ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Respect, Kind, Positive, Professional, Teamwork.
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Disability Advice Line: SWL Recruitment Hub is committed to promoting equity and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We believe that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even more positive impact on the people we serve. For support with job opportunities and reasonable adjustments contact our Confidential Disability Advice Line at:

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

Professional midwifery leadership is a key and fundamental function of the Director of Midwifery role. This role is professionally accountable to the Chief Nurse, with a focus on the operational and strategic delivery of high standards of midwifery services in the Trust and ensuring the experiences of women are consistently high, and learning is embedded into practice. The role involves ensuring ESTH maternity services are effective, caring, responsive and well led. This role will lead the safety and quality agenda for the service, encapsulating equality diversity and inclusion ensuring alignment with the safety and quality framework . This role involves working in partnership with other organisations across the Surrey ICS and SWL ICS and the post holder will develop and maintain a network of mutually beneficial relationships with The Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS), the Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP), UK Health Security Agency, the Regional Chief Midwife, the Royal Colleges, NHSE and other key stakeholders. This is with the aim of taking forward national polices for women and translating them into innovations and improvements in care for the women and babies of our local population.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

The Director of Midwifery and Gynaecology role supports services at Epsom & St Helier Hospitals and Gynaecology outpatient services at Leatherhead Hospital Please see attached job description for further details and main responsibilities.