The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Maternity Triage and day assessment unit manager

The closing date is 13 August 2025

Job summary

At PAHT, we work with our service users to offer personalised care grounded in kindness and compassion. We are passionate about ensuring women and families have a positive experience each and every time they attend maternity services. The primary aim of the Triage and Day Assessment Unit (DAU) manager is to ensure that a high-quality service is provided to women, people and their families.

You will provide compassionate and effective leadership, clinical expertise, and positive role modelling to your team, empowering them to be innovative. The environment you create will facilitate excellent standards of safe, personalised and evidence-based care in partnership with the multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the operational management of clinical service delivery at ward level for maternity triage and DAU and have responsibility for the effective and efficient operational management of the service within allocated resources.

You will organise others in their actions and set priorities, objectives and goals within their sphere of responsibility. This includes performance management of both the activity and members of the Maternity Triage and DAU team. You will be accountable for the quality, delivery and monitoring of robust infection control measures, midwifery standards and women's experience indicators within all areas of the service

About us

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Details

Date posted

30 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year Per Annum plus 5% High Cost Area Supplement

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

292-7377159-CHWS

Job locations

Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job description and person specification for the full job details. This is available to download at any time.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job description and person specification for the full job details. This is available to download at any time.

Person Specification

Education and qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Midwife with recent extensive midwifery experience

Desirable

  • ALSO/ Prompt/NLS course

Experience

Essential

  • Recent experience encompassing a wide range of midwifery practice
  • Supporting others to provide personalised care

Skills and knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to function as a member of a multidisciplinary team, promote high standard of clinical practice, act as a role model
  • Ability to initiate, evaluate and sustain change

Personal qualities

Essential

  • Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to women, their families and staff, overcoming any barriers to understanding, providing support in distressing and emotional times, whilst facilitating an environment of openness, honesty and trust.
Person Specification

Education and qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Midwife with recent extensive midwifery experience

Desirable

  • ALSO/ Prompt/NLS course

Experience

Essential

  • Recent experience encompassing a wide range of midwifery practice
  • Supporting others to provide personalised care

Skills and knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to function as a member of a multidisciplinary team, promote high standard of clinical practice, act as a role model
  • Ability to initiate, evaluate and sustain change

Personal qualities

Essential

  • Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to women, their families and staff, overcoming any barriers to understanding, providing support in distressing and emotional times, whilst facilitating an environment of openness, honesty and trust.

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).

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.

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

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


Employer's website

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


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Out patient Matron

Jenna Gould

Jenna.gould@nhs.net

01279978989

Details

Date posted

30 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year Per Annum plus 5% High Cost Area Supplement

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

292-7377159-CHWS

Job locations

Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


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