Job summary
Evelina London, part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is excited to announce an excellent opportunity to join our committed team as a Consultant Midwife. Do you have expert midwifery skills and a passion for providing high quality, personalised care to women? Do you have the ability to develop and maintain key working relationships with internal and external key stakeholders to achieve outstanding woman centred care? Are you looking to make a real difference to women and staff experiences? Are you able to inspire and motivate highly skilled, multi-professional teams?
If this is you then an exciting opportunity has arisen to join the maternity services leadership team at Guy's & St. Thomas' Trust as a Consultant Midwife. This role will involve having the clinical expertise to provide exceptional standards of midwifery care and ensuring women's birth choices and experiences are of the highest quality. You will work closely with the Chief Midwife and Maternity Service Leads to ensure that we continue to deliver outstanding maternity services, which is an ambitious service and continuously improving.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a highly motivated, innovative, forward thinking midwife with an extensive experience in maternity care to provide effective, visible clinical and professional leadership for the midwifery and medical teams. You will have an excellent record in midwifery leadership, and will be able to demonstrate a commitment to help delivery of strategic ambitions, and role model exceptional midwifery skills to meet women's needs whilst working cohesively with the wider multi-disciplinary team.
About us
Evelina London is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With over 3,000 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share. We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy's and St Thomas' Trust Executive Board.
As the only NHS Trust in London with women's and specialist children's services on one site we have unique opportunities to provide excellent, high-quality, integrated care for mothers, babies and children. Our directorate provides high quality care to patients across South East London, as well as delivering a range of specialist services both nationally and internationally. We treat approximately 40,000 gynaecology patients, and care for 6,400 women giving birth, which includes around 300 private births a year. We have one of the largest specialist neonatal intensive care units in England as well as one of the largest NHS IVF units in the UK, which includes our flagship Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis services. Alongside our clinical services, we are integrated with colleagues at Kings College London, delivering a significant programme of research and development.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached documentation for detailed job description.
Candidates invited to interview will also complete a stakeholder engagement exercise. The details for this will be confirmed when candidates receive invitations to interview.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached documentation for detailed job description.
Candidates invited to interview will also complete a stakeholder engagement exercise. The details for this will be confirmed when candidates receive invitations to interview.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current Registration as a registered Midwife
- Masters Degree in relevant subject or working towards completion of a Masters Degree
- Leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Expert midwifery practitioner
Desirable
- Recognised teaching qualification
- Willing to undertake PhD
- Supervisor of Midwives or Professional Midwifery Advocate
Knowledge
Essential
- Expert knowledge of midwifery and birth in all care settings
- Practised advanced midwifery skills in all aspects of clinical midwifery
- In-depth knowledge of health policy
- Knowledge of quality standard setting and audit
- Research skills
- Demonstrable leadership skills, including ability to influence change
- Ability to influence, motivate and inspire others. Negotiating and ability to resolve conflict.
- Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory & practice
Desirable
- Managing a clinical area
- Examination of the newborn qualification
- Experience of academic published work or research
Skills
Essential
- Proven ability to manage change effectively within an operational environment, building engagement and involvement and rewarding innovation.
Desirable
- Influence via regional and national level roles
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current Registration as a registered Midwife
- Masters Degree in relevant subject or working towards completion of a Masters Degree
- Leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Expert midwifery practitioner
Desirable
- Recognised teaching qualification
- Willing to undertake PhD
- Supervisor of Midwives or Professional Midwifery Advocate
Knowledge
Essential
- Expert knowledge of midwifery and birth in all care settings
- Practised advanced midwifery skills in all aspects of clinical midwifery
- In-depth knowledge of health policy
- Knowledge of quality standard setting and audit
- Research skills
- Demonstrable leadership skills, including ability to influence change
- Ability to influence, motivate and inspire others. Negotiating and ability to resolve conflict.
- Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory & practice
Desirable
- Managing a clinical area
- Examination of the newborn qualification
- Experience of academic published work or research
Skills
Essential
- Proven ability to manage change effectively within an operational environment, building engagement and involvement and rewarding innovation.
Desirable
- Influence via regional and national level roles
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
