The Senior Midwife in the Antenatal Clinic will lead and oversee midwifery services, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based care for expectant mothers and their families. This role involves providing comprehensive antenatal care, coordinating complex cases, managing clinic workflows, and supporting junior staff development. The Senior Midwife will also play a key role in interdisciplinary collaboration to deliver person-centred care tailored to each patient's medical, emotional, and social needs.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide skilled and compassionate antenatal care, including routine assessments, screenings, and consultations. Manage complex cases, ensuring continuity of care.
2. Supervise and mentor midwives and support staff, fostering professional growth and a positive clinic environment. Allocate resources and staff schedules to optimize patient care and clinic efficiency.
3. Empower and educate expectant mothers on pregnancy, birth preparation, and postpartum care. Offer guidance on lifestyle, nutrition, mental health, and physical health throughout pregnancy.
4. Identify, assess, and manage potential risks during pregnancy. Escalate complex cases to obstetricians and other specialists as needed, ensuring timely and appropriate interventions.
5. Develop, implement, and monitor clinical protocols to meet regulatory standards and improve patient outcomes. Conduct audits, maintain accurate records, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
6. Work closely with obstetricians, paediatricians, social workers, and other healthcare professionals to create coordinated care plans, especially for high-risk pregnancies.
7. Advocate for patient choices and informed consent, respecting cultural, personal, and medical preferences. Address concerns and ensure a positive clinic experience.
About us
Our 7,500 staff are recruited from local communities and around the world. Our staff rate us second among acute trusts in London as a place to work. Despite challenges in the NHS, our low staff vacancy rate remains significantly better than the national average. We are passionate about the health and wellbeing of our staff with a huge support offer, including our nationally-recognised free back-up care scheme and Timewise accreditation as a flexible employer. We love to develop our people, offering a range of development programmes and apprenticeships, with our healthcare support worker apprentices winning Apprentice of the Year for two years running. We offer a fantastic range of salary sacrifice schemes, from season ticket loans, bicycles and vehicles, to gym memberships, home electronics and holidays.
Job responsibilities
1. Promote a friendly and welcome atmosphere for both team members and patients. Be courteous, helpful and supportive to patients and staff at all times maintaining the values and behaviours ethos within the Trust.
2. To co-ordinate the clinical activities within the antenatal clinic.
3. Participate in meeting government activity targets.
4. To inform the Midwifery Matron about conditions in the clinic and to ensure that appropriate use is made of midwifery and medical time. Plan and compile duty rotas to ensure appropriate use of midwifery resource.
5. Deputise for the antenatal Matron as required and support in the Leadership and management of the antenatal maternity services.
6. To arrange and develop orientation programmes which familiarise new members of staff with the organisation and clinical demands of the antenatal clinic. Implement individual performance reviews of staff within the antenatal clinic.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
* Registered Midwife
* Evidence of post-registration education
* Degree or relevant experience
* Teaching or mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
* Substantial recent experience of working as a Registered Midwife
* Experience of working in a busy Antenatal Clinic setting
* Experience of working across a variety of midwifery settings
Desirable
* Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
* Evidence of delivering high quality teaching to staff groups
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Ability to work autonomously & independently
* Management and leadership skills, including an ability to prioritise own work effectively and being able to direct activities of others
* Ability to recognize the contribution of members of the MDT
Employer details
Employer name
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
369 Fulham Road
London
SW10 9NH
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