Midwifery Team Leader - Preston, United Kingdom - Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Preston, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Are you an experienced Midwife with a passion for continuity and would love to join the midwifery-led service as a Team Leader? If you are dynamic, motivational, visible and have the drive and determination to support the national picture of maternity service transformation then this is the opportunity for you.

We are looking for a resilient individual who is able to manage complex situations as well as being well organised and innovative.

You will be motivated to provide evidenced based care, with the aim of promoting a positive experience of maternity services and increasing births in the midwifery-led settings.

You will be a key member of the multidisciplinary team ensuring that there are good lines of communication between midwifery-led and complex midwifery services.

Working in partnership with the other lead midwives, the matron for midwifery-led services and the consultant midwife, the successful applicant will lead a team of skilled midwives and support staff to successfully deliver the Better Births vision of Continuity of carer for all women.

The Team leader has a key leadership and management role at a senior level and will provide specialist skills and knowledge to support the organisation and the delivery of care for women and their families throughout their pregnancy, birth and postnatal journey in accordance with the department philosophy and standards of care, ensuring that Trust values and behaviours are upheld.

The Team Leader has a fundamental role in monitoring and maintaining high standards of professional practice, ensuring an environment that is conducive to well-being and contributing to effective budgetary management.

Working as part of the senior midwifery team, the Team leader will contribute to the future development of the maternity service through participation of development initiatives.

Leading the service into the future will be a key requirement, working closely with the Consultant Midwife and Matron for midwifery-led services.

If this is not enoughwe have a BIG PLAN to:

consistently deliver excellent care

- create a great place to work
- deliver value for money
- ensure we are fit for the future

Develop our staff to be the best they can be

We hope you can you see yourself being part of this dynamic team of midwives who really care about your career development, your ideas and your contribution to make our service the best it can be.

Clinical/professional responsibilities

Performs, promotes and monitors high standards of midwifery care in line with local and national standards and the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) Professional Code of Conduct/Rules and Standards.
Work effectively in all community, birth centre and complex care settings. Ensures an accessible and flexible service.
Develops and supports innovative approaches of care to meet the needs of women and their families.
Uses high quality evidence based practice.
Ensures the team and individuals in the team are accountable and responsible for clinical decision making.
Provide midwifery care for preconception advice and support, for early pregnancy, and provision of a triage service.
Promote birth as a normal physiological process as part of a woman's life
Act as an advocate for women at all times.
Empower women to make informed choices about all aspects of their pregnancy, birth and postnatal care.
Ensure the provision of innovative parent education programmes with a focus on the promotion of normality and increase confidence in early parenting skills, including infant feeding practices.
Recognise limit to own role and abilities and seek support where appropriate followed by training and development to address issues.
Participate in continuing professional development requirements.
Adhere to appropriate frameworks to achieve compliance with safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
Ensure public health principles are embedded in care provided, to contribute to the improvement of each woman's and her family's health status.
Manage ethical dilemmas in a supportive, collaborative manner
Set, monitor and maintain standards of care to improve the patient experience and outcome of care.
Ensure the provision of Excellent Care with Compassion
Proactively manage risk and maintain safety, conforming to health and safety, infection control and LTH policies, procedures and guidelines.
Comply with Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulations.
Contribute to a positive learning environment underpinned by LTH core values.
Manage concerns raised about individual practice or behaviour.
Participates and leads in change management
Promote research in order to maintain and develop midwifery practice.
Undertakes audit and evaluation programmes and ensure that the midwifery contribution within the team contributes to quality indicators such as clinical benchmarking and is meeting NHS government targets.
Evidence of being active mentor and role model and sig