Close Relative Marriage Midwife

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work alongside the preconception team within Bevan to support healthy pregnancy planning as part of the Starting Well Team. This will include working closely with the Personalised Care Support Worker who will work within the communities raising awareness and providing individualised support to families.

This service aims to improve access to the provision of a culturally competent genetic service for consanguineous families at increased risk of autosomal recessive genetic disorders.

The provision of culturally competent genetic service for consanguineous families includes pre-pregnancy, antenatal and postnatal care for families that are practicing close relative marriage and are at increased risk of having a child with a genetic disorder due to a family history of a genetic condition(s).

Improving understanding about genetic inheritance can empower affected families and reduce unexpected, affected births. The Close Relative Marriage Midwife, along with the Genomic Associate (based in the regional genetics service) and other health and care professionals will facilitate this improvement.

The Close Relative Marriage Midwife will be based in the Children, Young people and Families team within Bevan and will also have access to a network of other Close Relative Marriage Midwives in other high need areas in England. They will also work collaboratively with both Trusts within the area.

The midwife will be a champion for families at increased risk of genetic disorders due to close relative marriage and a resource/point of contact for midwives, obstetricians and other members of the maternity team.

Develop an understanding of the issues and research evidence on the subject matter.

To improve access to genetic services by improving local pathways for women at increased risk of genetic disorders due to close relative marriage alongside the personalised care support worker at Bevan.

To improve outcomes for women at increased risk due to their family history.

The midwife will work as part of the team at Bevan with a remit around improving preconception care for the most at-risk groups, raising awareness in the community and supporting the Starting Well service.

The post holder will:

Ensure that provision of genetic information is available to all women practising close relative marriage with a family history of a genetic disorder to enable empowered and timely decision making.

Ensure timely referrals to the genetic service to ensure women have opportunity to understand their risks and the options available to them in a pregnancy.

Empower women to make informed choices in a culturally sensitive way.

Initiate sensitive, appropriate conversations with families affected with autosomal recessive disorders linked to close relative marriage.

Establish the role within the midwifery team and be a point of contact and/or referral for other midwives.

Support the development of and maintenance of collaborative working, including to:

Ensure a common understanding of genetic risk

Promote the use of standardised resources and materials

Support the development of joint ways of working across maternity, clinical genetics, health visiting and general practice

Ensure learning is shared with the maternity team

In particular, the post holder will:

Support teams to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively.

Support and inform the targeting of resources, implementation and evaluation of the project by providing high quality support including complex information and analysis, communications and stakeholder management.

Ensure accurate and open communication and co-ordination with a range of organisations and individuals, researching and drafting correspondence and papers and ensuring the management of specific tasks, lead reporting and analysis across a range of specialties, functions and projects.

Be a key member of the team as well as supporting effective communication and stakeholder management, both internally and externally.

Key accountabilities

Key Functional Responsibilities Analytical/Judgemental

Undertake complex and detailed information analysis of specific projects/reports requiring high levels of concentration.

Update, maintain, organise, gather and analyse information to predict/meet future organisational and team needs by identifying best professional practice.

Monitor and evaluate risks and issues using a tracking mechanism to enable a proactive resolution and escalation processes.

Contribute to the information management of performance, taking a lead

for specific projects.

Provide coordination of and participate in relevant meetings, reporting attendance and providing information advice and support where requested.

Communication

Work with members of the team and key stakeholder to investigate the causes of any variance from plan/delivery targets and contribute to the implementation of solutions.

Support the development of internal and external communications where required by regular contact with key teams, stakeholders and groups such as Every Baby Matters Steering Group.

Responsible for preparation of correspondence and complex papers, as directed by Manager.

Financial and Physical Resources

Deliver against organisational objectives, achieving quality outcomes, prioritising own workload and working to tight deadlines.

Support and inform teams on the targeting of resources, monitoring spends, implementing, evaluating and delivery of plans by providing sophisticated, high-quality information and analysis.

Continually strive for delivering project/function outcomes, value for money and greater efficiency.

Contribute to the financial delivery of the service ensuring it is cost effective and delivered on time.

People Management (as required)

Provide specialist training, advice and support on own role/responsibilities where necessary.

Support training and induction of new staff.

Responsible for team supervision and advice and act as a champion in relation to this area of work.

Operate within and provide enhancements to current management information, reporting to enhance decision making processes.

Updating, maintaining, organise, gather and analyse information to predict/meet future organisational and team needs by identifying best professional practice

Lead on development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of new information systems.

Responsible for the development and maintenance of databases required for regular reports.

Research and Development

Actively supports and contributes to the development of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of performance

Test and review new concepts, models, and practices.

Contributes to ensuring there are processes in place for spreading and sharing learning and outcomes

Planning and Organisation

Contribute to strategic planning.

Support implementation of strategic modernisation/service improvement, public health, workforce or commissioning strategies and any associated action plans.

Contribute to the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes

Contribute to the formulation of delivery plans for the service to ensure clear pathways are embedded as part of ongoing practice.

Shape the design and delivery of the service model and support the team to implement this.

Deliver against objectives, achieving quality outcomes, prioritising own workload and working to tight deadlines.

Policy and Service Development

Proposes changes to own area, informing policy and making recommendations for other projects delivery

Contribute to the review and development of existing information management systems.

Key Working Relationships

Required to maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.

Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services, and initiatives which may be highly complex, sensitive, political, and contain contentious information with the aim of providing information and analytical advice to the teams.

Communicate information, risks, issues and dependencies, including briefings and reports to project teams, sponsors and a range of internal and external staff

Person Specification

Skills, Capabilities & Attributes

Essential

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.
• Evidence of success in effective project and programme management.
• Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence.
• Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
• Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues.
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• Strategic thinking ability to anticipate.
• Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis.
• Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills .
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
• Skills for supporting project management.
• Previous experience in project management and planning. Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support.
• Skills for managing projects ensuring they meet financial targets.
• Skills for manipulating information.
• Intermediate keyboard skills.
• Ability to work without supervision.
• Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads to changing and often tight deadlines.
• An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.

Desirable

• Fluent in Urdu.

Qualifications

Essential

• Clinician with current NMC midwifery registration.
• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.

Desirable

• Evidence of genetic training/ experience in field of genetics.

Experience

Essential

• Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas, including an understanding of both genomics/genetics and midwifery.
• Specialist knowledge in a relevant subject to post graduate level.
• Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of health services.
• Experience in communications and stakeholder management.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project management and/or health information
• systems development.
• Workforce development knowledge and experience.

Desirable

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Project.
• Previous experience in similar role in public sector.
• A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.

Values & Behaviours

Essential

• Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
• Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
• Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
• Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
• Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
• Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations.
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity taking into account and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda.
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity.
• Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
• Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness.

Other

Essential

• Ability to travel across sites where required.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Bevan Community Benefit Society

Address

14 Piccadilly

Bradford

West Yorkshire

BD1 3LS

Employer's website

https://wearebevan.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)