Consultant Midwife

East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) currently provides maternity related care to over 8,000 women a year, from early pregnancy through to delivery and postpartum care. This is delivered through both telephone and face to face assessment and care; and is provided by a range of ambulance staff including paramedics, nurses and non-registered ambulance staff.

The Consultant Midwife role provides overall maternity care professional leadership across the Trust. The reach of the service covers a significant geographical area and a number of acute maternity care (Obstetric Units), Stand Alone birthing units and home birthing services.

In the function of a senior clinical leader working within the Medical/Clinical Directorate, the Consultant Midwife provides expert clinical and strategic leadership; including the development of our strategy for maternity care, setting standards and guidelines for maternity care, in keeping with NMC, HCPC and national policy documents and guidance.

The Consultant Midwife will be professionally active across key areas to support the Trusts' strategic objectives:

Advanced and Expert Practice

• Have a highly visible professional profile, providing advisory and clinical input into inclusive maternity care.
• Provide expert clinical advice upon on relevant areas of care and wider determinants of health and socio-economic inequity.

Leadership

• Lead by example, demonstrating compassionate leadership.
• Recognise, understand and accept the requirement to act as an inclusive advocate for service users, carers, service and organisation and advocate for underrepresented/ disadvantaged, marginalised groups.

Education

• Promote a culture of lifelong learning, professional accountability and effectiveness.
• Work to influence, develop and deliver appropriate teaching, learning and education at local and regional levels.

Research and Development

• Identify service developments through audit/research, share new ideas and concepts, providing recommendations for to overcome barriers, manage conflict and resistance to improve outcomes for pregnant patients and their babies.

Strategy

• Act as a senior clinician within the Trust’s senior leadership team taking a pro-active approach to organisational development.
• Provide national, regional and local advocacy for addressing disparity in health outcomes for pregnant patients and their babies.

Please see Job description and specification for further information.

You will be an experienced clinician, passionate about delivering clinical excellence and person-centred care. You will be an evidence-based and professional practitioner who is committed to providing the best possible care for patients.

You will have excellent verbal and written communication skills to work with internal and external stakeholders, service users, colleagues and other healthcare professionals. You will have strong organisational and project management skills, experience of leading or educating others and will have completed practice educator development with demonstrable experience of supporting students.

You will demonstrate the EMAS Trust values and be a positive clinical leader and role model to other clinicians within the organisation. You will also be a positive ambassador and advocate for patient care, particularly within your portfolio of responsibilities.

The position is a combination of home/remote working and attendance across the East Midlands as required for education, clinical practice and staff/stakeholder engagement.

Selection Process

Successfully shortlisted candidates will be invited to a formal interview and presentation/engagement event. This will be face to face.

If you have any further questions or for an informal conversation about the role please contact Ian Mursell, Consultant Paramedic:

email: ian.mursell@emas.nhs.uk

Tel: 0115 884 5000 (calls will be forwarded)