Specialist Midwife - PASNHS

Job summary

Specialist Midwife - West Midlands Regional Placenta Accreta Spectrum

This exciting new role has been created to provide strategic and clinical leadership as the Specialist Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS) Midwife for the West Midlands Perinatal Network (WMPN). The role will focus on developing, strengthening, and coordinating the regional PAS network, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary PAS teams across the four regional referral centres to ensure equitable, high-quality care delivery.

The postholder will provide expert midwifery support to women diagnosed with PAS, ensuring a consistent, evidence-based, and holistic approach throughout the care pathway.

Given the well-recognised psychological morbidity associated with PAS, including increased rates of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and long-term physical complications, dedicated specialist midwifery leadership is essential.

The postholder will have a special interest in psychological support and incorporate this into the direct care provided to patients. The candidate will also be passionate in providing continuity of care for women with complex obstetric needs and be an advocate throughout their journey.

Provisional interview date Wednesday 04th November

Main duties of the job

• The postholder will provide direct clinical care to women with a suspected diagnosis of PAS across all four designated PAS centres.
• Acting as a patient advocate and champion, the postholder will ensure that the patient voice remains central to all clinical network activities, embedding person-centred principles within the networked model of care and associated clinical pathways.
• The postholder must demonstrate strategic thinking and the ability to plan, coordinate, and deliver a complex programme of work spanning multiple providers, commissioners, and patient groups.
• They will possess the professional credibility, expertise, and interpersonal skills necessary to unite diverse stakeholders, manage differing perspectives, and, where required, act as an impartial facilitator to reconcile competing priorities.

Job description

• Preoperative counselling and preparation.
• Postoperative psychosocial follow-up.
• Coordination of care across multiple providers and organisations
• Support for women and families experiencing trauma, anxiety, or bereavement.
• Ensuring adherence to national guidance and quality standards.
• Contributing to clinical governance, including supporting the development of regional standard operating procedures (SOPs) and patient information resources.
• Leading audit activity and supporting robust data collection.
• Supporting the establishment of a regional patient support group.

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centered care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.