We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate midwife to continue to develop the Midwifery Led services offered at our co-located Newcastle Birthing Centre.
The successful candidate will have significant experience, including recent intrapartum care, as a Registered Midwife. As the Birthing Centre Midwifery Manager you will be professionally accountable for providing clinical, operational and managerial leadership with a positive approach. You should be able to coordinate safe, high quality, 1:1 care across the birth centre team.
You will work as part of the Senior Midwifery Leadership team and will be required to participate in the management of safe staffing and patient flow across the unit.
• Interview date: 4th January 2024
• 37 hours 30minutes /week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
• To provide expert clinical advice in relation to the leadership, management and education of the Birthing Centre team of Midwives and Maternity Support Workers.
• To lead, manage and coordinate activity within the Birthing Centre.
• To work with department teams, peers and Matrons to support, promote and enable the provision of safe, high quality care to women and their families.
• To lead on the development, planning and future services in line with evidenced practice, national and local recommendations and initiatives.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
• Works autonomously within NMC, Trust and Directorate Guidelines to provide continuity of care as relates to intrapartum services.
• Develop, in conjunction with the women, a programme of individualised, holistic care, taking cognisance of social, physical, psychological and cultural needs.
• Responsible for delivery of low risk intrapartum assessment and care for women within a co-located midwifery led unit.
• Providing management and leadership of the team within the defined period of time.
• Responsible for the overall delivery and quality of services provided within the clinical area, including the care delivered for a designated period of time.
• Leadership and responsibility for the coordination and delivery of low risk intrapartum assessment and care for women within a co-located midwifery led unit.
• The management of a team of core and rotational Midwives, and Maternity Support Workers working within the Birthing Centre environment.
• You will be expected to contribute to intrapartum midwifery led care and
liaise with all areas and leaders to provide joined up safe care.
• You will be required to compile off duty rotas, including using electronic rostering systems.
• You will be responsible for the dissemination and communication of information regarding the service to staff and service users.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay
This advert closes on Sunday 17 Dec 2023
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