Professional Midwifery Advocate

As part of our commitment to supporting staff and strengthening maternity services ahead of the Independent Maternity Review, we are establishing a new Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) Team across University Hospitals Sussex. We are recruiting PMAs across UHSussex, with one post aligned to each site: Princess Royal Hospital (PRH), Royal Sussex County Hospital (RSCH), Worthing Hospital (WH) and St Richard's Hospital (SRH). Each PMA will have a designated site base while working collaboratively across the Trust under the leadership of the Professional Perinatal Advocate (PPA) Lead, delivering a consistent restorative approach across maternity and neonatal services. These newly created roles will provide visible support in clinical areas through restorative conversations, hot debriefs, real-time support and compassionate leadership, helping colleagues navigate a period of learning, transformation and cultural development. Successful candidates will strengthen Professional Midwifery Advocacy through case management, professional development, training and embedding best practice within the A-EQUIP framework. The PMA team will help ensure accessible advocacy support, promoting staff wellbeing, learning, service improvement and a resilient workforce. These three-year fixed-term opportunities offer experienced PMAs the chance to develop their leadership, quality improvement, workforce development and strategic influence. Participation in the Manager on Call rota is required.

• Delivering and facilitating Restorative Clinical Supervision
• Supporting colleagues through complex cases, incidents, Coroner's inquests and high-profile reviews
• Providing visible clinical support and restorative leadership within clinical areas
• Supporting trainee PMAs and newly qualified PMAs
• Developing and strengthening the Trust-wide PMA/PNA network
• Leading and contributing to Quality Improvement initiatives
• Supporting workforce wellbeing, retention and engagement
• Collecting evidence and demonstrating the impact and value of Professional Midwifery Advocacy across the organisation
• Promoting a restorative culture that extends across maternity, neonatal, medical and support worker teams Candidate Pack https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/resources/candidate-information-pack/ For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rosie Jennings Job title: Perinatal Workforce Matron Email address: rosie.jennings@nhs.net Telephone number: 01273 696955 Please do get in touch with Rosie via email (rosie.jennings@nhs.net) if you would like to discuss the role further.