University Hospitals Tees
Specialist Midwife in Maternal Mental Health
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Job Description
About the Role
This is a new, key role in developing and maintaining high standards of care for women and birthing people suffering from grief/loss, trauma, or tokophobia in pregnancy and the postnatal period and their families. You will contribute to the implementation of the new Maternal Mental Health Service for University hospitals Tees.
You should be passionate about developing and moving the service forward in line with key recommendations, local, and national agenda. You will have a high level of relevant expert knowledge and skills which you will use to develop, lead, and manage care for pregnant and new mothers with mental health needs, working alongside specialist psychologists and other healthcare professionals.
Responsibilities
- Provide a service of extra support and care, working in partnership with maternity and mental health services.
- Care will be based on individual needs, and you will work closely with women and birthing people and families to ensure that psychological support from psychologists is supported by midwifery care in partnership.
- Provide professional leadership and work closely with existing specialist midwives and the wider maternity system to ensure women and birthing people in the Tees Valley region have access to high-quality maternal mental health care.
- To provide expert care to all women and birthing people requiring mental health support.
- To actively promote the development of the Maternal Mental Health Service.
- To take responsibility alongside the psychology service for the management of the Maternal Mental Health Service and the necessary data collection, governance, and reporting.
- To ensure the department provides excellent standards of clinical practice and a culture focused on patient engagement and experience, liaising with the MNVP.
- To ensure that you are a visible member of the senior team and that you are accessible to patients, families, and carers.
- To promote positive, professional leadership to ensure contemporaneous, safe, and cost-effective midwifery care in accordance with the Trust’s Nursing and Midwifery strategy and national strategies including ‘Compassion in Practice’ (6C’s).
- To maintain an environment in which operational excellence, learning, research and development, and innovation are encouraged.
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South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.
Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.
We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.
We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Rosie Dawson
- Job title: Consultant Midwife
- Email address: rosemary.dawson2@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01642 850850 ext. 57897
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