University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)
To act as Team Leader for the Community Midwifery Team in Brighton and Hove and the surrounding areas. The post holder will work as part of a small Leadership team to ensure woman and people accessing care from the Trust receive high quality, contemporary and family centred services. To ensure the smooth day to day provision of care, encompassing National Agendas, to lead by example and provide clinical supervision.
Main duties of the job
1. Build collaborative relationships with teams and MSW.
2. Liaise with admin staff, other community team leaders and the MDT to ensure smooth running of Community midwifery care provision.
3. Oversee rostering, appraisals, annual leave requests and other HR related duties for the Community Midwifery Team.
4. Work closely with Specialist midwives (e.g. mental health midwife, safeguarding, diabetes) to ensure good communication pathways to share information about service users whose needs span more than one specialty.
Job responsibilities
1. Assess, identify and evaluate own knowledge and practice needs in relation to knowledge and skills required to meet the demand of the role.
2. Understand the team member's role and scope of practice. Identify development needs and take responsibility for their continuing professional development and performance.
3. Make effective use of appropriate learning opportunities for others.
4. Act as a role model and support professional development of all students and junior staff.
5. Exercise effective managerial and clinical leadership of the team.
6. Support the implementation of induction programmes, preceptorship and PMA input.
7. Responsible for organisation and operational management of community teams.
8. Responsible for day to day line management of band 5/6 midwives and maternity support workers/care assistants.
9. Responsible for day to day supervision, allocation and co-ordination of clinically based teams ensuring adequate cover and skill mix for the 24/7 period.
10. Ensure team members attend statutory and mandatory training days.
11. Work as part of the Manager On Call rota.
Person Specification
Experience
* BSc or relevant experience.
* Leadership qualification or relevant experience.
* Proven experience in a variety of midwifery settings.
* Further training/qualifications relevant to the post (example: managerial/leadership qualifications; high-risk midwifery post reg modules).
* Community Midwifery experience.
* Audit and Research experience.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
* Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues.
* Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).
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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