Band 7 Labour Ward Coordinator

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Job summary

Join a leading healthcare trust as a Band 7 Labour Ward Coordinator. You will provide key clinical leadership in maternity services, ensuring excellence in patient care and team management. This full-time role offers a competitive salary, professional development opportunities, and the chance to work within an innovative healthcare environment in London.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Generous benefits

Next level training

Qualifications

• Verify your R.M credential and commitment to professional development.
• Experience in consultant-led units focusing on normality in midwifery.
• Knowledge of NMC Midwives Rules and Clinical Governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical and managerial functions in the maternity defined area.
• Coordinate the team delivering antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal services.
• Manage sickness absence and team performance.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Communication

Team management

Risk assessment

Education

R.M

Evidence of continuing professional development

Job description

Main area Maternity Services Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (shift work including weekends and bank holidays) Job ref 391-RFL-7188427

Employer Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Free Hospital Town London Salary £54,320 - £60,981 per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 26/06/2025 23:59

Band 7 Labour Ward Coordinator

Band 7

Job overview

• Provide clinical and managerial leadership in the midwifery defined area or team
• Co-ordinate the team to provide antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal services to
women within clinical area/geographical boundary
• Provide skilled clinical advice and professional leadership to the midwifery
team/defined area, liaising with the multidisciplinary team
•Working with line managers, act as a key player in leading change in practice,
providing high quality maternity care within the available resources
• Carry out risk assessments in the hospital, birth centres and community settings and
safely manage obstetric and neonatal emergencies including emergency situations
when medical help is not available.
• Lead on the management of sickness absence and team performance within own
area/defined team.
• Be responsible for leading cohesive working and communication practices amongst
own team and wider multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced midwife to join our senior midwifery team at the Royal Free London Trust as a band 7 on the labour ward.

The successful candidate will be placed on the Royal Free site Hampstead Site.

The successful candidate will work as a senior midwife/ labour ward coordinator and act as the bleep holder in the absence of the matron.

The post holder needs to be a clinically sound, experienced midwife with excellent communication skills to lead and support midwives to realise their full potential as autonomous practitioners placing women and their families at the centre of care planning.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust serves a diverse population in North London within easy access of all modes of transport.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top
For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Person specification

Qualifications

• R.M
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Willingness to undertake NIPE

Experience

• Previous experience of working in a consultant led unit and environment where ‘normality in midwifery’ is the main focus (MLC) unit. Minimum introduction to IV cannulations, suturing, scrubbing in theatre, epidural top ups, resuscitation of new born.
• Previous experience working as a midwife/Band 6. Previous experience working in a community setting.

Knowledge

• Ability to evaluate midwifery care.
• Ability to relate NMC Midwives Rules, Code of Practice, The Scope of Professional Practice, Standards for the Administration of Medicines
• Able to use appropriate language according to circumstances
• Legible, literate, grammatically accurate
• Able to work well within a team.
• Ability to use own initiative
• Ability to prioritise own workload
• Ability to manage junior staff
• Have knowledge of the Public Health Agenda
• Ability to educate parents and students
• Ability to undertake all midwifery duties within the relevant clinical area.
• IT literate
• knowledge of Clinical Governance
• Knowledge of current maternity strategy
• Polite, reliable, honest, punctual, approachable, dependable, non-judgemental
• Ability to adapt to new working practices
• Ability to remain calm under pressure
• Ability to deal calmly and courteously with difficult people
• Adaptable and flexible approach to working within the Unit.
• Full commitment to the job
• Able to meet the practical requirements of the post. i.e. cross site shift patterns

Values

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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