Deputy Senior Midwife

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Deputy Senior Midwife based in the Antenatal Clinic of Queens Hospital, Burton. This is a development opportunity, working alongside the Senior Midwife, assisting with the day to day running of the busy clinic, providing support to clinic staff and assisting the Senior Midwife with managerial tasks, deputising for her in her absence.

Working alongside the Senior Midwife for Antenatal Clinic, you will work clinically to provide high quality care to those accessing the service and work effectively as part of the multidisciplinary team to ensure a positive patient experience. You will assist with the day to day running of the clinic, taking charge in the absence of the Senior Midwife and access opportunities to develop your management and leadership skills.

Main duties of the job

As a Deputy Senior Midwife, you will support the Senior Midwife to take responsibility in ensuring women, babies and families receive safe, clinically effective, women centred care across the whole maternity care pathway. You will lead by example, offer midwifery clinical advice, operationally support and deputise for the senior midwife to manage teams and services ensuring the delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate midwifery care. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver care to women and babies within acute or community clinical environments whose needs are complex. You will work flexibly across the service in supporting the delivery of midwifery care, using a range of service models, including continuity of carer. Deputy Senior Midwives provide clinical and professional midwifery leadership and are accountable for the women, babies, public and staff experience. This will be in line with local, Trust wide and national policies, procedures, values and behaviours. The expectation of this role is that you will be supported to have the skills to be the operational lead for the area to enable the Senior Midwife to work a clinical shift and this will be structured to support each individual area. You will also deputise for the Senior Midwife during periods of absence.

Closing date of applications: 1 January 2025

Interview date: 14 January 2025

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queens Hospital Burton

Belvedere Road

Burton-on-Trent

DE13 0RB

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queens Hospital Burton

Belvedere Road

Burton-on-Trent

DE13 0RB

Employer's website

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

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