Midwifery ACP for DAU & Triage

If you're looking to work in an award winning, well-supported, friendly, dynamic, culturally astute and inclusive environment that puts women / birthing people at the centre of a high standard of care, come and join us. Our latest CQC report that has just been published rates us as good, maintaining our good rating since 2017 and has now awarded us outstanding for leadership. Have you got extensive post registration experience? Do you feel ready for a new challenge? This is an exciting opportunity for a Midwife to develop personally and professionally. The successfully candidate will provide clinical leadership to midwifery staffing in the Maternity Triage and Day Assessment unit setting. You will fulfil this varied role within the unit using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. If you are an experienced midwife who is capable of planning and managing complete episodes of care, in line with the evidence based practice, then this could be a great opportunity for you. This is a full time role that may require some weekend and out of hours working and will be based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich site. We are very proud of the Maternity Services that we provide across our sites and are looking for an influential midwife to Lead, support and encourage our staff in DAU & Triage, Your main duties will involve but not be limited to:

• Responsibility for the rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of women/birthing people within the Maternity Triage and Day Assessment unit using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
• Planning and managing complete episodes of care, working in collaboration with the midwives, junior doctors, and consultants, delegating and referring as appropriate, to ensure timely, effective management and optimise health outcomes, in line with the evidence base and nationally recognised best practice.
• Playing a key operational role and maintain a pro-active approach to managing and leading clinical pathways and flow.
• Working closely with a multi-professional team.
• Promoting and implementing service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust.
Please see JD for Full details. This post is not suitable for newly qualified midwives or international midwives who have just completed their OSCE.Working for our organisation Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations: 1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development 2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability 3. Improving the experience of staff with disability 4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development 5. Making equalities mainstream,
• To be responsible for the rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of women/birthing people within the Maternity Triage and Day Assessment unit using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
• To provide clinical leadership to midwifery staffing in the Maternity Triage and Day Assessment unit setting.
• To plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in collaboration with the midwives, junior doctors, and consultants, delegating and referring as appropriate, to ensure timely, effective management and optimise health outcomes, in line with the evidence base and nationally recognised best practice.
• To play a key operational role and maintain a pro-active approach to managing and leading clinical pathways and flow.
• Working closely with a multi-professional team.
• To promote and implement service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust.
• To act as a resource to others and to develop, deliver and evaluate a range of relevant specialist programmes of education and development for women/birthing people and large groups, including the wider multidisciplinary team, both internally and external to the trust.
Key Result Areas & Performance Assume responsibility for the rapid assessment, diagnostics and treatment of women/birthing people within the maternity triage and Day Assessment unit; in line with defined ACP competencies We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview. As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce. Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most. Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities. To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission. Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments. LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country. We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.