1. Identify, establish and ensure compliance to all legislative, HCS policy, procedures and professional practices in line with professional regulatory and statutory requirements. Ensure that all staff are aware of their individual responsibilities in line with their relevant Codes of Practice including Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Jersey Care Commission (JCC), to enhance best practice.2. Overall governance responsibility ensuring compliance to evidence-based practice standards, inextricably linked to the Health and Community Services (HCS) quality agenda, including the Jersey Care Commission (JCC) reviews. Clinical supervision models will be integral to the overall support and wellbeing of staff.3. Appraise and monitor the professional and clinical performance of the team. Identify individual staff training and development needs as well as developing an annual team business and training plan, to achieve optimum outcomes for patients within defined budgets. Contribute to the overall Care Group and HCS business planning cycle.4. Ensure effective assurance mechanisms are in place to measure care outcomes linked to evidence based standards. Individual care plans, risk assessments and associated records will be contemporaneous and incorporate measurable metrics. Lead on and manage risk, developing appropriate risk management strategies and promote a culture of patient safety.5. Responsible for budget management, ensuring cost effective and efficient use of resources. This will involve budget setting, budget monitoring and budget re-alignment. Create a value for money culture which encourages self-sufficiency and flexibility of working practices to provide the most cost-effectivedeployment of staff, matching skill mix to service needs.6. Responsible and accountable for effective rostering of the Midwifery team, in line with the key performance indicators as specified in E-roster and HCS Rostering policy. Ensure that the area of responsibility has effective skills and safe staffing levels to meet demand, in line with appropriate acuity tool. Integral to this, staff rosters will take into consideration staff health and wellbeing in line with best practice.7. Ensure the patient journey is optimised and that patient flow is effective and timely from admission to discharge. Effective communication must be established with all disciplines and agencies who are involved in the women and families care. This will include active engagement with community and primary care providers, where care is continued in the patients preferred place of care and should be aligned to the expectations of the Government of Jersey Our Hospital initiative and the implementation Jersey Care Model. 8. Lead and manage the overall multi-disciplinary team to identify, report and escalate issues of concern relating to patient safety, identified risks and compromise in care. Ensure appropriate safeguards are in place and advocate for women and their families, communicating to appropriate agencies when there are any concerns regarding potential/actual risk to any patient or their dependents e.g., safeguarding, domestic violence, protection of the vulnerable adult/child, mental capacity and Significant Restriction of Liberty (SRoL). 9. Lead, manage and promote the HCS quality agenda, to ensure key evidence-based care standards, in line with legislative and professional regulatory requirements are adhered to. Standards will be embedded into all operational delivery of care and monitored continually. Where required, action plans will be developed and addressed by all staff to ensure compliance and delivery of optimal standards of care. Ward managers will be accountable for establishing, maintaining and respectfully challenging/taking appropriate action when care falls below the expected standards10. Lead and manage staff to comply with infection prevention and control (IPaC) policies and to attend any appropriate training requirements. Responsible for the clinical environment, ensuring IPaC policies and procedures are known and understood by all staff. Provide assurance around compliance to IPaC standards by completing relevant audit and act upon the results.11. Working within the care group, ensure best practice principles are applied to recruitment and retention of staff. Manage all relevant human resources procedures fairly and effectively. This will include assurance around developing practice through performance, review and appraisal and managing poor performance, in line with HCS policies.12. Ensure that appropriate models of effective clinical supervision are established, maintained and embedded into clinical practice for all staff. A variety of models should be considered, depending on the specific needs of the clinical team and adapted to ensure clinical practice and patient care is optimised within a clinical governance framework.13. Undertake on-call shifts, taking queries from staff; providing clinical/managerial telephone guidance and/or attending the Hospital in person when needed to deal with situations.14. Take responsibility for the handing of complaints relating to the service area. Personally, lead and supervise investigations where necessary, implement actions and changing practice, adopting a learning culture. Women and their families will be central to all stages of the care journey, supported by HCS Patient Advocacy Liaison Service (PALS) and Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA). This will optimise and strengthen the patient voice at each stage of their journey improving individualised care delivery.15. Always ensure that teams work in a safe and responsible manor by demonstrating a knowledge and understanding of all HCS Health and Safety policies, including Fire Regulations, COSHH, Moving and Handing and Safety walkabouts. Develop a formal programme of risk assessment in relation to health & safety, clinical risk and other agreed areas of risk management, in line with corporate and national frameworks.