- Responsible for defined clinical areas / portfolio and clinical teams
- Be assured through robust monitoring processes that all women and families cared for within the service have their individual care needs assessed, planned, delivered and evaluated by appropriate members of the team.
- Ensure that all women are involved in decisions about their care and have agreed their plans of care. Person Specification
- To be able to travel around the area of work
- Able to participate on a local divisional on-call for maternity escalation
- Appropriate Professional Registration - Registered Midwife
- Degree in Midwifery or health related subject
- Recognised teaching and assessing qualification.
- Evidence of ongoing professional
- Registered with Nursing & Midwifery Council
- Masters or willingness to work towards
- Leadership qualification
- Significant recent operational experience as a Band 7 or above
- Experience of service development, leading and managing change
- Evidence of effective budgetary control
- Up-to-date knowledge of national midwifery policy and strategy
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries
- Experience of policy development and implementation
- Proven ability to flexibly manage workforce and other resources
- Able to demonstrate a personal contribution to the continuing professional development of staff.
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Safeguarding and the relevance of these to practice.
- Experience of managing and completing 'performance management' processes
- Experience of mentorship and ability to identify learning and development needs
- Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Able to demonstrate coherent report writing skills
- Good presentation and teaching skills
- IT skills
- Advanced level of interpersonal skills and ability to manage difficult people
- Understanding of the role of research and development activities and clinical effectiveness as a whole within the department
- Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
- Able to analyse and develop solutions to problems
- Able to understand sensitive political issues
- Ability to negotiate, influence, escalate and seek advice where appropriate
- Ability to meet deadlines through excellent organisational skills
- Influencing and negotiating skills
- Able to demonstrate a high level of enthusiasm and commitment
- Able to work flexibly under pressure, rapid pace, and with an unpredictable work pattern
- Ability to undertake clinical decision making.
- Experience of change management
- Experience of managing difficult and sensitive situations with tact, diplomacy and professionalism
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Midwifery Matron - Bolton, United Kingdom - Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Job summary
Are you an experienced midwife keen to influence the future delivery of safe, compassionate and effective maternity care? If so, we want to hear from you...
We are seeking Maternity Matrons to come and join our compassionate leadership team at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust and manage the intrapartum care and specialist midwifery portfolios.
We are a dedicated team, with an inspiring vision, investing in the development of our future leadership team to support the ongoing development of our maternity service. Please make contact if you would like to hear more...
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will be a visible and credible clinical leader, promoting compassionate leadership within your areas of responsibility whilst engaging your teams to improve standards of care.
You will be an advocate for women within your care and will be committed to your teams and keen to promote excellence within your clinical areas of responsibility working with families within your care.
You will be supported in your role by the Director of Midwifery and wider leadership team to achieve your ambitions and excel as a leader.
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please contact Director of Midwifery Janet Cotton to arrange an informal visit via email -
About us
Here at Bolton our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of Care and are guided by our trust Values. We are proud that our Trust has been rated as Good by the Quality Care Commission (CQC). This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients. It is also supported by our Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Framework for Professional Practice.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
The following lists outlines some of the responsibilities of the role (not exhaustive):
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Experience
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