Specialist Midwife for Safeguarding and Vulnerable Families

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Registered Midwife with safeguarding experience related to children and adults to work within the maternity safeguarding team at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will support all activities to ensure the organisation meets its safeguarding responsibilities in regard to pregnant women/birthing people, new mothers and unborn and new-born babies within the care of the acute and community services.
The post holder will support the Named Midwife for Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Families to ensure the organisation meets its safeguarding responsibilities throughout the childbirth continuum. They will ensure the pregnant persons and their families with safeguarding issues receive appropriate care, support, and guidance to ensure the best outcomes for their unborn/new-born babies., The post holder will work across acute and community maternity services including the High Peak and within a multi-agency arena, providing advice and support to Trust staff on safeguarding issues.
Under the direction of the Named Midwife for Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Families, the post holder will participate in safeguarding supervision and the training of staff on safeguarding issues using a 'Think Family' approach inclusive of safeguarding children, adults and unborn babies
The post holder will be expected to attend strategy discussions, discharge planning meetings and child protection conferences when required as well as supporting the wider midwifery teams with plans based on the outcomes of these meetings.
To assess the full range of care and support needs - develops, implements and evaluates
programmes of care in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period for women with complex safeguarding needs and/or identified vulnerabilities.
Provide appropriate feedback and supportive challenge to practitioners where necessary, taking a trauma based approach.
Support the named midwife for safeguarding children and vulnerable families in investigations and responses to any complaint or investigations that may have a safeguarding element., The post holder will have a remit to help coordinate maternity care for pregnant people with safeguarding issues, ensuring staff respond in a professional, kind, caring and sensitive manner.
The post holder will support the development of current safeguarding systems within maternity services to ensure adequate communication of safeguarding issues to all levels of staff, escalating where necessary to ensure optimum care.
The post holder will be expected to demonstrate leadership and specialist knowledge to all midwifery staff to ensure excellence in safeguarding is embedded throughout the maternity team.
Facilitate discussions with the local authority supporting with information sharing between agencies ensuring to adhere to the Caldicott Principles.
Support the Named Midwife for Safeguarding and Vulnerable Families with implementing and maintaining a robust safeguarding supervision provision across the Trust maternity service that facilitates highly complex, contentious, sensitive and high-risk decision making.
Attend child protection conferences (where necessary)/strategy meetings and other interagency meetings and/or supports practitioners who are required to attend.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust's policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you'll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four 'specialist' hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a 'specialist' hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values 'We Care, We Respect, We Listen' are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: 'Making a difference every day.' They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear, We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population., Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting and championing a culture of diversity, fairness and equality for all applicants and employees. Applications are welcomed from all backgrounds and we strive to reflect the community we serve in our diverse workforce. Our "two tick" kite mark guarantees a candidate with a disability, who fulfills the essential criteria, an interview at the Trust. We can make reasonable adjustments, and offer support and advice in a variety of ways on request.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:
Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
NHS pension scheme membership
Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
NHS Staff discounts
Cycle to work scheme
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