Director of Midwifery

Medway NHS Foundation Trust; Brompton; Vor Ort; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

The Director of Midwifery at Medway NHS Foundation Trust provides strategic professional leadership for midwifery and the maternity and neonatal pathway, reporting to the Chief Nursing Officer and advising the Board on safety, quality, experience and workforce.

They work with senior leaders to set the direction for integrated maternity services across hospital, community and system settings, ensuring safe, compassionate and equitable care for women, babies and families.

Qualifikationen

• Registered midwife with current UK registration.
• Experience leading midwifery and maternity services at system level.
• Demonstrated ability to influence safety, quality and workforce improvements.

Aufgaben

• Provide strategic professional leadership for midwifery across the Trust.
• Advise the Board and Executive on safety, quality, experience and equity.
• Drive integrated maternity and neonatal improvement with system partners.

Kenntnisse

Clinical leadership

Strategic leadership

Policy advisory

Stakeholder engagement

Ausbildung

Registered Midwife

Jobbeschreibung

The Director of Midwifery is the Trust's most senior registered midwife and providesindependent, authoritative professional leadership for midwifery and the maternity andneonatal pathway, working jointly with the Divisional Director of Nursing for Children andYoung People. Reporting directly to the Chief Nursing Officer, the post holder is accountablefor advising the Board and Executive team on safety, quality, experience, equity, workforce,professional standards and strategic development across hospital, community and systemsettings.

Working as an equal member of the perinatal quadrumvirate with the Divisional Medical Director, Divisional Director of Operations and Divisional Director of Nursing for Children and Young People, or designated senior neonatal leader, the post holder will work with the Chief Nursing Officer to set the strategic direction for integrated maternity and neonatal improvement. They will provide strategic professional leadership and assurance for midwifery services across the Trust and influence the wider system so that women, babies and families, receive safe, personalised, compassionate and equitable care and concerns raised by families and staff are heard, acted upon and never obscured by hierarchy, reputation or operational pressure.

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest of Careby the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our sharedvisionis achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy -Patient First.Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into ourPatient Firstdeployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

OurBESTvalues underpinPatient Firstand are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach