Lead Midwife (Labour Ward Coordinator)

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Job overview

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced Midwife to join the established labour ward team as a shift co-ordinator on our busy labour ward at Jessops.

We currently offering fixed term posts for a period of 12 months to cover maternity leave.

You will work within an established Labour Ward Team as shift coordinator and you will be responsible for the day to day management and clinical leadership of the midwifery team within labour ward and co-ordinate the safe evidenced based care of the women we care for.

Main Duties:

• Responsible for the day to day co-ordination of Labour Ward acting as the key point of contact for staff, members of the multidisciplinary team and service users
• Ensuring the 24hour provision of a high quality, effective midwifery service, providing leadership to staff and expert clinical midwifery advice.
• Manage midwifery and support staff and the clinical area to ensure the smooth running of the service.
• Work in partnership with women, and ensure the planning and implementation of individualised plans of care

• Promote high quality care, ensuring individual women’s needs and choices are assessed, care planned, implemented and evaluated regularly, maintain a safe and clean environment for staff and service users by ensuring compliance with legislation, polices, protocols including health and safety.
• Exercise judgement in assessing wide ranging and complex pregnancy and labour related issues. Ensure and promote options to enable the delivery of optimum women centred care.
• Communicate effectively with multi-disciplinary professionals and agencies, ensuring seamless care at a high standard.
• Act sensitively, confidentially and with empathy in demonstrating understanding of wide-ranging physical and emotional needs. Take the lead in managing contentious, sensitive and delicate issues with women, their relatives and staff.
• Maintain a safe and clean environment for staff and service users by ensuring compliance with legislation, polices, protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection, risk management and critical incident reporting.

Working for our organisation

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of a maximum of twelve months due to maternity leave of the substantive post holder. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts and statutory maternity provisions.

Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.

Please note this advertisement is for both full time and part time opportunities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person specification

Qualifications

• NMC Registration
• To have completed the national PEAP programme for practice supervisors or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998.
• Continuous Professional Development
• First degree or evidence of working towards one (demonstrating graduate attributes)

Experience

• Extensive Midwifery Experience in all areas
• Knowledge of current national guidelines, policies and initiatives such as NICE, the Confidential Enquiries and the National Maternity Review.
• Knowledge of clinical audit and effectiveness of systems
• Ability to lead, motivate and develop a professional team
• Ability to prioritise and work as a team member. Leadership skills.

• Clinical experience at Band 7 on Labour Ward including; extended clinical competence
• Academic courses relevant to role Leadership/management NLS NIPE Evidence of management experience Leadership course, postgraduate study
• Postgraduate study

Skills and Knowledge

• Excellent leadership skills
• Effective role model Compassionate and approachable Willing to work flexibly Positive, innovate, pro-active and resourceful
• Excellent mediation and negotiation skills Self-motivated and ability to motivate others
• Demonstrates attention to detail Ability to prioritise and work well under pressure.
• Ability to work inter-professionally and across institutional boundaries.
• Excellent performance management skills.
• Highly developed leadership skills with excellent interpersonal skills – ability to form positive relationships at all levels.
• Ability to manage complex workload under pressure and prioritise to meet deadlines

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Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered, please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position.

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