Consultant Midwife

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is seeking an exceptional Consultant Midwife to provide expert leadership for intrapartum care, complex births and clinical quality improvement across maternity services., Working closely with the Director of Midwifery and the Midwifery Leadership Team, the postholder will:

• Provide senior clinical leadership for intrapartum safety and complex births
• Lead development and oversight of complex care pathways
• Drive clinical quality improvement and perinatal surveillance
• Support learning from incidents, reviews and complaints, embedding improvement
• Strengthen multidisciplinary working and intrapartum education, training and simulation
The role combines a minimum of 50% expert clinical practice with professional leadership, consultancy, education and research through the four pillars of advanced practice.,
• Provide senior clinical leadership for intrapartum safety and complex births
• Lead development and oversight of complex care pathways
• Drive clinical quality improvement and perinatal surveillance
• Support learning from incidents, reviews and complaints, embedding improvement
• Strengthen multidisciplinary working and intrapartum education, training and simulation
The role combines a minimum of 50% expert clinical practice with professional leadership, consultancy, education and research through the four pillars of advanced practice., Here in Oxfordshire, we offer a unique set up of our Maternity Services with around 7500 babies born annually. We have 4 stand-alone Midwifery-Led Birth units within the county. These are based at Banbury, Chipping Norton, Wantage and Wallingford and we also offer home births to all areas. There is also an integrated Midwifery-Led birth unit, where around 10% of women and birthing people choose to go in labour. As a tertiary hospital, the John Radcliffe is composed of a Delivery Suite with 3 Maternity Theatres and a specific Maternity Recovery Ward. We work closely with specialist services such as the Fetal and Maternal Medicine Unit, Breech Team, and Maternity Bereavement Teams. Midwives employed within the service have the opportunity to rotate to all our units/departments providing care to both low and high risk women. For those working with us, we have a substantial support network for staff, focusing on wellbeing and development. This includes a team of professional Midwifery Advocates, Wellbeing Champions, staff networks and a staff Maternity Psychologist. We champion diversity and strive to ensure every member of our team feels included, valued, and has the confidence to speak up and be heard. We genuinely believe that by supporting our staff to feel happy and offering support within their work environment, we ensure the best quality of care for the women and birthing people who access our services.

This is a senior clinical leadership role for an autonomous expert practitioner with a strong focus on safety, complex decision-making and reducing unwarranted variation, ensuring high-quality, compassionate care for women, babies and families.,
• A Registered Midwife
• Educated to Master's level or equivalent
• An expert in intrapartum care and complexity
• An experienced senior clinical leader with credibility across multidisciplinary teams
• Committed to improving safety, quality, equity and experience in maternity care, Registered Midwife
• Relevant Teaching Qualification
• Educated to Masters Level
• Accredited Management and Leadership Development and Training
Desirable criteria
• PhD or Professional Doctorate
• Evidence of Publications and Research, Expert practitioner in all areas of midwifery
• Evidence of teaching in clinical and Unviersity setting
• Experience of developing and implementing policy
• Ability to teach complex midwifery to student and colleague groups
Desirable criteria
• Experience of implementing strategy
• Operational management experience or clinical background in provider environment
• Experience of working with academic institutions, Able to demonstrate a broad but in-depth knowledge of health policy in relation to midwifery practice
• Understanding of the complextities of the current health and social care environment
• Negotiating skills and ability to resolve conflict, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence., Sexual Safety Charter: In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment. If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.