Safeguarding Midwife

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust (CDDFT) are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Safeguarding Midwife to work within our wider Safeguarding Children Team and alongside our caring and compassionate colleagues across the maternity and children services and within the wider organisation. We are looking for a highly motivated, dynamic and innovative Band 6 Midwife to join our supportive, hard-working, friendly and committed team, working across the Trust.

As a member of the Safeguarding Children Team you will be required to provide safeguarding advice and support; other responsibilities include; supporting risk assessment, analysis and decision-making within safeguarding practice. You must confident to provide training independently and supporting the facilitation of safeguarding supervision with staff across the Trust. You will work closely with the Specialist Safeguarding Midwife and wider safeguarding team, to deliver the maternity safeguarding agenda across the Trust, whilst also working closely with our multi-agency safeguarding partnerships.

The role will require cross-site working.The successful candidate will be experienced in caring for vulnerable women from a wide variety of backgrounds, including those with complex social factors and safeguarding concerns. They will have a good understanding of safeguarding processes pertaining to vulnerable women, unborn and newborn babies and their families. They will have a sound understanding of national and local safeguarding procedures and key legislation, and its relevance within safeguarding. You will have a robust knowledge and experience around identifying vulnerability and risk during the childbirth continuum.

You will have a commitment to ensuring that safeguarding provision across CDDFT maternity service continues to develop in line with current learning from incidents, local and national reviews and feedback from staff around their learning needs. You will utilise the evidence-base, adopting a child/family focused approach to practice,ensuring the Trust fulfil its statutory responsibility.If you have a passion for Safeguarding Children & vulnerable women, a keen desire to improve the outcomes for vulnerable women, babies & families, then this is the post for you.

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We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.