Job summary
County Durham and Darlington are in the exciting position to
recruit to a Deputy of Head of Midwifery position. This role will compliment
the existing senior perinatal leadership team and together we will lead,
manage, support and drive high standards of maternity care.
The service has built on the maternity standards of care
provided to our local women, birthing people and their families. We deliver
care with a fully established midwifery workforce and a developing midwifery
support worker team and enthusastic medical collegues.
The team work within a perinatal model of care and recent
achievements have included launching BSOTs successfully across both acute sites.
This is a great opportunity to be supported in
your career development
Main duties of the job
The Deputy Head of Midwifery Role
is key to supporting the operational management of the maternity services
reporting into the Head of Midwifery and being professionally reportabler to
the Director of Midwifery.
The post holder will be an
enthusiastic, motived visble professional midwifery leader, supporting the Head
of Midwifery, Matrons and Clinical Leads to deliver high standards of clinical
care.
The Deputy Head of Midwifery will
support, embed and mangage performance targets including the operational
targets of effective rostering, recruitment and retention, resource management
and the assurance of high standards of clinical care through regular service
assurance and clinical audit.
The Deputy Head of Midwifery will
direct manage the matrons and specialist midwives.
About us
If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager
You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks
We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.
We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented
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sponsorship (we will only consider sponsorship if you meet this criteria and
have a current visa expiring within 3 months)
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role is key in the operational
delivery of the maternity services. This will include ensuring high standards
of midwifery care by being a role model as a senior midwife within the Trust.
The Deputy Head of Midwifery will have the oversight of the workforce, with the
management of the budgets alongside the matrons and ward managers, recruitment and
retention and driving a positive culture within the service.
The role will ensure service
improvements through actively contributing to KPIs/ CQUINS and specific local
service developments. Th Deputy Head of
Midwifery will need a robust working knowledge of the CQC Key lines of Enquire
and recommentaions from current National Drivers of Maternity Services,
benchmarking local outcomes and processes and then aligning seive improvement
to meet the national standards of hight quality maternity care.
Good clinical governance and the management of risk is a significant
element of the role in partnership with the Head of Midwifery. The role will
support the local and corporate patient safety team in the management of standards,
monitoring of care, incidents, compliants, clinical audit, national standards
of assurance regarding the maternity incentive scheme (MIS) and saving babies
lives (SBLs) and other requirements as they present.
This is an opportunity for a senior midwife to
develop and progress in their career whilst working within a progressive,
inclusive, passitionate and enthusiastic team that holds the families we care
for and staff within our teams at the heart of everything we do.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role is key in the operational
delivery of the maternity services. This will include ensuring high standards
of midwifery care by being a role model as a senior midwife within the Trust.
The Deputy Head of Midwifery will have the oversight of the workforce, with the
management of the budgets alongside the matrons and ward managers, recruitment and
retention and driving a positive culture within the service.
The role will ensure service
improvements through actively contributing to KPIs/ CQUINS and specific local
service developments. Th Deputy Head of
Midwifery will need a robust working knowledge of the CQC Key lines of Enquire
and recommentaions from current National Drivers of Maternity Services,
benchmarking local outcomes and processes and then aligning seive improvement
to meet the national standards of hight quality maternity care.
Good clinical governance and the management of risk is a significant
element of the role in partnership with the Head of Midwifery. The role will
support the local and corporate patient safety team in the management of standards,
monitoring of care, incidents, compliants, clinical audit, national standards
of assurance regarding the maternity incentive scheme (MIS) and saving babies
lives (SBLs) and other requirements as they present.
This is an opportunity for a senior midwife to
develop and progress in their career whilst working within a progressive,
inclusive, passitionate and enthusiastic team that holds the families we care
for and staff within our teams at the heart of everything we do.
Person Specification
Statutory Registration
Essential
- Registered Midwife with
- current NMC registration
Special Requirements
Essential
- Able to travel across Trust sites to meet
- the requirements of the post
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to a Degree Level in
- Midwifery
- Educated to masters level or
- equivalent qualification or level
- of experience
- Appropriate certified
- management course
- Leadership qualification, or a
- willingness to undertake as
- soon as reasonably possible
- upon starting in post
- Clinical expert in all areas of
- midwifery practice evidenced
- by CPD and demonstrated by
- senior experience within the
- midwifery profession
- Application Form & Interview
- senior experience within the
- midwifery profession
Desirable
- Professional Midwifery
- Advocate
- Certified incident investigation
- training
Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience at
- a senior level
- Experience of budget
- management and roster
- management
- Demonstrates leadership and
- engagement skills including
- the ability to inspire and
- innovate
- In-depth professional
- knowledge and experience
- from a range of midwifery
- disciplines
- Can problem solving including
- the ability to motivate and
- negotiate effectively
- Can develop, conduct, review
- and evaluate audit, write
- detailed reports and evidenced
- based documents
- Understanding of regulatory
- requirements i.e., CQC and NMC
- Skilled to work in all areas of
- midwifery as required
- Ability to debrief patients,
- relatives, carers and staff
- during stressful and emotional
- times or following an incident
- Deals regularly with adverse
- outcomes in unexpected
- situations, having a flexible
- attitude towards 24 hour cover
- Participates in on
- -call rota to ensure midwifery management cover
- Demonstrates wide knowledge
- of the public health agenda
- Expert knowledge and experience of the complexity of service delivery
Desirable
- Experience of developing and
- implementing governance
- frameworks to support service
- delivery and service change.
- Evidence of publications and
- networking within the service
Special Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to analyse complex
- clinical issues/problems,
- identify necessary action and
- make recommendations and
- follow these through.
- Has a good understanding of
- research and can demonstrate
- how research influences
- practice; develop a research
- aware culture
- Advanced decision
- -making skills
- Ability to demonstrate
- emotional leadership skills and
- apply to appropriate situations
- Excellent understanding of
- data collection/analysis, audit
- and evaluation
- uses of databases
- Ability to work under pressure
- across competing priorities
- Demonstrate excellent
- communication and
- interpersonal skills with staff
- and service users.
- Ambitious and will push self
- and colleagues to ensure
- delivery of high
- -quality care
- Evidence of teaching and
- assessing for all aspects of
- midwifery practice
Person Specification
Statutory Registration
Essential
- Registered Midwife with
- current NMC registration
Special Requirements
Essential
- Able to travel across Trust sites to meet
- the requirements of the post
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to a Degree Level in
- Midwifery
- Educated to masters level or
- equivalent qualification or level
- of experience
- Appropriate certified
- management course
- Leadership qualification, or a
- willingness to undertake as
- soon as reasonably possible
- upon starting in post
- Clinical expert in all areas of
- midwifery practice evidenced
- by CPD and demonstrated by
- senior experience within the
- midwifery profession
- Application Form & Interview
- senior experience within the
- midwifery profession
Desirable
- Professional Midwifery
- Advocate
- Certified incident investigation
- training
Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience at
- a senior level
- Experience of budget
- management and roster
- management
- Demonstrates leadership and
- engagement skills including
- the ability to inspire and
- innovate
- In-depth professional
- knowledge and experience
- from a range of midwifery
- disciplines
- Can problem solving including
- the ability to motivate and
- negotiate effectively
- Can develop, conduct, review
- and evaluate audit, write
- detailed reports and evidenced
- based documents
- Understanding of regulatory
- requirements i.e., CQC and NMC
- Skilled to work in all areas of
- midwifery as required
- Ability to debrief patients,
- relatives, carers and staff
- during stressful and emotional
- times or following an incident
- Deals regularly with adverse
- outcomes in unexpected
- situations, having a flexible
- attitude towards 24 hour cover
- Participates in on
- -call rota to ensure midwifery management cover
- Demonstrates wide knowledge
- of the public health agenda
- Expert knowledge and experience of the complexity of service delivery
Desirable
- Experience of developing and
- implementing governance
- frameworks to support service
- delivery and service change.
- Evidence of publications and
- networking within the service
Special Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to analyse complex
- clinical issues/problems,
- identify necessary action and
- make recommendations and
- follow these through.
- Has a good understanding of
- research and can demonstrate
- how research influences
- practice; develop a research
- aware culture
- Advanced decision
- -making skills
- Ability to demonstrate
- emotional leadership skills and
- apply to appropriate situations
- Excellent understanding of
- data collection/analysis, audit
- and evaluation
- uses of databases
- Ability to work under pressure
- across competing priorities
- Demonstrate excellent
- communication and
- interpersonal skills with staff
- and service users.
- Ambitious and will push self
- and colleagues to ensure
- delivery of high
- -quality care
- Evidence of teaching and
- assessing for all aspects of
- midwifery practice
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).
