Lead Professional Midwifery Advocate

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic midwife to join Saint Mary's MCS as Band 7 Lead Professional Midwifery Advocate . The post holder will support the deployment of the Advocating for Education and Quality Improvement model (AEQUIP) across all sites of Saint Mary's MCS., The posts will include work alongside the Lead Midwife for Education, Matron for Maternity Workforce Team and Maternity Managers to support the deployment of the Advocating for Education and Quality Improvement model (AEQUIP). Including:

• Demonstrate an awareness of diverse ethnic, cultural, and spiritual backgrounds and needs of patients, members of the public and staff.
• Actively promote and maintain confidentiality whilst adhering to information governance guidelines.
• Ensure that accurate and contemporaneous records relating to the deployment of AEQUIP are maintained. Keep accurate records of PMA activity.
• Contribute to the content of and lead on the design of documents and teaching aids.
• Provide reports regarding AEQUIP deployment as requested and present in forums as required.
• Collate audit data to report on activity, compliance, and effectiveness.
Clinical support:
• Demonstrate clinical expertise and maintain competence in clinical skills.
• Establish and maintain professional and therapeutic relationships, and effective communication with patients, visitors, and work colleagues.
• Collaborate with and support teams to develop and improve services and deliver safe, compassionate care through regular RCS.
• Actively support the supervision, development and coaching of individual staff so that they may function effectively within their role and responsibilities.
  
  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.

£46,148 to £52,809 a year As per AfC terms and conditions.