Job summary
If you are looking to work in an award winning, well-supported, friendly, dynamic, culturally astute and inclusive environment that puts women / birthing people at the centre of a high standard of care where the latest CQC report that rates us again as good, maintaining our good rating since 2017 and has now awarded us outstanding for leadership and have significant post registration experience, come and join us.
We are a large Maternity unit in the South East serving a diverse local population delivering over 7000 babies a year. We are looking for dynamic experienced Midwives to join our Band 7 team of delivery suite senior Midwives on the QEW site. We currently have vacancies for substantive staff.
Working at Queen Elizabeth, you will co-ordinate the day to day running of our Consultant led unit. You will be a motivated, organised and enthusiastic midwife, with excellent communication skills which you will use to facilitate safe, high quality care for women and their families.
Your extensive clinical skills will be further adapted / utilised to support colleagues and students in their provision of safe effective care and in aiding them to develop their skills. Your knowledge and experience will be vital in this role interacting with risk, clinical audit and training.
Main duties of the job
As a Delivery suite Coordinator you will be a frontline leader with management responsibility for the core services provided in a hospital setting.
You will be responsible for the management of resources, audit and quality monitoring, data collection, clinical leadership and deployment of staff.
You will endeavour to create an environment where the patient is central to all decision making and the delivery of high quality, safe and compassionate care which remains the primary objective.
You will be an expert resource to the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that all staff work in a professional manner and all registered staff are working as accountable practitioners.
You will be expected to demonstrate effective clinical leadership and role modelling, be able to inspire, motivate and empower others. This will require you to be highly visible and have an accessible approach to women, their families and staff.
This is a senior midwifery role within the organisation and there is an expectation that you will fully participate in the clinical and professional leadership of the department.
Further duties of your line management role will include regular appraisals, managing sickness and absence and encouraging personal and professional development of those you line manage.
About us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide leadership to midwifery and non-midwifery staff, ensuring effective management of the daily activity and flow within the maternity service. This will result in high standards of midwifery care, reduction in length of stay and will be responsive to individualised needs, thus increasing women and birthing people satisfaction.
You will be visible within the unit for staff and, by having a helicopter view of the unit be clinically aware of the needs of the service whilst ensuring staffing is deployed to ensure all areas are sufficiently covered to provide a high standard of care to women / birthing people.
You will have an overview of staff and staffing needs and liaise with the rota coordinator to ensure the unit complies with safe staffing requirements.
With the rota coordinator, you will ensure rotas are maintained and accurately reflect the availability of staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide leadership to midwifery and non-midwifery staff, ensuring effective management of the daily activity and flow within the maternity service. This will result in high standards of midwifery care, reduction in length of stay and will be responsive to individualised needs, thus increasing women and birthing people satisfaction.
You will be visible within the unit for staff and, by having a helicopter view of the unit be clinically aware of the needs of the service whilst ensuring staffing is deployed to ensure all areas are sufficiently covered to provide a high standard of care to women / birthing people.
You will have an overview of staff and staffing needs and liaise with the rota coordinator to ensure the unit complies with safe staffing requirements.
With the rota coordinator, you will ensure rotas are maintained and accurately reflect the availability of staff.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- 1st level Registered Midwife with current NMC Registration
- Degree level qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- Evidence of on-going professional development in a nursing field of practice
- Practice Assessor /Sign off mentorship course
Desirable
- Recognised leadership development training
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent Care of the Critically ill woman/birthing person course or working towards it
- Examination of the Newborn course or working towards it
Experience
Essential
- Relevant post qualification experience
- Significant post registration experience at Band 6, to include: oSupervisory experience and management of a nursing team oTeaching, mentoring and leadership experience within a clinical environment oExperience of working within a multidisciplinary team oEvidence of acting as a change agent and role model
- To have a broad experience of working at a senior clinical level and be able to demonstrate proven managerial and leadership skills.
- Evidence of involvement in the development of protocols and/or undertaking of clinical audit
- Significant specialist expertise underpinned by theory
Desirable
- Experience of effectively managing rosters
- People management skills including appointing and managing staff
- Experience of managing timescales for a delegated piece of work/project
Knowledge
Essential
- Understands the concepts of Clinical Governance and shared governance including evidence based practice and critical appraisal of research findings. o
- Demonstrates knowledge of effective risk management
- Knowledge of current NHS issues including performance targets, the modernisation agenda and patient experience
- Knowledge of professional issues including the NMC Code of Conduct, Compassion in Practice
- Understands and can demonstrate the principles of effective budgetary management
- Good knowledge of current Safeguarding practices
Desirable
- Experience as a Clinical Supervisor Involvement in clinical audit and/or research
- Experience of SI process and implementation and monitoring of action plans
- Experience of managing budgets or responsibility for elements of resource and financial managment
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written even where there may be barriers to understanding
- Ability to read, understand and disseminate information effectively
- Computer literate
- Able to lead, empower, motivate others and influence innovative practice and service development
- Ability to act professionally and appropriately in all settings
- Ability to demonstrate assertiveness, tact and diplomacy
- Proven ability to take responsibility for the management of the working environment
- Able to anticipate, forward plan and formulate and verbalise views
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
- Evidence of leadership skills
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Ability to use own initiative and meet deadlines
Desirable
- Teaching and Assessing skills Research/Audit skills
- Demonstrate involvement in Clinical Supervision
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Understanding of role in relation to wider national regional and Trust pressures and Trust objectives
- Creative and innovative thinker, adaptable and flexible
- Able to deal with difficult and complex situations and people resistant to change.
- Able to foster positive relationships with co-workers and work across professional and organisational boundaries
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- 1st level Registered Midwife with current NMC Registration
- Degree level qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- Evidence of on-going professional development in a nursing field of practice
- Practice Assessor /Sign off mentorship course
Desirable
- Recognised leadership development training
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent Care of the Critically ill woman/birthing person course or working towards it
- Examination of the Newborn course or working towards it
Experience
Essential
- Relevant post qualification experience
- Significant post registration experience at Band 6, to include: oSupervisory experience and management of a nursing team oTeaching, mentoring and leadership experience within a clinical environment oExperience of working within a multidisciplinary team oEvidence of acting as a change agent and role model
- To have a broad experience of working at a senior clinical level and be able to demonstrate proven managerial and leadership skills.
- Evidence of involvement in the development of protocols and/or undertaking of clinical audit
- Significant specialist expertise underpinned by theory
Desirable
- Experience of effectively managing rosters
- People management skills including appointing and managing staff
- Experience of managing timescales for a delegated piece of work/project
Knowledge
Essential
- Understands the concepts of Clinical Governance and shared governance including evidence based practice and critical appraisal of research findings. o
- Demonstrates knowledge of effective risk management
- Knowledge of current NHS issues including performance targets, the modernisation agenda and patient experience
- Knowledge of professional issues including the NMC Code of Conduct, Compassion in Practice
- Understands and can demonstrate the principles of effective budgetary management
- Good knowledge of current Safeguarding practices
Desirable
- Experience as a Clinical Supervisor Involvement in clinical audit and/or research
- Experience of SI process and implementation and monitoring of action plans
- Experience of managing budgets or responsibility for elements of resource and financial managment
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written even where there may be barriers to understanding
- Ability to read, understand and disseminate information effectively
- Computer literate
- Able to lead, empower, motivate others and influence innovative practice and service development
- Ability to act professionally and appropriately in all settings
- Ability to demonstrate assertiveness, tact and diplomacy
- Proven ability to take responsibility for the management of the working environment
- Able to anticipate, forward plan and formulate and verbalise views
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
- Evidence of leadership skills
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Ability to use own initiative and meet deadlines
Desirable
- Teaching and Assessing skills Research/Audit skills
- Demonstrate involvement in Clinical Supervision
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Understanding of role in relation to wider national regional and Trust pressures and Trust objectives
- Creative and innovative thinker, adaptable and flexible
- Able to deal with difficult and complex situations and people resistant to change.
- Able to foster positive relationships with co-workers and work across professional and organisational boundaries
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
