to ensure that women from ethnic minority groups and those from the most deprived deciles have access to care appropriate to their needs. They will act as a role model by applying best practice in motivating staff to drive improvements and provide visible leadership in the workplace.

The cultural safety midwife will lead on the benchmarking of national evidence-based and expert panel reports relevant to cultural safety issues and the needs of LGBTQ+ people and people living with disability to ensure that maternity services provide best practice. They will implement, maintain and promote solutions and equipment for women with interpreting needs to improve safety and quality of experience for women with additional language needs.

At UHDB around 9,000 babies are born across our two sites each year at Royal Derby Hospital (RDH) and Queens Hospital Burton (QHB). We provide antenatal and postnatal care for 11,500 women each year and, at RDH, we offer an alongside birth centre. We support women through low and high-risk care pathways, and some specialty pathways like diabetes and cardiology.

We have staff who are kind, caring and compassionate, and who want to deliver exceptional care together for every person who needs us - and that remains our aspiration.

This is an exciting new era on our maternity improvement journey, following a £5.4million investment into our services to strengthen our workforce, our technology and our processes, so that we can further improve what we do and deliver the best quality care to women and their babies. This is a great opportunity to join UHDB and make a real impact for the women and families we care for.

As a University Trust we value learning, teaching, and training so that we help you to be the best that you can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, and we always want to treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves.

An extensive induction package is offered to successful candidates joining our Maternity services to ensure you are well supported and have time to adjust to working within our teams.