Community Team Leader

NHS Jobs; Bedford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced midwife to provide leadership across community maternity services. You will oversee midwives and support staff, promoting safe, compassionate, evidence-based care and enabling teams to deliver high-quality services.

The role includes direct line management, staff development, and collaboration with maternity colleagues to optimise staffing and care pathways.

Qualifications

• Registered midwife with ongoing practice and regulatory compliance.
• Proven experience in community midwifery and homebirth settings is desirable.
• Experience in leadership, management and staff development.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical, professional, educational and managerial leadership to midwives and support staff in the community.
• Undertake direct line management and staff development, promoting professional skills.
• Lead staffing and skill-mix reviews to ensure safe, compassionate maternity care.
• Promote safe, evidence-based care and partnership working across maternity services.
• Contribute to on-call rota and escalation pathways for homebirth services.
• Identify and manage risks, investigations and learning from events.
• Foster a culture of safety, quality improvement and learning.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Line management

Maternity care

Partnership working

Education

NMC registered midwife

Job description

The Job Description and Person Specification are attached to this job, please review for the full details and responsibilities Provide soundclinical, professional, educational and managerial leadership to midwives and support staff working within the community setting. Provide consistent, visible leadership, creating a supportive environment that enables staff to make effective decisions and deliver high-quality care. Undertake direct line management responsibilities, supporting staff development and encouraging colleagues to develop their professional, clinical and communication skills. Act as a positive professional role model, promoting appropriate professional standards and effective partnership working. Ensure community services are appropriately staffed, identify inappropriate staffing levels or skill mix and take appropriate remedial action. Take responsibility, alongside the Community Matron, for the organisation of midwifery caseloads allocated to community teams. Promote the delivery of safe, compassionate, evidence-based and individualised maternity care to women, babies and their families across care settings and provide up-to-date professional advice in accordance with relevant professional standards. Provide clinical support within all aspects of maternity services when required. Participate in the community on-call rota, supporting the homebirth service and escalation pathways. Promote a culture in whichsafety, quality improvement and learning are embedded within everyday practice. Ensure clinical risks are identified and reported through the appropriate clinical risk reporting framework, commence appropriate investigations and monitor outcomes and lessons learned. Proactively contribute to the development and improvement of community midwifery pathways. Work collaboratively with colleagues across maternity services to support safe and effective care. Build effective professional relationships and promote partnership working across community and maternity services.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust