Continuity Team Leader

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; Farnham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Farnham is seeking an experienced midwife to join their maternity services as a band 7. The role involves providing clinical supervisory support to midwives, ensuring high-quality care for women and their families. Candidates should be passionate about continuity of care and have strong organisational skills. The position requires working in both community and hospital settings, including night duties and on-call commitments.

Benefits

Comprehensive health and wellbeing program

Professional development opportunities

Investment in physical environment and equipment

Qualifications

• Need to be passionate about continuity of care.
• Ability to maintain safe provision of care for women.
• Experience in both community and hospital settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical supervisory support to midwives.
• Maintain a 24-hour maternity service.
• Supervise junior staff and teach students.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical supervision

Organisational skills

Teaching abilities

Education

Registered Midwife

Relevant clinical experience

Job description

The role will be part clinical to support the team rota and provide clinical supervisory support to midwives to realise their full potential as autonomous practitioners placing women, babies and their families at the centre of care on a continuity of care pathway.

The post holder will work closely with the Senior Team in maternity services and work collaboratively with specialist midwives, the obstetric team, health visitors and GP practices to further develop pathways so that services are responsive to the needs of women and families.

The women and their families' experience of our services will be dependent on high quality, effective and customer focused care and the post holder will ensure that care provided is in keeping with the Trust's vision and values.

Maintenance of a twenty-four hour maternity service for women and participate in on-call commitments as required. The post-holder will be required to work in both the community and the hospital across a 7 day service including night duties.

The post-holder is expected to supervise junior staff and to be able to teach qualified and unqualified staff, including basic and/or post-basic students.

About the Role

The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic midwife to join our innovative and award winning maternity service. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 position to provide leadership to ensure effective management of a case loading team.

This post holder will need to be passionate about the provision of continuity of carer, be highly organised with an ability to maintain safe provision of care for women within the team. This will include reviewing clinic capacity, activity and staffing and supporting the clinical provision of care in a case loading model.

About Us

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years.