Community Senior Midwife (Team Manager)

Job responsibilities

• The post holder is responsible for the effective leadership and management of a community midwifery team, and as part of a team of 8 community team managers, has shared operational management responsibility for the Freestanding Midwifery Unit (FMU) at Neath Port Talbot Hospital. They will monitor and maintain standards of professional practice, and will supervise, lead, direct and deploy the community team ensuring that standards of care are met.
• The post holder will plan and implement universal midwifery care, and care in partnership with the multidisciplinary team where additional care needs are identified. This will be achieved through effective caseload management and co-ordination, meeting safeguarding responsibilities for women with psycho-social vulnerabilities. Working with multi-professional and multiagency teams to ensure safe standards of care.
• To be an effective professional role model and advocate for women and midwives. The post holder will work as part of the senior midwifery team, contributing to the future development of community services through participation in quality improvement and development initiatives.
• To be responsible for ensuring; person and family centred care, safeguarding of adults and children, service quality, monitoring the community midwifery workload, effective workforce planning and use of resources and modernisation.
• The post holder will bring their team together around a shared vision in line with the Health Boards values and behaviour framework of caring for each other, working together and always improving.
• The post holder will work with the Community Midwifery Matron to ensure that the community midwifery workload and workforce is fit for purpose and practice through implementation of education plans, clinical skills training and continuous practice development.
• To participate in the community on-call rota.

The team at Swansea Bay understand that the foundations for positive health and well-being start with positive experiences in pregnancy, birth and the early days of childhood. With this in mind, the service is dedicated to delivering person-centred, safe and high quality care for mothers and babies throughout pregnancy, birth and immediately following birth.

Maternity services in Swansea Bay are organised across Singleton and Neath Port Talbot hospitals, with dedicated Birth centres in both locations, a Labour ward at Singleton hospital and support from highly skilled Community teams supporting antenatal, community based intrapartum and postnatal care.

The Health Board currently finds itself in an exciting position, with the ambition to transform Maternity Services for the region, and is looking to appoint into newly developed Community Team Manager Roles who can develop and oversee the delivery of a range of measures building upon safety, choice and support for population we serve. As senior midwives within community services, the roles will provide professional and clinical leadership to their teams, demonstrating high levels of compassion, trust and support, to promote a democratic and collaborative leadership style. These exciting roles are designed to harness midwifery specific skill and expertise and will be instrumental in the successful reestablishment of the Freestanding Midwifery Unit in Neath Port Talbot hospital.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife with active NMC Registration
• Educated to Degree level or equivalent relevant experience or evidence of post registration study
• Knowledge and understanding of current professional midwifery issues
• Knowledge of Safeguarding Adults/Children including the Social Services & Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, Wales Safeguarding Procedures 2019, Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse & Sexual Violence (Wales) Act 2015 Mental Health Act, 1983

Desirable

• Motivational interviewing training
• Leadership qualification
• PGCE
• Community PROMPT faculty member

Experience

Essential

• Substantial clinical midwifery experience in all settings
• Experience of delivering community intrapartum services within women's home and/or Freestanding Midwifery Unit
• Evidence of delivering compassionate, patient-focused and women-centred care and using service user engagement and feedback to improve services
• Evidence of recent commitment to continuous development of self and others

Desirable

• Experience of leading/managing community services and/or a Freestanding Midwifery Unit

Other

Essential

• Frequent travel between multiple Health Board sites (and occasional travel further afield)
• Ability to participate in Community On-Call rota and Contribute to a 24-hour rota, including night shifts in the FMU, pro-rata

Desirable

• Neonatal Life Support training (Resuscitation Council).

Aptitude and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to suture unsupervised
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills
• Work within the NMC Code
• Actively seek opportunities to continually develop oneself, consistent with the principles of lifelong learning and in line with the NMC continuous professional development requirement
• Generate, via PC, reports, databases and spreadsheets requiring keyboard skills
• Effective communication skills to all levels of staff
• Demonstrate diplomacy, empathy and neutrality
• Demonstrates clinical leadership skills
• Ability to apply polices & procedures, efficiently and safely to manage services
• Ability to initiate & support change and can demonstrate understanding of principles

Desirable

• Ability to speak Welsh
• Cannulation Skills
• Cannulation Trainer
• Able to undertake NIPE
• NALS trained
• NLS qualified instructor

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).