Lead Professional Midwifery Advocate

Are you looking to make a real difference in inspiring and motivating midwives? Do you have a passion for providing high-quality care, whilst maintaining your own expert clinical practice and acting as a role model for midwives?

We have an exciting opportunity to join our driven midwifery workforce, supporting the maternity team and being an integral part of our dedicated workforce and well-being team.

We are looking for a passionate Midwife to step into the Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) lead role. The lead PMA will utilise the 4 elements of the NHSE A-EQUIP model providing a continuous improvement process that builds upon personal and professional resilience as well as enhancing quality of care for women and families., The Professional Midwifery Advocate will use the A-EQUIP (Advocating for Education and Quality Improvement) approach to support all midwives to improve system performance and the experiences of midwives and women.

• Utilise agreed metrics to demonstrate on going added value of the role of Professional Midwifery Advocate and monitoring outcomes for staff and women e.g. whether there is a reduction in complaints by women, or improved satisfaction surveys or there is a reduction in sickness absence for midwives and improved retention of midwives


• Identify, collate, analyse and interpret quantitative and qualitative data to inform the development of reports regarding the process, impact and outcome of the PMA role and the A-EQUIP model


• Be innovative and creative when determining strategies to improve quality of care and embed evidence based practice


• Act as a role model by applying continuous personal improvement by using positive learning approaches and encourage others to adopt this culture


• Use their understanding of personal and professional resilience and support others to develop this attribute


• Supporting midwives to advocate for women


• Lead as required on any projects to improve the quality of care within the maternity service


• Enable midwives to be responsible and accountable for their actions and behaviours by creating a safe space to think, feel, reflect utilising the principles of RCS
  
  Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care'takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are