- Act as professional role model
- Professional attitude
- Positive attitude to change
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Ability to work as team member
- Ability to use own initiative, but know when to seek guidance as appropriate.
- To be enthusiastic, motivated, honest and reliable.
- Willing to learn new skills.
- Flexibility with regard to patterns (covering the 24hr period if required) and places of work.
- Willing to participate in the midwifery managers on call rota
- The duties of this post may require travelling throughout the District on a daily basis; therefore the post holder must be independently mobile with access to a vehicle for business use
- Extensive post registration experience with considerable experience at senior level
- Ability to establish good working relationships and networks.
- Proven leadership/ management experience
- Demonstrate recent experience of managing change in either processes and/or service development.
- Ability to represent the service and contribute effectively at external meetings such as LMS
- Evidence of Leading Change
- Extended/advanced clinical skills
- Ability to assess, plan and implement programmes of care for women with complex conditions
- Ability to negotiate with women regarding their birth/care plan
- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstrate confidence and ability in written and verbal reporting
- Contribute to the development of services
- Interpret guidelines and policy and implement into practice
- Understanding and experience of interagency working and services available within primary/secondary care
- Evidence of ability to act on own initiative and work autonomously
- Leadership skills
- Expert clinical skills/knowledge within Midwifery
- Leadership skills
- Able to apply HR policies/processes relevant to managing a team
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills
- Up to date mandatory training
- Experience of critiquing clinical evidence
- Able to manage conflict situations in a team or with clients
- Computer literate
- Recruitment and interviewing skills
- Complaints training
- Team building skills
- Knowledge of IT/electronic patient record/ admin systems
- Aware of the current national, regional and local midwifery age
- Awareness of own limitations.
- Registered Midwife.
- Mentorship Qualification.
- Educated to Masters Degree level of equivalent experience
- Management qualification
- Professional midwifery advocate
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Matron Midwifery - Wakefield, United Kingdom - The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Description
Job summary
Are you anexperienced midwife keen to influence the future delivery of safe,compassionate and effective maternity care? If so, we want to hear from you.
MidYorkshire Teaching Trust is looking for a highly motivated, dynamic and enthusiastic Matron to join our Maternity team,with an initial portfolio of selected elements from both inpatient andoutpatient areas.
Approximately4,600 women each year birth at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust. Weprovide antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care across the Wakefield districtand North Kirklees. We offer four choices of place of birth: home, freestandingbirth centre at Dewsbury District Hospital and the alongside birth centre andconsultant-led delivery suite in Wakefield.
AtMid Yorkshire Teaching Trust we are continuing to implement the National MaternityTransformation Programme alongside our colleagues in the Local Maternity andNeonatal System (LMNS) the Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) and othercommunity partners.
The Three Year Delivery Plan for Maternityand Neonatal services and outcomes from Ockenden and East Kent reportingprovide a clear steer on high quality, safe care with improved outcomes, all ofwhich form part of our co-produced Maternity Strategy.
We are a friendly and supportive team whowelcome hearing the voices of all to develop responsive and innovative ways ofworking.
for more information and a tour of then unit please contact.
Michala Little Head of Midwifery
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will demonstrate;
EffectiveLeadership of the Midwifery Service.
Will have the Responsibilityfor overseeing the management of the service, managing staff and liaising withothers as necessary.
They will act as a role modelto others, providing specialist expertise that is underpinned by sometheoretical knowledge and practical clinical experience and competence.
About us
We provide care and support to over a million people inWakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across ourthree hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront ofinnovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of ourworkforce.
We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectfuland maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make MidYorkshire the best place to work and receive care.
We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasmirrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity andgender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation,or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support tosomeone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of theLGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currentlyunder-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications frommembers of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure allapplicants are treated fairly and consistently.
We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuableguidance and feedback from those with lived experience.
We have a clear vision and you could be part of this Ifyou share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of ourpatients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
With the wider maternity staff team contributeto the realisation of the Maternity Strategy. Maternity transformation plan andthe development of quality services.
Establish and contribute to the continuingdevelopment of the Midwifery service philosophy of care, ensuring that it iscongruent with the beliefs and values upheld within the clinical setting.
Implement a systematic approach to midwiferycare based on accepted evidence based models, ensuring that care is planned,implemented and evaluated in line with agreed standards, which are robustlyevidence based and planned in partnership with the patient. Utilise thecontribution of support staff appropriately.
Ensure that multi-disciplinary continuity ofcarer pathways are implemented.
Keep staff informed on current clinical issuesand professional development.
Maintain clinical records in accordance with NMCCode requirements
Ensure that a suitably sized sample of clinicalrecords are audited at least every six months planned home births, BBAs,models of ante or post-natal care, labour records etc.
Provide statements as necessary within therequired time frames.
Ensure medicines are stored, supplied andadministered in accordance with Trust Medicines Guidelines and professionalguidance, and that practices are audited at least annually.
Act as an advocate for patients and theirfamilies including the facilitation of choice and provision of support.
Ensure clinical procedures are performedcompetently and that support is available for staff in the form of clinicalprocedure documents, SOPs and training opportunities.
Respond to health emergencies and where practicablecontribute to the direct care of patients as needed.
Understand the role of the Midwifery Advisor(MA) and inform the ADN/Head of Midwifery, Midwifery manager on call of anycircumstances in which safe and appropriate care for mothers and babies cannotbe or has not been provided.
Investigate and act upon any reports ofcircumstances in which safe care cannot or has not been provided, reporting tothe Assistant Director of Nursing and Midwifery in a timely manner.
Ensure staff have the necessary equipment toundertake their role, are using the equipment safely and that this isappropriately monitored.
Ensure patient administration IT systems areused in accordance with Trust policies and that staff are appropriatelytrained.
Ensure appropriate timely communication withpatients, relatives and carers, advising and supporting them as needed. Ensuresupport systems translators, bereavement, chaplaincy etc are usedappropriately.
Ensure the availability of relevant, up to datepatient information in a user friendly, accessible format.
Ensure effective multidisciplinary team workingacross the service and also with external agencies.
Person SpecificationPersonal Attributes
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Skills and Abilities
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Knowledge and Awareness
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Qualifications
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