Community/Continuity team lead midwife - Willow team

Job summary

The Willow Community Midwives team has an opportunity available for an experienced community midwife to become our new team leader. You will provide midwifery care, coordinate and develop services provided to pregnant women and babies and provide effective leadership within the maternity team.

You will work collaboratively with the other multi-disciplinary team members and contribute to the education and the professional development of staff in the acute and primary care setting. You will be actively involved in client/family education, supporting midwives and GPs to provide on-going antenatal and postnatal care and planning care for clients. You will also take charge of auditing, monitoring and evaluating the service provided.

As a senior member of the team you should be able to demonstrate a supportive and flexible leadership approach and a pro-active, responsible, attitude so as to promote confidence in the team and the service. You will have designated responsibility for strategic work streams at divisional level providing leadership around the Quality and Safety and/or Workforce agendas

Main duties of the job

• Provide individualised, women centred care for women
• Provide continuity of care with emotional and psychological support during the antenatal and postnatal periods in the community. The trajectory is that this will also include intrapartum care when the team is able to move to a continuity model.
• Liaise appropriately with services to ensure safe and effective care is provided to women at the right place, and at the right time. Act as an advocate for women, whilst safeguarding her and her wider family and social group when required
• Provide high quality, evidence-based care and advice to women
• Enhance the woman's experience of care and ensure that the needs of the woman are placed at the centre of care
• Have an understanding of barriers that impact or inhibit women from accessing antenatal care
• Advocate for women in their choices surrounding pregnancy and birth
• Ensure safe and effective clinical practice ensuring knowledge, skills and competencies are current
• Act as a clinical expert to disseminate specialist skills and knowledge
• Share highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and high experience
• Act as a clinical expert to the team
• Manage the team with regard to sickness, roster, appraisal and education

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.

Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Princess Alexandra Hospital

Harlow

CM20 1QX

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Princess Alexandra Hospital

Harlow

CM20 1QX

Employer's website

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

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