Job overview

To lead on the development and delivery of high-quality midwifery services in line with professional and government policy, with a particular focus on teenage pregnancy.

To develop the role of the Specialist Midwife for Teenage Pregnant Women, proactively generating practice innovation and demonstrating expert knowledge and skills that are underpinned by evidence-based practice.

To promote health and social well-being, contributing to the reduction in health inequality through the provision of a range of health promotion, education and social care advice for young people and their families.

Main duties of the job

To be the clinical lead for Teenage Pregnancy (women and girls aged under 20 at booking). 

To establish specialist antenatal care and parent education programme to meet the needs of teenage pregnant women and their families

To develop and be responsible for the agreed care pathway and guidelines for Teenage Pregnancy

To improve midwifery responses to teenage pregnant women by raising awareness of teenage pregnancy issues amongst acute and community staff.

To present annual reports on specialist Teenage Pregnancy service.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see the ‘Croeso Candidate’ booklet below.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family.  Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.