Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 264-7703738-FAM
- Employer
- Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cross Site
- Town
- Kettering
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 Per Annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Professional Midwifery Advocate
Band 8a
Job overview
The Lead PMA will provide visible leadership and expert support within maternity services, ensuring the implementation of the A-EQUIP model, a continuous quality improvement framework designed to enhance care for women and babies, build midwives’ resilience, and support professional development and revalidation.
We are looking for someone with creativity and innovation who can evidence how and what they have achieved to support service user and staff experience.
Here at UHN we value our workforce and their wellbeing, as the lead PMA you will continuously drive and develop support services available to our staff to maximise their wellbeing at work and focus on retention of their valued experience.
In return we will support flexible working, personal and professional development to achieve your ambitions for job satisfaction. At UHN we foster a culture of inclusivity, safety and continuous learning with a visible and accessible senior leadership team.
Main duties of the job
The Lead PMA will:
· Be responsible for embedding the A-EQUIP model across the service so that quality improvement becomes part of everyday practice.
· Implement the four functions of A-EQUIP
· Act as a senior advocate for midwives, promoting safe, high-quality, person-centered maternity care.
· Support midwives through Restorative Clinical Supervision (RCS) and facilitate annual PMA meetings for all midwives.
· Provide strategic input into maternity governance and quality assurance systems.
· Work closely with Heads of Midwifery, Consultant Midwives, and multidisciplinary teams.
· Work with service users, HEIs, and regional maternity networks.
· Promote compassionate care and staff wellbeing through structured support mechanisms
In line with our ‘UHN Quality Strategy’ and ‘UHN Health and Wellbeing and We Belong Strategy’ we are looking for an accomplished Professional Midwifery Advocate who shares our values to lead the PMA service across UHN.
Working for our organisation
Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close adverts once we have received sufficient applications
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is on an exciting journey with all of our divisions committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN). As part of this collaborative approach, there may be a requirement for you to work across both the Kettering and Northampton hospital sites, depending on the needs of the service.
Our Excellence Values
- Compassion
- Accountability
- Respect
- Integrity
- Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across UHN and help to unleash everyone's full potential.
UHN encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for UHN.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the Shortlisting Criteria section of the document.
Person specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- Registered midwife
- Demonstrable well developed leadership skills
- Professional credibility with senior colleagues, and Midwives
- European computer driving license (ECDL) or equivalent experience
- A thorough understanding of The Code (NMC 2015)
- Has been appointed as a Professional Midwifery advocate X Educated to MSc level
Desirable criteria
- Criteria that can be acquired once in employment or a means to employ the most suitable candidates
- Educated to MSc Level
Skills
Essential criteria
- Possession of well developed negotiation, networking and communication skills
- Knowledge of issues of confidentiality and demonstrate appropriateness in dealing with sensitive personal, patient and corporate information
- Experience of working as part of a team and can demonstrate principles of effective team working
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kerry Williams
- Job title
- Head of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01536 491585
- Additional information
Angela Boyce (She/Her)
Head of Perinatal Clinical Governance & Quality Improvement
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 07484552692
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