NHS
Antenatal Ward and Elective Maternity Care Lead Midwife.
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Job Description
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- Registered Midwife with NMC registration
- Degree level of education
- Completed preceptorship program
- Specialist post graduate training
- Leadership/Management qualification
- Examination of the newborn
- Band 6 clinical experience - wide and credible clinical background
- Experience in leadership/team leader role
- Experience in specific area of interest relevant to role
- Involvement in evidence base care
- Working with women with complex needs
- Leadership/management experience
- Risk management experience
- Audit experience
- NICE guidelines and local policies and procedures
- Health and safety agenda
- Able to work shifts and over a 7 day week
- Able to work in all areas e.g.antenatal, postnatal, low and high risk labour care and in the maternity community.
- Recognises own strengths and weaknesses
- Supports an unbiased approach to work, supporting a just culture
- Practice Supervisor and assessor training
- Up to date on all mandatory training
- Computer literate along with good keyboard skills
- Excellent leadership skills and ability to influence change
- Excellent clinical teacher
- Registered Midwife with NMC registration
- Degree level of education
- Completed preceptorship program
- Specialist post graduate training
- Leadership/Management qualification
- Examination of the newborn
- Band 6 clinical experience - wide and credible clinical background
- Experience in leadership/team leader role
- Experience in specific area of interest relevant to role
- Involvement in evidence base care
- Working with women with complex needs
- Leadership/management experience
- Risk management experience
- Audit experience
- NICE guidelines and local policies and procedures
- Health and safety agenda
- Able to work shifts and over a 7 day week
- Able to work in all areas e.g.antenatal, postnatal, low and high risk labour care and in the maternity community.
- Recognises own strengths and weaknesses
- Supports an unbiased approach to work, supporting a just culture
- Practice Supervisor and assessor training
- Up to date on all mandatory training
- Computer literate along with good keyboard skills
- Excellent leadership skills and ability to influence change
- Excellent clinical teacher
Job summary
The Maternity Service in UHD undertakes approximately 4,000 births per annum, providing consultant and midwifery led care in hospital and the community. The obstetric unit is the centre for high risk care for East Dorset.
This post forms part of UHD's midwifery leadership team and is responsible for professional and clinical leadership across all aspects of Antenatal Inpatient care, achieving key performance indicators for an allocated team of registered and non-registered staff. This will include line management duties . Regular whole unit coordination shifts are part of the role. (Board holding). The post holder will be responsible for the provision of robust clinical leadership, role modelling and maintaining high standards of professional practice in all aspects of antenatal inpatient care, elective induction of labour and caesarean section pathways.
The post holder will be required to work with the senior midwifery management team in providing an efficient and effective service within available resources, meeting agreed standards, objectives and statutory requirements, deputising for the senior inpatient matron when necessary.
Base Location: St Mary's Maternity Unit
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
To be a confident and expert Antenatal Ward and Elective Services Team midwife practitioner participating in the clinical areas rotas for an agreed proportion of work time.
Provide specialist care and advice to all women who use the maternity services, offering clinical leadership to all grades of staff including junior medical staff.
Close communication is required with the labour ward particularly in the coordination of induction of labour, elective caesarean and other planned antenatal obstetric procedures. Liaison with the alongside midwifery led unit, day assessment unit, postnatal wards, theatres and critical care to facilitate a safe and effective service.
To ensure all work is undertaken in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Trust Values.
To support student midwives and medical students during their studies acting as a senior expert clinician.
To work effectively with allied departments such as infection prevention, pharmacy, ultrasound and physio teams.
Demonstrate confident knowledge of national initiatives to improve maternity outcomes such as Saving Babies Lives Care Bundles, Better Births, Maternity and Neonatal Safety in Pregnancy and safety reports such as Ockendon 2020.
Effective liaison with bereavement, antenatal clinic and antenatal screening colleagues to ensure empathetic and seamless care for couples experiencing pregnancy loss.
About us
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Date posted
15 August 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£43,742 to £50,056 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
153-SP02153
Job locations
St Mary's Maternity Unit
Poole
BH15 2BH
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Participation in external regulatory body inspections and follow up work generated from this.
Support Senior Inpatient Matron in the investigation of patient complaints and in the improvement of patient experience.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert
Job responsibilities
Participation in external regulatory body inspections and follow up work generated from this.
Support Senior Inpatient Matron in the investigation of patient complaints and in the improvement of patient experience.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Other
Essential
Technical Skills
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Other
Essential
Technical Skills
Essential
Additional informationDisclosure 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
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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 UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St Mary's Maternity Unit
Poole
BH15 2BH
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St Mary's Maternity Unit
Poole
BH15 2BH
Employer's website
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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