Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Patient care

- Demonstrate and promote a family centred style of clinical practice.

- Use motivational interviewing techniques to assess, and plan and offer a range of safe contraceptive options; deliver, evaluate and amend the plan. This will include clients with diverse or complex presentations/multi-pathologies. Working as an autonomous practitioner with access to guidance from specialist sexual health services when necessary.

- To be responsible for the organisation of your own work and ensure effective time management.  To assist the midwifery teams in administering contraception and offer support and guidance as required.

- To run satellite clinics providing postnatal contraception.

- To communicate with the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) to aid effective care, this will include taking an active role in team meetings.

- To communicate effectively with clients with potentially complex, sensitive or distressing circumstances. Patients may have communication, perceptual or cognitive/understanding difficulties.

- To maintain clear, accurate and concise patient records in line with departmental and professional standards.

- Maintain patient dignity and confidentiality at all times

Professional practice

- Develop and maintain clinical skills and knowledge necessary to deliver and evidence based service.

- With supervision and direction from Team leader take on increased responsibility recognising own limitations and seeking help appropriately

- Be competent in the use of all relevant Trust IT systems.

- Maintain regular use of emails to keep abreast of information disseminated in the Trust

- Conduct oneself in a professional manner and be a role model at all times

Leadership and management

- In conjunction with their manager, identify training needs of self.

- Report near misses and untoward incidents.

- Maintain and contribute to the development of standards of practice, conduct or decision making in conjunction with lead staff.

- Ensure a smart, professional image that enhances the public perception of the Trust and the professionalism of its staff is portrayed.

- Act as a role model by applying best practice in motivating staff to drive improvements

- Under the direction of lead Midwife contribute to service development using quality improvement methodology.

Education and training

- To consolidate and learn new skills and competencies

- To support lead in providing training and education to midwifery staff

- Undertake all mandatory training

- Demonstrate a commitment to research-based practice and clinical excellence and play and active part in the introduction of research-based change to improve patient centred care.

Improving quality and developing practice

- Comply with requirements to register and identify own learning needs and ensuring own professional development is maintained by keeping up to date with practice developments.

- With support from your lead be involved in interpreting and understanding Audit data to conduct improvement initiatives.

- Develop and share own clinical knowledge with other members of the wider clinical team both locally and nationally.

- Engage in clinical supervision

- Understand and contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/ protocols/ guidelines.

- Openly question and challenge practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient care are continually evaluated and improved.

- Undertake a QI project.