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Community/Continuity team lead midwife - Willow team
Posted 2 days 3 hours ago by NHS
The Willow Community Midwives team has an opportunity available for an experienced community midwife to become our new team leader. You will provide midwifery care, coordinate and develop services for pregnant women and babies and provide effective leadership within the maternity team.
You will work collaboratively with multi disciplinary team members and contribute to the education and professional development of staff in the acute and primary care setting. You will be actively involved in client/family education, support midwives and GPs to provide ongoing antenatal and postnatal care and plan care for clients. You will also take charge of auditing, monitoring and evaluating the service provided.
As a senior member of the team you should be able to demonstrate a supportive and flexible leadership approach and a pro active, responsible attitude so as to promote confidence in the team and the service. You will have designated responsibility for strategic work streams at divisional level providing leadership around the Quality and Safety and/or Workforce agendas.
Main duties of the job- Provide individualised, women centred care for women
- Provide continuity of care with emotional and psychological support during the antenatal and postnatal periods in the community. The trajectory is that this will also include intrapartum care when the team is able to move to a continuity model.
- Liaise appropriately with services to ensure safe and effective care is provided to women at the right place, and at the right time. Act as an advocate for women, whilst safeguarding her and her wider family and social group when required.
- Provide high quality, evidence based care and advice to women.
- Enhance the woman's experience of care and ensure that the needs of the woman are placed at the centre of care.
- Have an understanding of barriers that impact or inhibit women from accessing antenatal care.
- Advocate for women in their choices surrounding pregnancy and birth.
- Ensure safe and effective clinical practice ensuring knowledge, skills and competencies are current.
- Act as a clinical expert to disseminate specialist skills and knowledge.
- Share highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and high experience.
- Act as a clinical expert to the team.
- Manage the team with regard to sickness, roster, appraisal and education.
Our Organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Person Specification Qualifications- Degree or equivalent experience
- Previous management or leadership course
- Experienced midwife including recent intrapartum
- Leadership experience as deputy team lead or ward manager
- Community and homebirth experience
- Experience of developing guidelines and policies
- Ability to adapt to meet changing needs and to work under pressure
- Ability to act as highly professional ambassador for the department when attending external events/meetings
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.
£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum plus 5% high cost area supplement
