Employer: University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Stoke
Town: Stoke on Trent
Salary: pa
Closing: 25/03/2025 23:59
Delivery Suite Co-ordinator and Flow Co-ordinator
Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic midwife with significant experience in high-risk midwifery to join the Delivery Suite Coordinator team. The candidate will have daily responsibility for managing a clinical team, including operational and leadership skills, coordinating the labour ward and undertaking the flow coordinator role. We are looking for someone who is willing to accept the wide range of ever-changing operational challenges in delivering high-quality safe care while role modelling Trust Values to the whole multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
Key Areas/Tasks
1. The Midwife Coordinator has designated responsibility for the management of the intrapartum area. This includes ensuring the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care and the setting of standards meeting national and local policy. The Midwife Coordinator will ensure adequate staffing levels are maintained each shift with effective use of manpower and skill mix and within allocated resources to cover a 24-hour service in the Delivery Suite.
2. The Midwife Coordinator will lead and facilitate innovative and evidence-based midwifery practice through professional leadership and supporting the clinical team by motivating staff, articulating vision and encouraging creativity within maternity services. The Midwife Coordinator will liaise with all members of the multidisciplinary team and facilitate a collaborative approach to patient care.
3. The Midwife Coordinator will act as a credible and professional role model and encourage and empower staff to develop both personally and professionally and achieve their maximum potential. Conduct the appraisal of staff; formulate the development of personal development plans by utilising the KSF framework in line with Trust policy.
4. The Midwife Coordinator will have a responsibility to facilitate the collection of data and ensure that audit information is utilised to improve the efficiency of the service to incorporate new ways of working where necessary.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching, and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return, we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by our staff, patients, and carers, that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting, and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is the delivery suite coordinator and flow coordinator post. Please see attached job description for further details.
Person specification
Experience
* Experienced Band 6 Midwife
* Minimum 2 years experience working on Labour ward
* Previous experience of co-ordinating
* Understanding of governance processes
* High dependency qualification
Qualifications
* UK NMC PIN
Important information about your application
* All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
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* We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
* Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies.
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At UHNM we are fortunate to receive a high volume of applications for many of our roles. On this occasion, we would reserve the right to close any advert early; therefore please apply without delay!
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Jill Whitaker
Job title: Deputy Director of Midwifery for Workforce.
Email address: jill.whitaker@uhnm.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01782 672214
Additional information: Julie Hulse.
Inpatient Matron
Julie.hulse@uhnm.nhs.uk
01782 672314
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