Named Midwife for Safeguarding Children

• Act as the lead professional for safeguarding within maternity services, ensuring compliance with statutory guidance, NHS England standards, and local safeguarding policies
• Provide specialist advice to midwives and the wider multidisciplinary team on safeguarding concerns, including child protection, domestic abuse, and vulnerable adults
• Work closely with social care, police, health visitors, and other agencies to promote a Think Family approach
• Participate in and contribute to serious case reviews, domestic homicide reviews, and safeguarding audits
• Design, deliver, and evaluate safeguarding training programmes for maternity staff
• Provide safeguarding supervision to midwives and other staff, supporting reflective practice and professional development
• Assist in developing and reviewing safeguarding policies, procedures, and guidelines within maternity services
• Maintain accurate safeguarding records and produce reports for internal governance and external agencies as required
• Lead on audits and quality improvement initiatives related to safeguarding, ensuring continuous improvement in practice
• Act as the point of escalation for complex safeguarding cases and ensure timely risk assessments and action planning

• Must be a Registered Midwife (Active NMC Registration)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate with a range of people including staff, other professionals, service users and parents/carers
• Ability and skills to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff internal and external to the organisation i.e. partner agencies
• Able to confidently deliver safeguarding training
• Able to undertake audits
• Able to work independently, organise workload, prioritise, and demonstrate initiative
• Effective problem solving skills
• Will have the skills and ability to be able to analyse information and make decisions in stressful and complex situations
• Ability to prioritise and move from one task to another at short notice
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to offer constructive challenge and escalate concerns where appropriate
• Ability to lead a small team
• Computer literate
• Significant experience of working at a senior level
• Significant experience of working to safeguard children in maternity services
• Experience of planning, delivering, and designing training
• Experience of multi-agency working at a senior level
• Experience in undertaking audits, collating data and analysing findings
• Experience of developing or contributing to policy, procedure or guidance
• Experience of managing investigations, including root cause analysis
• Experience of making/ leading improvements in service delivery
• Experience of facilitating and supporting change in practice delivery
• Experience of offering specialist advice and support to staff
• Experience of delivering safeguarding supervision
• Experience of preparing reports and statements for case conferences and court statements
• Experience of escalating concerns and making professional challenge
• Experience of producing annual reports
• Experience of representing an organisation at subgroups of the safeguarding board
• Experience of undertaking serious case reviews or contributing towards them
• Principles underpinning effective child protection practice
• A good level of knowledge of the national and local safeguarding agenda including relevant policy, procedures, practice legislation and developments
• Knowledge of current research findings and evidenced based practice
• A thorough understanding of policy and issues relating to data protection, confidentiality and information sharing

• Experience of working as a Named Midwife
• Experience of dealing with the child death, rapid response process
• Experience of horizon scanning and implementing changes to practice based on local or national drivers
• Experience of the MARAC process
• Training/teaching qualification
• Masters in Child Protection or be working towards this
• Undertaken supervision training equivalent to the NSPCC safeguarding supervision skills course

Flexible working