Lead Midwife for Inpatient Services

2 months ago


Oldham, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, compassionate forward thinking leader to develop their midwifery career in a busy tertiary level maternity unit which provides care to a diverse population. Working closely with the recently expanded senior maternity team you will lead a person centred inpatient service utilising quality improvement methodology to take the next steps along the maternity improvement programme which is well underway here at the Royal Oldham Hospital

To provide professional leadership for midwifery ensuring that safe and effective quality of care is delivered within the resources available while ensuring that the care environment is organised to meet the needs of the patient enhancing their experience and supporting staff to meet the Divisional and Trust objectives through:

- The provision of visible, authoritative professional leadership support and direction for midwifery and by ensuring standards of practice and care are set and maintained
- Ensuring that safe, high quality clinical services are delivered in line with the national policy, Trust priorities, available evidence and patient care needs
- Lead programmes of improvement work related to avoidable harm and to support the delivery of the Trust and directorate clinical governance priorities and associated work programmes
- Working with Directorate Teams to optimise safe, compassionate, woman and family centred care is measured by clinical outcomes and women and families experiences
- Working with Directorate Teams to optimise through service and workforce productivity, efficiency and effectiveness

you will support in the senior midwifery leadership out of hours on call rota offering support and robust escalation to the Midwifery team in the unit.

Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital.

Our new Northern Care Alliance NHS Group unites four local hospitals to deliver high quality care across the North East of Greater Manchester.

The Alliance provides the benefits of scale but delivers this locally through multiple hospital sites which make up four new Care Organisations - Bury,Rochdale, Oldham and Salford. Using our mantra of ‘Saving lives, Improving lives’, the aim is for our Care Organisations to work closely with the communities they serve to deliver safe, high quality and reliable care, which are trusted, connected and pioneering.

Our Care Organisations are designed to operate within our group arrangement of hospitals, community and healthcare services which bring together over 17,000 staff. Our size and geographical reach means we are creating an environment each individual will be inspired and empowered by to be the best they can be. This is a really exciting time to join our new team.


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