Specialist Midwife - PAS

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Published: Published 1 week ago

Flexible working:

Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.

Job overview

Specialist Midwife - West Midlands Regional Placenta Accreta Spectrum

This exciting new role has been created to provide strategic and clinical leadership as the Specialist Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS) Midwife for the West Midlands Perinatal Network (WMPN). The role will focus on developing, strengthening, and coordinating the regional PAS network, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary PAS teams across the four regional referral centres to ensure equitable, high-quality care delivery.

The postholder will provide expert midwifery support to women diagnosed with PAS, ensuring a consistent, evidence-based, and holistic approach throughout the care pathway.

Given the well-recognised psychological morbidity associated with PAS, including increased rates of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and long-term physical complications, dedicated specialist midwifery leadership is essential.

The postholder will have a special interest in psychological support and incorporate this into the direct care provided to patients. The candidate will also be passionate in providing continuity of care for women with complex obstetric needs and be an advocate throughout their journey.

Provisional interview date Wednesday 04th November

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The postholder will provide direct clinical care to women with a suspected diagnosis of PAS across all four designated PAS centres.
Acting as a patient advocate and champion, the postholder will ensure that the patient voice remains central to all clinical network activities, embedding person-centred principles within the networked model of care and associated clinical pathways.
The postholder must demonstrate strategic thinking and the ability to plan, coordinate, and deliver a complex programme of work spanning multiple providers, commissioners, and patient groups.
They will possess the professional credibility, expertise, and interpersonal skills necessary to unite diverse stakeholders, manage differing perspectives, and, where required, act as an impartial facilitator to reconcile competing priorities.

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centered care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Preoperative counselling and preparation.
Postoperative psychosocial follow-up.
Coordination of care across multiple providers and organisations
Support for women and families experiencing trauma, anxiety, or bereavement.
Ensuring adherence to national guidance and quality standards.
Contributing to clinical governance, including supporting the development of regional standard operating procedures (SOPs) and patient information resources.
Leading audit activity and supporting robust data collection.
Supporting the establishment of a regional patient support group.

Sponsorship:

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Artificial Intelligence (AI):

We understand that some applicants may choose to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in preparing their application materials. While this is not discouraged, we kindly remind candidates that all submissions must be truthful and accurately reflect your own experiences and suitability for this role. Personal integrity and authenticity are central to our recruitment process. We value honesty and appreciate applications that are genuine and representative of the individual behind them.

Applications that rely too heavily on AI tools can appear generic and lack the detail we need to assess your skills and experience. Such applications will unlikely be progressed to interview.

Reasonable Adjustments:

BWC is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to fostering an inclusive environment for those with a disability, long term health or mental health condition. The Disability Confident scheme means we actively encourage applications from people with disabilities, long term health or mental health conditions, and we want to ensure our recruitment practices are inclusive and accessible to all. Our aim is to get the best out of every individual and if successful for interview, you will be asked if you require any reasonable adjustments (special requirements). We will strive to support and accommodate these requests where possible.

Safeguarding

As a Trust employee you are required to comply with all legislation and guidance relating to safeguarding children and adults with care and support needs, and promoting their health and welfare. You are required to inform the Head of Safeguarding of any safeguarding concerns about your own children or children you live with. This information will be treated in a confidential manner.