Band 8b Consultant Midwife- Maternity

• Expert clinical practice.
• Professional leadership and consultancy.
• Education, training and development.
• Practice and service development, research and evaluation.

• Provide visionary and inspirational professional leadership, influencing colleagues to improve standards, quality and the development of midwifery practice.
• Support and empower midwives to realise their full potential as autonomous practitioners, promoting physiological birth and normality while ensuring timely recognition and appropriate management of complications.
• Act as a visible and accessible role model for midwives, students and junior medical colleagues, providing expert advice, supervision, support and debriefing.

• Build midwives' confidence and capability in evidence-based practice, empowering them to challenge established approaches, influence positive change and strengthen the contribution and profile of midwifery.
• Act as an expert advisor and ambassador for UHB maternity services, representing the Trust internally and externally and promoting excellence in midwifery practice at regional and national levels.

Essential

• * Evidence of a substantial clinical experience and ability to function at level required of the post
• * Previous experience in a broad range of clinical midwifery experience and continued clinical practice and significant experience in a senior midwifery
• * Experience of working in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team
• * Demonstrate experience of managing change within a clinical environment
• * Evidence of innovative practice that involves research and or audit
• * Evidence of research
• * Project management skills
• * Evidence of participation in regional and national networks
• * Awareness of National NHS agenda and the National Maternity Transformation requirements
• * Knowledge of current developments in midwifery and political awareness of NHS
• * Ability to both influence and work across professional boundaries
• * Experience of developing staff
• * Experience of leading on a change project
• * Evidence of teaching
• * Understanding of the local priorities within the local health community
• * Knowledge of standard setting and audit process.
• * Knowledge of quality standard setting and audit