Are you a looking for a challenge?
Do you want to lead, develop and support a team in a busy ward 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 Postnatal Ward Manager to continue to develop our Postnatal Service.
The successful candidate will have significant experience, including recent postnatal care, as a Registered Midwife. As a Postnatal 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 postnatal 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 patient flow across the unit.
• Interview Date: Friday 7 March 2025
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
• To provide expert clinical advice in relation to the leadership, management and education of Postnatal Midwives and Maternity Support Workers.
• Management of the postnatal 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 Postnatal 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 postnatal pathway.
• Continuous monitoring of patient experience and harm free care.
• Assisting in the budget management for the ward.
• 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.
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
• Cramlington Manor Walks
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.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
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• Works autonomously within NMC, Trust and Directorate Guidelines to provide care as related to postnatal 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.
• Work with the transitional care team in supporting mothers who have babies requiring transitional care
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 month’s 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.
This advert closes on Thursday 27 Feb 2025
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