Alison Summerville

For the past six years I have been the Clinical Midwife Specialist 2 , Parenting Education for John Hunter Hospital, relieving Clinical Midwife Consultant when required in the last 4 years. I have a passion for enhancing the maternity health care experience for women and families through education and supporting a parenting education service that provides relevant evidenced based resources to meet the needs and improve social determinants for women and families accessing the service. Through effective leadership, developing relationships and management roles, I have a proven to foster open communication and collaborative relationships with stakeholders and develop practices to enhance the health care experience for staff, women and families. I am committed to providing and upholding the highest standards of care and continuously seek professional opportunities to stay at the forefront of improving the maternity experience for women and families. I am organised and dependable, successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Acting Clinical Midwife Consultant Parenting Education

October 2023 to current

HNELHD, John Hunter Hospital, Maternity and Gynaecology Service

This diverse role has two key responsibilities – 

Management  of the Parenting Education Service, John Hunter Hospital 

• Managing a small core team and a larger team of 24 Sessional Parenting Educators.
• Responsibilities include, utilising the excellence framework, staff management, WH&S and meeting the educational needs of maternity inpatients
• Participate in quality improvement activities to improve service provision, health outcomes and the client experience

Consultancy and leadership, Parenting Education at JHH and across HNELHD 13 maternity sites. 

• Maintain the provision of quality, responsive and client-centred parenting education in hospital and community settings
• Create, develop and lead innovative models of parenting education programs, including curriculum, lesson planning development
• Develop, implement, and evaluate professional development programs related to leading Parenting Education groups for Midwives and other Health care professionals across HNELHD
• Support Maternity Units across HNELHD to implement and maintain parenting education programs

Clinical Midwife Specialist 2, Parenting Education Coordinator 

2017 to current

John Hunter Hospital, Maternity and Gynaecology Service

• Coordination and organisation of Birth and Parenting classes, including rostering, maintenance of equipment, maintaining excellent communication channels with educators and assist with administration services
• Collaborating communicating with maternity care providers in providing safe, relevant, evidenced based education to all women accessing maternity at JHH. This includes multicultural health, Aboriginal and Maternal Health services and women with special needs
• Skilled and knowledge of many electronic management and data systems, some specific to parenting education, reviewing data and evaluations to support and improve practice.
• Supporting, facilitating and providing education for antenatal inpatients
• Using National Standards 2 guidelines to review and develop consumer publications.

Relief Midwifery manager 

High risk Midwifery team, Maternity and Gynaecology Outpatients and Antenatal and Gynaecology ward

John Hunter Hospital

2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020

• Developed trusting relationships with clinical staff, management and patients.
• Maintaining, documenting and reporting records, data bases, audits
• Problem solving staffing issues and recruitment of staff
• Participating in hospital services meetings
• Maintaining a unit budget and cost of perishable, clinical, medical and staffing costs.
• Investigating , reporting and actioning incidents, to lead to a service improvement

Midwifery Educator

2022 to 2023

HNELHD Population Health

• Developed resources and implementing education to maternity care providers
• Familiarisation with government policies, guidelines and strategic plans and frameworks to assist in implementing education of maternal health initiatives and sustainability of the education
• Participating in team meetings and collaboration around providing education to be used in academic research published articles.
• Understanding of consumer involvement, project planning, cultural inclusion and economic analysis to implement best practice and sustainable education

Sessional Parenting and Birth Educator

1997 to current

John Hunter Hospital

• Conducting educational sessions, both face to face and virtually, to expectant parents supporting preparation for childbirth and journey to parenthood up to 100 hours a year using curriculum and lesson plans to guide me.
• Mentoring new educators and students
• Guided by policies and guidelines and using the CAPEA competency standards for childbirth and early parenting educators.
• Show flexibility and proficiency in methods and trouble shooting delivery of sessions and classes

Project Lead, Redesign project Antenatal care-shifting the focus

2017 to 2018

John Hunter Hospital

• Commitment to the project, completing all deliverables and requirements
• Leading team and steering committee meetings
• Liaising and engaging stakeholders to develop a large network of influencing stakeholders
• Developing and implementing a sustainable change in antenatal care to improve the way antenatal care is delivered and experienced by women and caregivers using the AIM and redesign methodology to successfully implement change
• Working in a small project team, collaborating supporting and identifying each others strengths.

Clinical Midwife Specialist

1998 to 2017

John Hunter Hospital

• Throughout this period, working across all areas in Maternity and Gynaecology at JHH. Including Birthing suite, Maternal Fetal Medicine, M3T high risk midwifery team.
• Developing expert clinical and management skills in all facets of a woman's pregnancy and birth journey, which included education, sensitivity, confidentiality and co ordination of multi disciplinary teams to provide pregnancy and birth care.
• Working as a clinical expert, team leader and mentor, sharing knowledge to all staff.

Quality Improvement

2023: Review of MOMS and Parenting Education antenatal referral process. Lead for review collaborating with multicultural health officer, midwives in ANC to review and develop an efficient referral pathway to both services. MOMS program no longer exists in its current format. Building on current referral process for ease of referral.

Projects - 2017 : Parenting Education - A Service Reset. Team member

An Essentials of Care multi-pronged project, aimed at increasing client engagement and reinvigorating the Parenting Education Service.  The project involved: - Development of a short film on Parenting Education Services,  Introduction a new education program- CalmBirth, Redevelopment of HNELHD 'Having a Baby' consumer webpages  Utilisation of the HNELHD social media platforms Development of an online Virtual Tour of the JHH Maternity Service. 

2017 Project  Lead, Antenatal care-shifting the focus. Implementing a service change to the way antenatal care is delivered to women. Using transitional research to sustain the change and improve outcomes for women and babies.

National Standard 2

Consumers: actively engage in Consumer Recruitment and onboarding. Review current and future consumer publications

Liaising with stakeholders to maintain and  make maternity webpages specific to each maternity site.,

Governance

Development and review District wide guidelines.

Risk management: Utilisation of QARS, QIDS  and IMMS  to identify gaps, Service non-compliance and instigate measures to address issues. For example patient falls, third and fourth degree tears, infant safe sleeping.   Use of MAM's, bi-monthly team meetings, PDR's and professional development activities for staff.

Collaborated with NSW e health to review TEAMS platform as a tool for delivering birth and parenting education

Educational

COVID - 19 Pandemic. Member of the team for the introduction of online Parenting Education Programs three days after lockdown

Certified CAPEA Educator and  working towards trainer certification. 

Conference committee member for the National Parenting Education Conference, delivered over  2.5 days via a hybrid virtual model during COVID lockdown.  

Facilitate regular staff in-service's communicating and educating on practice change and what tools the service has to support women and families with pregnancy and birth outcomes.

• Chair: NSW Pregnancy, Birth and Early Parenting Educators Network
• Member: NSW Nurses and Midwives Association
• Member: Childbirth and Parenting Educators of Australia (CAPEA)

In my current  Acting CMC position:

• Member NSW Clinical Midwife Consultant Network
• Chair: HNELHD Parenting Educators Network
• NSW Nurses and Midwives Association

Nov 2023           HNELHD: Educators and Consultant workshop

August 2023      JHH; Active Birth Workshop-assisted with the running

June 2023           Maternal Health Initiative antenatal Implementation 

July 2023            Review of consumer factsheets

March 2023        Health Ability VIC: Applying a Gender equality Lens 

                           to Childbirth and Parenting Education training

October 2022    CAPEA Biennial Conference: Riding the wave of change

October  2020   CAPEA Biennial Conference: Revitalising Parenting Education 

                            (as member of organising committee)  Newcastle NSW

2013                    Gottman Bringing Baby Home Educator

Full list of professional development inservice and courses available on request

Ms Nicole Bennett

Service Manager

JHH Maternity and Gynaecology

0249214388/0407234354

Ms Jane Shields

Manger

Clinical Governance

HNELHD

0423911774