Named Midwife for Safeguarding (Band 8a)NHS

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced, compassionate and highly credible midwifery leader to join Airedale NHS Foundation Trust as our Named Midwife for Safeguarding. This is a pivotal senior role, providing expert leadership, professional advice and assurance across maternity services and working with partners to protect women, unborn babies, children and families

Main duties of the job

As Named Midwife for Safeguarding, you will provide visible, accessible and authoritative leadership for safeguarding across acute and community maternity services. You will shape strategy, strengthen practice, lead assurance and improvement, and ensure that statutory duties, national standards and local multi-agency requirements are consistently met.

• Provide expert safeguarding advice, supervision and professional leadership to maternity teams.
• Lead the maternity safeguarding work plan, audit programme, policy development and service improvement.
• Support complex case management, reviews and legal processes, ensuring learning is translated into sustained improvement.
• Produce high-quality assurance, performance and annual reports for senior leaders, committees, commissioners and regulators.
• Build strong partnerships across health, social care, police, safeguarding partnerships and regional and national networks.
• Lead and develop the maternity safeguarding team, champions and specialist safeguarding midwife.

Job description

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information and full details of the job role.

About us

This is an opportunity to influence safeguarding practice across the organisation and wider system in a role with genuine strategic reach. You will work closely with the Deputy Chief Nurse, Patient Safety & Head of Safeguarding and the Director of Midwifery, alongside committed clinical teams and multi-agency partners. The post is based at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and requires travel across the district as necessary.

We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:

Cycle to WorkTravel SchemeChildcare Vouchers with Salary SacrificeOnsite NurseryBuying and Selling Annual LeaveCar LeasingEmployee Assistance ProgrammeEmployee Health and WellbeingExtensive Reward SchemeCounselling ServiceFinancial packages including Vivup and WagestreamStaff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.

Our values:

We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:

• Committed to Quality of Care
• Compassion
• Working together for patients
• Improving Lives
• Everyone Counts
• Respect and Dignity

Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.