Job summary
The Safeguarding Midwifery Practitioner provides specialist leadership and support for safeguarding within maternity services across the Humber Health Partnership.
Working closely with the Safeguarding Children Team, the post holder supports the Named Midwife for Safeguarding Children in delivering statutory responsibilities and ensuring safe, high-quality care for women, babies and families.
Main duties of the job
The role includes offering expert safeguarding advice to maternity staff, supporting complex decision-making in child protection cases, preparing detailed reports, contributing to pre-birth panels, and chairing safeguarding meetings while keeping the unborn child central to all decisions.
The practitioner delivers safeguarding supervision to promote reflective, evidence-based practice and supports compliance with training standards. They contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement, ensuring adherence to safeguarding assurance processes and CQC requirements.
Working collaboratively with leadership teams and multi-agency partners, the post holder remains visible and accessible across hospital and community settings. The role requires significant safeguarding expertise, strong leadership and communication skills, and the ability to manage sensitive information while influencing practice across professional boundaries.
About us
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
T For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
We welcome applications from candidates who require Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship to work in the UK, and these will be considered alongside all other applications in line with our commitment to equality and inclusion.
Applicants can determine their potential eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship by reviewing the Skilled Worker Visa criteria set out by UKVI on the gov.uk website.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife with current UK NMC registration
- PROMPT Trained and up to date
- Level 3 safeguarding training
- Safeguarding supervisor
Desirable
- Teaching qualification
- Leadership / management qualification
- Masters degree or working towards
Knowledge Training and experience
Essential
- Band 6 or above with 3 years' experience
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Proven ability to prioritise own workload and meet deadlines
Desirable
- Experience of teaching/presenting
Communication and interpersonal skills
Essential
- Competent in IT, able to produce detailed and accurate reports and use spreadsheets
- Able to work independently and autonomously as well as part of a wider multidisciplinary team
- Ability to prioritise care associated with changing environment/patient demands
Desirable
- Leadership and management skills
Special attributes and other
Essential
- Shows motivation in developing new skills
- Flexible and reliable
- Good timekeeper
- Ability to work from both hospital sites as required to meet the demands of the service. Has UK driving licence and is responsible for own transport to work , from work and in-between site for work
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
HRI
Anlaby Road
Hull
HU3 2JZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website
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