The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Do you want to lead, develop and support a team in a community environment?
Are you a strong clinical leader with good collaborative skills who is enthusiastic about enhancing patient care?
If so, we are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Midwife to work with the existing Community Midwifery Managers to continue to develop our Community Service.
The successful candidate will have significant experience, including recent community care, as a Registered Midwife. As a Community Midwifery Manager, you will be professionally accountable for providing clinical, operational and managerial leadership with a positive approach to develop the service and ensure consistent safe and high quality community midwifery care across the Maternity Service.
You will work as part of the Senior Midwifery Leadership team and will be required to participate in the management of safe staffing and caseload management.
Main duties of the job
* To provide expert clinical advice in relation to the leadership, management and education of Community Midwives and Maternity Support Workers.
* Management of the Community Midwifery team; to include annual appraisal, staffing rotas, performance and sickness management, recruitment and selection and the supervision of students.
* To lead, manage and coordinate activity within the Community Midwifery Service.
* To work with department teams, peers and Matrons to support, promote and enable the provision of safe, high quality care to women, babies and their families.
* To lead on the development, planning and future services in line with evidenced practice, national and local recommendations and initiatives.
* Monitoring standards of midwifery care and take appropriate action to maintain and improve them.
* Leading on quality improvements within the community midwifery pathway.
* Continuous monitoring of patient experience and harm free care.
* Assisting in the budget management for the community midwifery team.
* Being a primary point of contact for service users, responding to patients, relatives and carers concerns and complaints as they arise, and taking remedial action as required.
About us
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
* Freeman Hospital
* Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
* Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
* Newcastle Dental Hospital
* Newcastle Fertility Centre
* Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
* Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
Job responsibilities
Works autonomously within NMC, Trust and Directorate Guidelines to provide continuity of care as relates to community services. Develop, in conjunction with the women, a programme of individualised, holistic care, taking cognisance of social, physical, psychological and cultural needs. Responsible for the overall delivery and quality of services provided within the clinical area, including the care delivered for a designated period of time. Providing management and leadership of the team. Responsible for antenatal and postnatal service provision and developments within the community setting including the homebirth service.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Person Specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
* Registered Midwife
* Recognised teaching/assessing qualification
* Evidence of ongoing professional and personal development
* Degree level study in a health-related subject or relevant clinical experience.
* Leadership and interpersonal/communication skills and evidence of participation in change management and practice development
* Recent community and line management experience
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
* Demonstrates a broad knowledge of current midwifery issues
* A working knowledge of risk management/clinical governance
* Conversant in national reports / guidelines on maternity services
* Knowledge of safeguarding policies
* Involvement in appraisal/performance reviews
* Knowledge of stock control and effective use of resources
SKILLS
* Excellent leadership skills
* Ability to network
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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