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Location

Newport | United Kingdom

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Job description

We are recruiting fora Transformation Midwife who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “great people, great place”.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a midwife wishing to make a difference., the post holder will work within the maternity quality and safety team with midwifery and obstetric leads.

The transformation midwife will have a strong emphasis on quality improvement and will work closely with the quality and safety team and will be responsible for the development, coordination and delivery of quality improvements and initiatives which align to overall aims of the three year delivery plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services (2023) as well as national and local maternity services requirements

This role is for 22.5 hours per week on a 1 year fixed term contract.

Please note this role is subject to job evaluation.

The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team and will be expected to deliver an effective, high quality and well-coordinated Quality Improvement approach. The role must advocate a systems level coordinated approach across all areas of maternity services. The post holder will work closely with a wide range of clinical, operational managerial and service users to ensure all aspects of the improvements identified can be delivered. The role will be pivotal in ensuring practical improvements in the health and wellbeing outcomes with the maternity services at the IOW Trust

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values areCompassion,Accountable,Respect andEveryone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

If you are interested in joining our team and sharing in our vision to provide safe, high quality seamless services delivered with courtesy and respect; we would like to hear from you.

For further information contact:

Claire Carbonell – Patient Safety Lead Midwife

[email protected] 01983 822099 ext 3644

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Our 2020-2025 strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

This advert closes on Friday 8 Mar 2024

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