Community Team Leader

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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• Provide sound clinical, professional, educational and managerial leadership to midwives and support staff working within the community setting.
• Provide consistent, visible leadership, creating a supportive environment that enables staff to make effective decisions and deliver high-quality care.
• Undertake direct line management responsibilities, supporting staff development and encouraging colleagues to develop their professional, clinical and communication skills.
• Act as a positive professional role model, promoting appropriate professional standards and effective partnership working.
• Ensure community services are appropriately staffed, identify inappropriate staffing levels or skill mix and take appropriate remedial action.
• Take responsibility, alongside the Community Matron, for the organisation of midwifery caseloads allocated to community teams.
• Promote the delivery ofsafe, compassionate, evidence-based and individualised maternity care to women, babies and their families across care settings and provide up-to-date professional advice in accordance with relevant professional standards.
• Provide clinical support within all aspects of maternity services when required.
• Participate in the community on-call rota, supporting the homebirth service and escalation pathways.
• Promote a culture in which safety, quality improvement and learning are embedded within everyday practice.
• Ensure clinical risks are identified and reported through the appropriate clinical risk reporting framework, commence appropriate investigations and monitor outcomes and lessons learned.
• Proactively contribute to the development and improvement of community midwifery pathways.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across maternity services to support safe and effective care.
• Build effective professional relationships and promote partnership working across community and maternity services.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Midwife
• Evidence of Degree or masters qualification

Desirable criteria

• Research qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Suitable post-registration experience within the relevant speciality, with evidence of the clinical skills, knowledge and leadership capabilities required for the role
• In depth knowledge of antenatal and postnatal pathways
• Evidence of the application of management/leadership skills and autonomous practice
• Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable criteria

• Involvement in audit
• Participation in Research

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Effective communicator
• Leadership & motivation skills
• Ability to motivate self and others Lead and facilitate change
• Teaching /assessment skills

Skills

Essential criteria

• Effective communicator both written and verbal
• Ability to think logically, prioritise and use initiative
• Assertive and confident
• Demonstrate good leadership and organisation skills
• Ability to take managerial and professional responsibility for team and staff.
• Team focussed
• Reliable, Adaptable and Dependable

It is an exciting time to join Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.

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