Named Midwife for Safeguarding and Trust lead for Domestic Abuse

We are looking for an enthusiastic highly motivated senior midwife with a vision to develop and maintain high standards of safeguarding practice across the organisation. The role requires the individual to have experience in safeguarding the unborn and the domestic abuse agenda, The postholder will need to be enthusiastic, energetic, and passionate about providing high quality safeguarding practice.
The post holder will be responsible for providing joint leadership and management to the Countess of Chester Hospital Safeguarding team as well as having oversight of the maternity safeguarding cases for the organisation. They will also be responsible for leading the Trust's Domestic Abuse agenda. There will be close working arrangements with the Local Safeguarding Partnerships and external partner agencies to meet the needs of the safeguarding work.
The postholder must be able to demonstrate excellent leadership skills, be a caring and compassionate individual focused on providing excellent quality patient care, working within the values held by the Trust.

Main duties of the job
This role will provide specialised support and training to enhance patient and staff experience at the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Your working hours would be based on a working week pattern of Monday to Friday 8:30-4:30 with flexibility to meet the needs of the service.
The post holder will work closely with other named professionals and senior management across the Trust to ensure that the Think Family strategy is embedded in every aspect of care delivery, providing corporate safeguarding support across the organisation and in collaboration with Key stakeholders from LSAB, LSCP, Domestic Abuse Board, and Community Safety Partnership
The responsibilities of the post will include proactively and reactively engaging with frontline staff and managers and to provide evidence based specialist information, advice, guidance and support required to help staff practice safely to safeguard children, young people, adults at risk and anyone who is a victim of Domestic Abuse confidently and effectively.
As the Named Midwife, the post holder will take the lead in developing strategies across the safeguarding and Domestic Abuse agenda, and will represent the Trust on a range of multi-agency statutory groups ., The Department of Health and Social Care has released a new publication to support overseas candidates looking to work in health and care in the UK.
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The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
+ The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
+ Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
+ Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

Band 8a
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, staff pride themselves on not only leading through clinical excellence, but also by creating an environment where all staff are valued and appreciated. To achieve this, the Trust has embarked on an exciting new strategy focused on continuous improvement.
Our vision is to improve the lives of our community and provide excellence in healthcare, through partnership and innovation
Our High Performance Culture will support everyone to be the best version of themselves by being true to our Trust vision, values and behaviors.
We welcome applications from colleagues from our local and neighbouring communities of all backgrounds and identities, who are currently under-represented within our region such as Black, Asian, Minority ethnic and those with disabilities.
As a region we are reviewing the way we work, and exploring how new working practices that support flexible working can create a positive work-life balance. As part of our recruitment process we will explore how our inclusive employment policies, flexible working, staff engagement forums, Trust facilities and services can be of mutual benefit., Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
If the role is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Enhanced DBS check applications that are submitted with omitted or incorrect information will be withdrawn. In the event errors are identified on your original application, a new application will need to be submitted and you will be required to pay the DBS application fee again.
The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.