East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Perinatal Mental Health Midwife
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Job Title: Perinatal Mental Health Midwife
We are recruiting for a Perinatal Mental Health Midwife who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
This is an excellent opportunity to join the safeguarding team within the Trust. You will be a fundamental part of the safeguarding team and work closely with the maternity division to ensure that the safeguarding / Perinatal mental health remains at the heart of practice within Midwifery.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Purpose of the Position
The primary purpose of this position is to ensure the safety and welfare of all pregnant women and their babies in receipt of care within East and North Hertfordshire NHS Teaching Trust services. In order to undertake this, the post holder will manage and lead the safeguarding midwifery and perinatal mental health team, and will contribute to delivering the wider safeguarding and mental health services.
Responsibilities
- Offer expert advice and guidance to staff in all matters relating to maternity safeguarding and perinatal mental health.
- Ensure the development of a confident and competent workforce that is able to recognise and appropriately respond to any safeguarding concerns.
- Work closely with the wider safeguarding team to continually improve and develop the safeguarding agenda.
- Align with the Trust's strategic agenda, as well as local and national safeguarding priorities and guidance.
- Provide effective communication, networking, and liaison.
- Establish and maintain good working relationships within health services and other agencies to ensure that information relating to safeguarding is up to date and embedded in practice.
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About Us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
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- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
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We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
Work Life Balance
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Stacey Malone
- Job Title: Named Midwife for Safeguarding
- Email Address: stacey.malone@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 01438285120
Head of Children's and Maternity Safeguarding
- Name: Sarah Corrigan
- Email Address: sarahcorrigan@nhs.net
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