Midwifery Team Leader/ Deputy Matron- Birth Centre

Job overview

Midwifery Team Leader

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced midwife to join our Midwifery Led Unit ( Birth Centre)) as a team leader.

We look after a diverse population where women/birthing people and their families are treated as individuals providing personalised care.

We are at the forefront of innovation, this includes partners staying overnight, enhanced recovery, and midwifery led induction of labour and normalising birth.

We provide a first class service, which is reflected in the number of positive compliments received from our satisfied service users.

We have a beautiful Birth Centre with four pools and our Labour Ward has two birthing pools and telemetry to encourage normality.

This role is Monday- Friday , 7.5 hours.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will lead the Birth Centre team, as well as participating in the Flow Coordinator rota. They will work alongside the current Birth Centre Team leader who is reducing their working hours. Management of the staff providing midwifery led intrapartum care, along with innovative leadership is expected. Please see job description for further description of duties.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details. Management of the staff providing midwifery led intrapartum care, along with innovative leadership is expected.

Please see job description for further description of duties.

Person specification

education/qualifications

Essential criteria

Registered Midwife and live on the register

Degree/Diploma in Midwifery

Evidence of professional accountability via professional portfolio

knowledge & experience

Essential criteria

Have minimum 3 years as a Band 6 within midwifery

Experience in working in areas of all midwifery practice

Champion for midwifery led care

Provide evidence of continuous personal and professional development

Desirable criteria

Experience of participating in clinical governance initiatives

Experience of change management

Skills & abilities

Essential criteria

Experience and evidence to be able to lead, manage and supervise staff, delegating work appropriately and develop a team and act as a role model

Experience and evidence to demonstrate ability to influence and manage change, including the promotion of evidence based practice

Evidence and experience in setting and monitoring standards of care

Must be able to practice in all areas in accordance with the Midwives rules and code of conduct

Desirable criteria

Experience of participating in clinical governance initiatives.

Experience of change management

Audit Experience

personal qualities

Essential criteria

Commitment to the organisation

Excellent communication skills

Demonstrate effective interpersonal and communication skills within difficult or challenging circumstances

Demonstrate ability to work effectively and collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Evidence of reliability and good time management and punctuality

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.

Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.

Participate in required training and supervision.

Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.