Community Midwifery Deputy Team Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

Communication and Team working

To effectively communicate complicated and sensitive information to women, their families and members of a multi-disciplinary team.

Adhere to and encourage others to utilise appropriate NMC and local standards for record keeping and all written documentation ensuring client and colleague confidentiality at all times.

Deal appropriately with positive and negative feedback from women, recognising the wider implications for the team.

Ensure changes are implemented based on feedback and learning lessons.

Work as a supportive team member to develop a working environment that encourages team working amongst staff.

Identify and minimise interpersonal conflicts that may affect team or individual performance.

Provide cover for colleagues as necessary, including out of hours cover on a rotational basis, ensuring appropriate liaison to maintain continuity of care.

Able to demonstrate effective multi-disciplinary team working skills and abilities to ensure agreed objectives are achieved.

Utilises others to address challenges within the working team.

Liaise, communicate and work in partnership with a variety of multi-agency teams

Contribute to the performance management of community midwifery by ensuring data collection and audit information is submitted in a timely manner.

Have an awareness of when to escalate concerns to the team manager

Clinical Care

Provide evidence based midwifery care to women and their babies with the responsibility for assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.

Able to manage effectively all aspects of caseload management and administration

Working in partnership with women and their partners, offer opportunities for them to make well informed decisions about their care throughout pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.

Able to implement changes in midwifery practice to improve health outcomes for mothers and their babies.

To work autonomously within guidelines, policies and procedures and spheres of professional practice when carrying out midwifery care. Contribute to their development, implementation and evaluation.

Work within Nottingham City Safeguarding Childrens Board procedures at all times. Know how to record and share information and understand the differences between information sharing on individual, organisational and professional levels.

Utilise multi-agency frameworks and child protection assessment processes including the use of the common assessment framework.

Work in partnership with other agencies to provide effective parent education programmes.

Able to manage effectively expectations of women and their families.

Prescribe medication within your scope of competence, in accordance with legislation, national and local guidelines, when registered as a Non-Medical Prescriber on the relevant professional register.

Undertake examination of the newborn within your scope of competence.

Personal and professional conduct

Maintain professional competence and knowledge through appraisal, statutory supervision, training and reflective practice in accordance with Nottingham City

PCT and NMC requirements.

Ensure awareness and adherence to PCT Policies and Procedures including Health and Safety legislation, administration and storage of drugs, clinical incident reporting, infection control and data protection.

Resource/Change Management

Working with the team managers and deputies to ensure effective use of resources e.g. staff, equipment, and time.

Proactively involved in innovation and implementation of change.

Encourage staff to be involved in service changes and developments using processes defined within the directorate.

Participating in the development of standard operating procedures and guidelines.

Education/ Research

Under go mandatory training relevant to safe midwifery practice e.g. Managing obstetric emergencies.

Provide leadership, support and preceptorship to other staff as required.

Identify and evaluate new ways of improving performance and implementing

evidence-based care for women.

Teach both registered and non-registered staff and act as practice assessor/supervisor to student midwives completing appropriate documentation as necessary.

Contribute to induction programmes for new staff, acting as a preceptor to assist in their orientation and integration into the team.

Participate in the evaluation of education programmes offered. Become involved in local training and development programmes as appropriate.

Monitor and maintain quality and effectiveness of midwifery practice through implementing evidence based practice and by participating in clinical audit, patient satisfaction surveys and research/trials as required to meet the needs of the service and to improve womens care.

Involvement in identifying opportunities for staff to access appropriate learning opportunities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered and practising midwife

Desirable

• Completed the Practice supervisors / assessors course

Experience

Essential

• Experience in dealing with safeguarding issues
• Evidence of Team Working
• Experience of working with vulnerable families.

Desirable

• Evidence of working in a community setting
• Confident in lone working

Communication

Essential

• Knowledge and experience of different IT systems
• Evidence of multidisciplinary team working

Desirable

• Evidence of Audit and research
• Has experience of using Systm1 and Medway

Planning and organisation skil

Essential

• Able to respond, prioritise and analyse complex problems or situation.
• Can respond to planned and unplanned situations and take the lead in dealing with emergencies
• Must be flexible to move geographic bases across the service as required.
• Able to prioritise and has effective time management skills

Other

Essential

• Current UK driving licence and sole use of a car

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

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

Community Midwifery

Sherwood Rise Health Centre

Nottingham

NG7 7AD

Employer's website

https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)