Delivery Suite Co-ordinator

Band 7 Delivery Suite Coordinator opportunity now available for a highly motivated and experienced Midwife.
The practitioner should be an expert in the assessment, planning, and implementation of all areas of Midwifery care for specific groups of women throughout the childbirth continuum, which facilitates clinical practice development. They will co-ordinate, on a shift-by-shift basis, the delivery suite, including appraisal, rotas, recruitment and selection and the supervision of learners. The Delivery Suite Co-ordinator will support and lead a team of Midwifery staff in the delivery of evidence-based, woman-centred care in labour which is of a high standard. They are responsible for ensuring all care is delivered according to Trust policies and procedures maintaining associated records. Utilising clinical audit, research, supervision of practice and teaching, they will monitor and improve standards of care by efficient and effective use of resources.
Clinical
- Demonstrate advanced skills in areas, such as, but not limited to, fetal surveillance; maternal care pathways; maternal and neonatal life support and assessment; management of clinical risk and escalation.
- Provide specialist midwifery expertise as required, drawing on experience, research and evidence-based skills.
- Fully conversant in dealing with complex midwifery problems such as safeguarding issues, in-utero transfers, baby abduction procedures, etc.
- Use leadership skills to ensure the assessment, development and evaluation of care plans in order to co-ordinate the holistic needs of the patients.
- Provide care and support to bereaved patients and their loved ones, midwives will be involved in sensitively supporting bereaved families, supporting their choice and wishes, and supporting other staff undergoing this process.
- Regularly lead shifts and maintain competence to do so and possess the Midwifery skills/competence to undertake labour care, which includes perineal suturing, emergency interventions, timely escalation, referral and review.
- Maintain accurate management records at all times, ensuring appropriate reporting mechanisms are used.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Digital
- Ensure the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation is applied when patient records are accessed.
- Critically examine patient records to identify risks that could impact care and support the team to undertake continual holistic risk assessments.
- Retrieve information from digital systems such as the Maternity Dashboard, to provide safe care, and for audit purposes.
- Ensure digital skills are to a high standard, having the ability to support other staff members.

Technical
- Use technical skills to operate, maintain and escalate faults in medical devices needed to provide safe and effective care.
- Lead/support the team to identify appropriate local medical devices to support safe practice.

Operational Management
- Take measures to ensure the safety of patients, which includes delegation of patient care to midwives with the appropriate levels of skills at all times, adjusting as workload and caseload alters, using developed decision-making skills.
- Ensure that duty rota for the staff will provide effective cover to meet with the requirements of a 24-hour service, leading and effectively implementing the escalation policy for the Maternity Unit.
- Be responsible for the organisation of midwifery care of the patients who have been assigned to the area.
- Escalate concerns to the Maternity Unit Manager and keep them informed of service, staffing, escalation, customer satisfaction, equipment problems, incidents and risk events in a timely manner to enable the cascading of information, escalate it as appropriate or gain assistance from the correct source or give support if required.
- Critically evaluate the effectiveness of the local escalation plan and take personal action to collaborate to make improvements as needed.
- Lead, develop and support collaboratively the development of Health and Safety