Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a midwife with experience in safeguarding to join the Hillingdon Hospital Topaz midwifery team.

We are looking for a midwife with experience in safeguarding, who will work alongside a fellow Band 7 Complex Social and /or psychological needs Specialist Midwife and be supported by the Named Midwife for Safeguarding and the Safeguarding Families Team within the Trust.

As a highly motivated individual, with passion for providing high quality, evidence-based specialist maternity care. The postholder will be integral to supporting and continually developing a small specialist team supporting families who may require enhanced safeguarding.

The midwife will lead a small geographically based team who currently support women as the case loading midwife through the antenatal and postnatal period. This service may change with the implementation of Continuity of Carer Teams.

If you are successful, you will assume the role as Complex Social and /or Psychological Needs Specialist Midwife for our Trust, and be responsible for organisation, delivery, monitoring of midwifery care and multi-agency working provided to this group of women and their families to address inequalities and improve outcomes.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be responsible for sharing relevant and appropriate information with staff within and outside THH demonstrating safe multi-agency/partnership working in accordance with the principles of GDPR

The post holder will have responsibility networking with multi agency partners, support services, reporting, raising awareness, and working towards addressing health inequalities and improving outcomes for service users within maternity services. 

The post holder will always ensure that women/ birthing people, babies, children and young people are safeguarded and their welfare promoted.

The postholder will be a specialist point of contact for colleagues and involved in providing and developing training of staff, to ensure safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and supporting the facilitation of safeguarding supervision with staff across the Trust.

 The post holder will take responsibility, in partnership with the Named Midwife for safeguarding and the senior management team, in continually striving to improve the pathway for this group of service users, ensuring access to maternity services within their unit and across the Northwest London

Working for our organisation

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust’s services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.

The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this – particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities,
community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals
provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.