Labour Ward Co-ordinator

Job summary

Are you an experienced midwife with a passion to promote a holistic approach to maternity care, provide effective management and leadership? This is an opportunity to join our growing and supportive leadership team at the Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on a permanent basis. You will work closely with the Maternity Matron and consultant team and also provide clinical and managerial leadership. If you share our passion, drive and values in ensuring women and birthing people and their families receive quality and compassionate care, then we would like to hear from you. If you would like some further information please contact Gemma Day Maternity Matron, by email gemma.day2@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

You will work as an autonomous clinical midwife and advice staff working in the clinical area, acting as an effective role model and leader.

The post holder will have responsibility for the efficient running of services developing and implementing of strategies to improve the health of women and children in line with the Public Health agenda. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring a high standard of clinical care is achieved by efficient and effective use of resources, liaising with other agencies, organising, and ensuring supervision of practice, and teaching of staff and students. You will actively seek service user and family feedback to enable learning and support change. Promoting excellence in midwifery practice you will act as a champion for safety, escalation and multi-disciplinary communication. As part of this role you will be expected to participate in the on call rota. You will be committed to reflective practice and ongoing learning.

About us

At the RUH we're proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.