Placenta Accreta Spectrum Specialist Midwife - pending AFC evaluation'

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate midwifery care for women on the PAS pathway, ensuring privacy, dignity and personalised support throughout their antenatal and postnatal journey.

Provide specialist clinical expertise and guidance to midwifery and medical colleagues involved in the care of women with suspected or confirmed PAS, supporting safe, coordinated decision-making.

Prioritise and develop individualised care pathways based on comprehensive risk assessment, ensuring that plans reflect each woman's clinical needs, wellbeing and preferences.

Analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of PAS care pathways, identifying areas for improvement and providing professional advice to enhance safety, quality and consistency.

Maintain accurate, timely and professional documentation in line with Trust policies, national standards and regulatory requirements.

Apply counselling skills when delivering difficult news, supporting bereavement, or discussing outcomes related to antenatal screening and PAS-associated risks.

Work collaboratively with specialist teams and other relevant MDT members to ensure seamless care.

Maintain up-to-date knowledge of PAS guidelines, quality standards and best practice, ensuring care delivery remains evidence-based and aligned with national recommendations.

Monitor and evaluate the quality of PAS care, identifying variances, addressing concerns, and taking proactive steps to improve pathway performance and patient experience.

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate midwifery care for women on the PAS pathway, ensuring privacy, dignity and personalised support throughout their antenatal and postnatal journey.

Provide specialist clinical expertise and guidance to midwifery and medical colleagues involved in the care of women with suspected or confirmed PAS, supporting safe, coordinated decisionmaking.

Prioritise and develop individualised care pathways based on comprehensive risk assessment, ensuring that plans reflect each womans clinical needs, wellbeing and preferences.

Analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of PAS care pathways, identifying areas for improvement and providing professional advice to enhance safety, quality and consistency.

Maintain accurate, timely and professional documentation in line with Trust policies, national standards and regulatory requirements.

Use advanced interpersonal and communication skills when supporting women and families experiencing complex issues such as safeguarding concerns, domestic violence, mental health challenges, substance misuse or sexual health matters.

Communicate complex and sensitive information with empathy and clarity, ensuring women and their families feel supported and reassured during discussions about diagnosis, treatment plans and potential complications.

Apply counselling skills when delivering difficult news, supporting bereavement, or discussing outcomes related to antenatal screening and PASassociated risks.

Work collaboratively with specialist teams and other relevant MDT members to ensure seamless care

Maintain uptodate knowledge of PAS guidelines, quality standards and best practice, ensuring care delivery remains evidencebased and aligned with national recommendations.

Monitor and evaluate the quality of PAS care, identifying variances, addressing concerns, and taking proactive steps to improve pathway performance and patient experience.

Ensure that the day-to-day service delivered as required by the service needs

Promote best practice in health, safety and security.

Monitor and maintain the efficient use of physical and/or financial resources within the current financial constraints reporting any deviances to the manager promptly.

Liaise with the multidisciplinary team and multi-agencies co-coordinating and participating in case discussions as required.

Ensure that the service is a positive learning experience for students and junior staff and meet the necessary standards for placement.

Identify and manage challenging behaviours as directed by trust policies

Recognize, communicate and reward the achievements of staff in a learning capacity and provide constructive feedback, advice and on-going practice.

Provide professional leadership and support to colleagues.

Lead and develop the implementation of care pathways for the services of women on the PAS care pathway.

Ensure that essential information on the clients condition and progress is recorded appropriately according to NMC guidelines.

Monitor progress of work recognising changing priorities and implement corrective actions within own limits and informing the relevant people.

Act as a mentor and assessor to assigned learners and teach and support them through their competency assessments as required.

Lead in the appraisal process for a defined group of staff in accordance with trust policies.

Communicate clearly with colleagues and provide them with opportunities tocontribute to the planning and organization of work.

Deal personally with clients, families and carers in order to aid resolution of complaints. Report all incidents, complaints or accidents to the Matron and assist in their investigation and resolution.

Monitor and manage sickness and absence in accordance with trust policies.

Have active involvement in the recruitment and selection process.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Qualifications

Essential: - Registered Midwife with current UK NMC pin number; - Post registration experience

Experience