Labour Ward Co-ordinator - London, United Kingdom - Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Have you got 3 years post registration experience? Do you feel ready for a new challenge?

Lewisham and Greenwich is a large Maternity unit in the South East serving a diverse local population delivering over 7000 babies a year, with almost 4,500 of those at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEW).

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 both Substantive staff and a 1 year secondment.

You will be working at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, co-ordinating the day to day running of our Consultant led units.

You will be a motivated, organised and enthusiastic midwife, with excellent communication skills and these will be used in order 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.

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.

Leading by example is crucial in collaborative working within the multidisciplinary team to maintain the Trusts Maternity philosophy of care.

We are very proud of the Maternity Services that we provide across our sites and are looking for an influential midwifery leader to continue raising the standard of clinical practice.

As a trust we encourage development of all our staff and as part of this role we are happy to offer Leadership and management development.

This will be as a formal course and as part of the role.

L&G have a wide variety of midwifery roles at all levels, so why not visit our careers page on our website to find out the jobs we have available and watch our videos to see why working for us is such a great idea.

This post is not suitable for Newly Qualified Midwives.

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

This will include management of resources, audit and quality monitoring, data collection, clinical leadership and deployment of staff.

The post holder will work to create an environment where the patient is central to all decision making and the delivery of high quality, safe and compassionate care 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 the post-holder to be highly visible and have an accessible approach to women/birthing people, their families and staff.

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