Lead Midwife - High Risk Delivery Suite

Job description

Job summary

We are seeking a dynamic, enthusiastic, and highly motivated midwife to provide strong clinical and managerial leadership within the maternity service and deputise for the Labour Ward Matron in their absence.

The successful candidate will lead and support multidisciplinary teams, including midwifery, medical and support staff, as well as students, ensuring the safe and effective management of the delivery suite and wider service. They will demonstrate a proactive approach to delivering high-quality, evidence-based, woman-centred care, facilitating patient flow across clinical areas and enhancing the experience of women and their families.This role includes a 0.4 WTE clinical commitment (two days per week), maintaining direct clinical involvement while supporting service leadership and operational management.

The post holder will play a key role in quality improvement initiatives, supporting the implementation, embedding and evaluation of service developments and improvement projects. Working closely with maternity matrons and key stakeholders, they will ensure the delivery of equitable, person-centred, and evidence-based care that aligns with national standards, recommendations, and relevant maternity reports and guidelines.

The successful candidate will be visible, approachable, and accessible to women, their families, and staff, fostering a culture of openness and support.

Main duties of the job

Provide clinical leadership to midwifery and non-midwifery staff, medical team students and ensuring effective management the activities of the delivery suite area as well as the service as a whole.

The post holder, to be proactive in providing high standards of midwifery care, facilitate patient flow to other clinical areas thus increasing positive experience for women and their families.

The post holder to be part of the quality improvement projects in the unit,support in the implementation, embedding and evaluation of results.

The post holder will work with maternity matrons and other stake holders to ensure staff deliver a level of service that is equitable, person-centred and evidence-based care that are consistent with the recommendations of all relevant reports and guidelines.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledgerequired. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Job description
Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledgerequired. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Intravenous accreditation
• Prep for Mentorship course or equivalent
• BSc or working towards

Experience

Essential

• Post registration experience including recent intrapartum experience.
• Recent experience of staff management
• Experience of Equal Opportunity polices and procedures
• Experience of caring for low risk as well as high dependency women in pregnancy, labour and postnatal delivery and supporting others to do so
• Experience of caring for at risk / socially excluded patient

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of own Knowledge and Skills Framework and ability to identify learning needs and interests
• Demonstrates a greater understanding of learning needs and evidence of facilitation skills
• Understanding and rising to the challenges in service improvement
• Can demonstrate a knowledge of current and emerging health care issues

Desirable

• Knowledge of current and emerging NHS strategy and policy

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Intravenous accreditation
• Prep for Mentorship course or equivalent
• BSc or working towards

Experience

Essential

• Post registration experience including recent intrapartum experience.
• Recent experience of staff management
• Experience of Equal Opportunity polices and procedures
• Experience of caring for low risk as well as high dependency women in pregnancy, labour and postnatal delivery and supporting others to do so
• Experience of caring for at risk / socially excluded patient

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of own Knowledge and Skills Framework and ability to identify learning needs and interests
• Demonstrates a greater understanding of learning needs and evidence of facilitation skills
• Understanding and rising to the challenges in service improvement
• Can demonstrate a knowledge of current and emerging health care issues

Desirable

• Knowledge of current and emerging NHS strategy and policy

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 .

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. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

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.
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 .

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. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust
Address

Royal London Hospital

London

E1 1FR

United Kingdom

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