Community Midwifery Team Leader: Lead High-Quality Care

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Isleworth; Presencial; GBP 43.000 - 52.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced midwife to lead a community midwifery team, delivering antenatal, postnatal and intrapartum care at home where appropriate. The Band 7 Team Leader will provide compassionate leadership, clinical guidance and oversight to ensure safe, high-quality maternity care for families in the community.

The role emphasizes autonomous practice, teaching and developing staff, managing rosters, and responding to daily activity

Responsabilidades

• Have delegated responsibility for 24-hr cover within the community midwifery service. This includes formulating rosters to ensure adequate and appropriate cover and when required, liaising with and deploying staff on a shift by shift basis according to service need.
• Monitor the activity within your designated team and across the service on a daily basis and manage high activity and staffing issues as required.
• Be an autonomous practitioner providing clinical leadership and expertise in all aspects of midwifery practice, which includes providing direct care to women.
• Delegate clinical tasks to staff members on duty as appropriate e.g. care of complex cases, routine checking of equipment.
• Facilitate the development of all staff including student midwives, junior medical staff and support workers through evidence-based teaching and empowerment.
• Assess, develop, implement and evaluate the highest standards of care based on evidenced-based practice.
• Promote the physiology of the birth process through supporting both women and staff.

Descripción del empleo

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced midwife to lead a community midwifery team, delivering antenatal, postnatal and intrapartum care at home where appropriate. The Band 7 Team Leader will provide compassionate leadership, clinical guidance and oversight to ensure safe, high-quality maternity care for families in the community.

The role emphasizes autonomous practice, teaching and developing staff, managing rosters, and responding to daily activity