Job summary
Are you a dynamic and experienced midwife looking to take the lead in ensuring safe and effective maternity care?
We are seeking a highly motivatedMaternity Flow and Capacity Midwife to join our team in a shift-based role that is central to maintaining operational flow and patient safety across the Trust. In this leadership position, you will play a vital role in coordinating the Trust's activity on a shift-to-shift basis, focusing on both acute and elective maternity admissions. Your responsibilities will include ensuring efficient service user flow, optimising bed utilisation through the coordination of admissions, transfers, and discharges, and acting as a senior midwifery lead during out-of-hours periods.You will provide clinical operational support to all on-site staff, responding to security and clinical incidents, escalating concerns to appropriate on-call personnel as needed.
We are looking for a Registered Midwife with strong leadership skills, and a sound understanding of clinical coordination and bed management. If you are organised, decisive, and passionate about high-quality maternity care, this is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact. Join us and be part of a supportive and forward-thinking team dedicated to delivering exceptional outcomes for mothers and babies across the Trust.
Main duties of the job
All duties of the role are outlined in the job description and person specification. Please ensure that this has been read before submitting an application.
About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered midwife - degree
- All around midwifery experience
- Post registration education
Knowledge
Essential
- Recent and extensive experience in maternity, to include shift leading/managing staff
- Evidence of recent CPD
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential
- Able to make autonomous operational decisions concerning patient activity, bed management, patient acuity, staff management and site management
- Able to balance competing priorities, delegating and escalating when appropriate.
- Able to act as senior midwife leader during 'out-of-hours' periods to midwives working in all areas, and provide line-management support to all other staff groups present
Specialist Knowledge and Personal skills
Essential
- Effective time management and demonstrates leadership qualities.
- Ability to triage need for medical assistance, and prioritise the deployment of midwifery and Junior Medical Staff
- Able to undertake project/service improvement work
- To provide pastoral support to staff when required and support staff through listening to their needs and facilitating solutions
- Able to manage emotive situations, including difficult conversations with patients, families and staff
- Able to respond calmly to clinical or site emergencies, including major incidents
- Able to work within a system that provides a 24 hour 7 day a week service.
- Able to use Microsoft Outlook, Intranet and Internet based packages
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered midwife - degree
- All around midwifery experience
- Post registration education
Knowledge
Essential
- Recent and extensive experience in maternity, to include shift leading/managing staff
- Evidence of recent CPD
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential
- Able to make autonomous operational decisions concerning patient activity, bed management, patient acuity, staff management and site management
- Able to balance competing priorities, delegating and escalating when appropriate.
- Able to act as senior midwife leader during 'out-of-hours' periods to midwives working in all areas, and provide line-management support to all other staff groups present
Specialist Knowledge and Personal skills
Essential
- Effective time management and demonstrates leadership qualities.
- Ability to triage need for medical assistance, and prioritise the deployment of midwifery and Junior Medical Staff
- Able to undertake project/service improvement work
- To provide pastoral support to staff when required and support staff through listening to their needs and facilitating solutions
- Able to manage emotive situations, including difficult conversations with patients, families and staff
- Able to respond calmly to clinical or site emergencies, including major incidents
- Able to work within a system that provides a 24 hour 7 day a week service.
- Able to use Microsoft Outlook, Intranet and Internet based packages
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.
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).
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.
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
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Birmingham Women's Hospital
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
B15 2TG
Employer's website
https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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