Midwifery Practice Leader Maternity Assessment Unit

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Full time

St Thomas’ Maternity Assessment Unit is a fast paced unit with a high turnover using the BSOTS triage system (Birmingham Symptom-specific Obstetric Triage system). It is an exciting place to work and you can gain varied experience e.g use of Dawes Redman, research with our prematurity team, BP monitoring service, ECVs and scanning.

As a Midwifery Practice Leader you will be responsible for ensuring the provision of high quality, woman centred care in midwifery services, through the provision of clinical expertise, professional direction and leadership.

**Closing Date**: 26th November 2023

**Interview Date**: 6th December 2023

The post holder is expected to provide care to service users, supervise others and should be confident educating students and newly qualified midwives.

You will be confident to escalate any concerns in the best interests of the woman and her family and proactively work with the wider multidisciplinary team to deliver the best care to women with complex medical needs.

You will work closely with the MAU Matron and other MAU MPL’s and be confident in the Interpretation of CTGs, cannulation, preparation of women for theatre, management of obstetric and neonatal emergencies and teaching more junior staff.

You will support your team members to develop their skills and carryout annual appraisals

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals - Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King’s Health Partners - we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

**The post holder will**:
Key duties

To work in accordance with the NMC Rules and Code for nurses and midwives

To be responsible for the provision of a high quality, woman centred midwifery service for the Trust, in line with the national and Trust standards

To lead on the management of the day to day running of the midwifery services on Hospital Birth Centre, ensuring that women and families receive care in a timely manner

To work with the multidisciplinary team to continually monitor the maternity pathways

To identify areas for improvement and to take a lead role in designing, implementing and supporting new and existing initiatives

To deputise for the matron

To be a role model in the provision of midwifery care in all clinical duties.

Communication

Establish a robust communication pathway with all inpatient midwifery teams.

Work closely with the teams, liaise with other departments and members of the Trust to ensure the smooth pathway through inpatient services for women.

Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills when dealing with all levels of staff across the trust and be able to challenge senior staff around pathway performance.

Ensure women are communicated with in a sensitive and effective manner and problems are dealt with promptly and efficiently.

Play a key role in the further implementation of digital technology

Quality

Ensure that women and their families receive high quality clinical care and have a positive experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines

Actively engage service users through the facilitation of feedback

Collect, analyse and share relevant data on midwifery services

Facilitate a high quality, cost effective specialist service through monitoring and audit and other quality initiatives agreed by the Trust

Play a lead role in key developments relating to the midwifery service.

Participate in the development of policies, protocols and clinical guidelines in support of the specialist service.

Set, monitor and review standards of care on a regular basis and initiate corrective action plans

Identify and intervene where circumstances contribute to an unsafe environment for women and staff and to escalate as appropriate.

Management and leadership

Be a highly visible leader who is accessible to women, visitors and staff

Maintain expert skills and knowledge in clinical midwifery practice.

Provide a leadership role model and demonstrate expert knowledge and high standards of clinical practice.

Co-ordinate the provision of midwifery services, effectively liaising with multidisciplinary and multi

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