Labour Ward Coordinator

3 months ago


London, United Kingdom Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

If you are looking to work in an award winning, well-supported, friendly, dynamic, culturally astute and inclusive environment that puts women / birthing people at the centre of a high standard of care where the latest CQC report that rates us again as good, maintaining our good rating since 2017 and has now awarded us outstanding for leadership and have significant post registration experience, come and join us.

Lewisham and Greenwich is a large Maternity unit in the South East serving a diverse local population delivering over 7000 babies a year. We are looking for dynamic experienced Midwives to join our Band 7 team of delivery suite senior Midwives on the QEW site. We currently have vacancies for Substantive staff.

Working at Queen Elizabeth, you will co-ordinate the day to day running of our Consultant led unit. You will be a motivated, organised and enthusiastic midwife, with excellent communication skills which you will use to facilitate safe, high quality care for women and their families.

Your extensive clinical skills will be further adapted / utilised to support colleagues and students in their provision of safe effective care and in aiding them to develop their skills. Your knowledge and experience will be vital in this role interacting with risk, clinical audit and training.

Further duties of your line management role will include regular appraisals, managing sickness and absence and encouraging personal and professional development of those you line manage.

Main duties of the job

As a Delivery suite Coordinator you will be a frontline leader with management responsibility for the core services provided in a hospital setting.

You will be responsible for the management of resources, audit and quality monitoring, data collection, clinical leadership and deployment of staff.

You will endeavour to create an environment where the patient is central to all decision making and the delivery of high quality, safe and compassionate care which remains the primary objective.

You will be an expert resource to the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that all staff work in a professional manner and all registered staff are working as accountable practitioners.

You will be expected to demonstrate effective clinical leadership and role modelling, be able to inspire, motivate and empower others. This will require you to be highly visible and have an accessible approach to women, their families and staff.

This is a senior midwifery role within the organisation and there is an expectation that you will fully participate in the clinical and professional leadership of the department.

About us

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development Widening access (anchor institution) and employability Improving the experience of staff with disability Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development Making equalities mainstream Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide leadership to midwifery and non-midwifery staff, ensuring effective management of the daily activity and flow within the maternity service. This will result in high standards of midwifery care, reduction in length of stay and will be responsive to individualised needs, thus increasing women and birthing people satisfaction.

You will be visible within the unit for staff and, by having a helicopter view of the unit be clinically aware of the needs of the service whilst ensuring staffing is deployed to ensure all areas are sufficiently covered to provide a high standard of care to women / birthing people.

You will have an overview of staff and staffing needs and liaise with the rota coordinator to ensure the unit complies with safe staffing requirements.

With the rota coordinator, you will ensure rotas are maintained and accurately reflect the availability of staff.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

Registered Midwife with extensive band 6 experience. Degree in related field Recent evidence of clinical or professional development Mentorship course or equivalent teaching experience.

Desirable

MSc in relevant subject (evidence of working towards already on pathway

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

Has relevant post registration experience. Experience of working as a senior band 6 midwife role. Practice development or management of projects or initiatives. Experience with managing patient relevant to specialist area. Experience in people management and improving the patient experience. Mentoring experience. Decision making ability. Experience of change management/implementation of practice change. Demonstrated experience of delivering and co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments. Knowledge of the Better Births Five Year Forward View for Maternity Services Understanding of statutory regulation of midwifery practice.

Desirable

Counselling qualification. Driving license and use of car for work purposes

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