The Ocean: Birth Trauma and Loss Team provides the Maternal Mental Health Service for the BSW (Bath Swindon and Wiltshire) Area. The Team is made up of Psychological Therapists and Specialists Midwives and is commissioned to provide treatment to women and birthing people who are experiencing moderate to severe and complex, mental health difficulties as a consequence of their pregnancy and birth experience. We work with people who have experienced traumatic births and baby loss and those who are pregnant and are experiencing severe anxiety.
The Team has a part time specialist midwife in each of the hospitals in the BSW are and is now recruiting a midwife to be employed within AWP and are now recruiting midwife to be employed by AWP to provide a central tole covering the whole BSW area.
The role will build on the work already provided by the specialist midwives, offering an enhanced midwifery service to service users. This will include assessing needs, offering support to pregnant women, such as information sharing, planning, supported site visits, liaising with other maternity service staff Mental Health teams. Support for post-natal women will be offered through birth reflections appointments, site visits and supporting Psychological Therapy. In addition, the post holder will offer a centralised coordination for the midwifery element of the service, supporting colleagues, helping to deliver treatment, and providing specialist skills and knowledge to non midwifery members of the team and partner organisations, promoting a trauma-informed approach through training and consultancy.
Access to your own transport for work use is essential as public transport is unreliable in parts of the BSW area.
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

• Review and work to embed the team’s clinical programme, including referral, assessment, treatment, discharge and aftercare.
• Establish and embed robust clinical supervision and reflective practice processes
• Take a lead on the support, coaching and mentoring of clinicians around core areas of midwifery practice.
• Review and embed local clinical / operational protocols in accordance with current Trust policy, leading and managing positive change processes
• Review and embed baseline levels of core competency and accepted practice in accordance with national guidelines (e.g. NICE) and current clinical evidence
• Work proactively, compassionately and dynamically with the clinical team to ensure practice is orientated to contemporary ethical, clinical and professional standards
• Share with the team manager the leadership of, and accountability for, all aspects of patient safety and safeguarding, and any relevant improvement work around these areas (e.g. awareness raising, process review, training and mentoring).
• Design, adapt and embed measures to improve patient experience and define the ‘patient journey’ as it relates to the team.
• Assess and improve core aspects of clinical documentation (including care planning, progress recording, mental state assessment, risk assessment and formulation), identifying requirements for additional, external resources where necessary.
• Be a contact point and a visible / accessible clinical leader for the team, working alongside practitioners to develop an integrated culture of care.
• Undertake and support the specialist assessment of maternity needs and psychological functioning for service users with complex health and wellbeing needs.
• Be jointly responsible with the team manager and other, specialist midwives to facilitate and develop robust joint working arrangements with maternity services across the locality and other providers of perinatal mental health care such as The Perinatal Mental Health Team and Talking Therapies.
• Oversee and support student placements, apprenticeships and other clinical learning experiences, working towards a sustainable learning culture
• Plan, deliver and evaluate specialist therapeutic interventions within sphere of speciality working directly with other registered practitioners.
• Lead and promote a whole team approach within the service to ensure a shared ownership of the clinical programme and shared responsibility for the care environment
• Work with the team manager to ensure that continuing improvements to the service are in line with organisational goals.
• Work with the team manager and all team members to develop a culture that not only promotes equality and diversity, but actively champions the value of a diverse workforce.

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