Community Midwife Team Leader - Bradford, United Kingdom - Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Community Midwifery Manager - Substantive role - Band 7

Bradford Maternity Services aspires to be outstanding, to provide excellent care, experience, services and staff development opportunities.

We serve a city with a young and diverse population giving us amazing opportunities to adapt and respond to both local and national agenda's for maternity care provision now and in the future.

Are you a dynamic, forward thinking experienced midwife aspiring to lead and develop services and people towards excellence in providing midwifery care in the community context? We are looking for a substantive Community Midwifery Manager.

- Matron for Community Midwifery and Antenatal Services
To lead, manage and co-ordinate staff and activity within the community teams.

To liaise with other professional groups in relation to pregnancy and the transition into parenthood to accelerate quality, safety and health for women, babies and families in the local community.

To provide expert care, support and advice to women and their families throughout their antenatal and postnatal period, in accordance with The Code for nurses and midwives (NMC, 2015)
To empower and enable midwives to advocate for women in relation to birth choices, complex birth and personalised care planning
To provide expert intrapartum care and advice in relation to home births.

To lead on the development, planning and future implementation of services in line with recent government drivers and local recommendations and initiatives.

To be involved in the development, co-ordination and management of new continuity teams.

From the best curry in the country, to the world's turbo chargers, to breakthrough technologies that help to manage chronic pain, we have something for everyone.

We have a strong service sector and community ethos that works together to make Bradford a great place to live and work.

As the youngest city in the UK, we are investing heavily in skills for the future by providing the right training at every level for the significant sectors of our economy, and Bradford University and Bradford College are positioning themselves as exemplars in their field.

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust employ just over 5,200 staff, serving a population of around 500,000.

We currently operate over two main sites the Bradford Royal Infirmary provides the majority of inpatient services, and St Luke's Hospital provides outpatient and rehabilitation services.

As a teaching hospital, the Foundation Trust is at the forefront of research and development in healthcare.

This promotes a culture of learning and professional development that ensures that all doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals practice the highest clinical standards.

To provide and direct midwifery care and leadership in accordance with the The Code for Nurses and Midwives (NMC,

Accountable for care provided to the women on own caseload (if applicable) and co-ordination of caseload of midwives and support staff.

Ensure the philosophy, policies, procedures, protocols and standards of the Trust are adhered to.
To maintain own professional development, including maintenance of Personal Professional Portfolio towards effective preparation for professional revalidation.

To organise, manage and support teams in providing safe, effective, individualised continuity of care for all mothers throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods.

To support, direct and have final responsibility for activity, staff cover and skill mix in each community team, applying principles of risk assessment and management to ensure safe and effective service provision.

To observe, nurture and direct midwives to manage a caseload for a defined group of childbearing women .

To lead and support teams of midwives in pursuing excellence to provide and promote Midwife Led Care to those women identified as low risk.

To organise and prioritise own workload and delegate work to other health care and administration staff.
To collect, collate and monitor performance, activity and workforce information relative to the role. Communicating to the teams results and improvements to enhance quality and safety for women.
Through the provision of effective leadership and management, develop and sustain a culture of excellence within the teams and across an integrated maternity service that enables delivery of a high standard of clinical care whilst maintaining the privacy and dignity of women and their families
Manage resources in an efficient and effective way, influencing and contributing towards lean budgets working with senior managers to maximise efficiencies and reduce waste
Participate in the recruitment of staff and facilitate the development of individual staff and the maternity team as a whole through the use of appraisal and personal development plans taking in to account both the needs of the service and the aspirations of the individual practitioner
To take part in the bed manager rota and the senior on call rota

Significant experience of working as a Registered Midwife in a wide range of settings, in particular community midwifery
Experience of facilitating teaching and training

Good understanding and experience of assurance processes/audit/change management
Experience with people management in relation to appraisal performance, recruitment and selection process

High level of organisational skills, self-motivation, drive for performance and quality improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude

Understanding of equality and diversity issues and how this affects patients, visitors and staff
Understanding of the risk and governance agenda within maternity, including learning from incidents
First level Registered Midwife with current NMC registration
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Bradford Teaching Hospitals