Home Birth Team Leader

Barts Health NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust in East London is seeking an experienced midwife to join the homebirth team at Whipps Cross hospital in a full-time role (37.5 hours per week). You will develop leadership skills, coordinate the team’s caseload, and support band 6 midwives to deliver high-quality care for healthy women choosing home birth.

You will lead with compassion, communicate effectively within the MDT, ensure safe staffing, and drive continuous service improvements to uphold patient safety and

Qualifications

• Experienced midwife with leadership experience
• Ability to coordinate a caseload and lead a homebirth team
• Effective communication within a multidisciplinary team

Responsibilities

• Lead the homebirth team and support band 6 midwives as needed
• Coordinate overall caseload for the team
• Provide comprehensive midwifery care in partnership with women and MDT
• Ensure safe staffing and resources for homebirth services
• Promote service improvement and optimal use of available resources
• Deliver clinical midwifery care as required

Job description

Are you ready for your next career move and to utilise your leadership skills?

Our maternity service at Whipps Cross hospital is provided by a supportive and friendly team dedicated to delivering the highest standard of care to our diverse community in East London.

A great opportunity has risen for an experienced midwife to join and support the homebirth team to develop leadership skills and midwifery expertise.

You will be expected to work full time (37.5 hours/week) and collaboratively with homebirth midwives across Barts Health Maternity inco-ordinating the overall caseload of the team, provide comprehensive support for the band 6 Midwives as necessary.

You will be expected to have strong yet compassionate leadership presence and be able to communicate within the MDT effectively.

Be able to facilitate care for women seeking to birth outside of guidelines and to ensure patient safety is upheld.

Ensure the operational aspect of the team is fulfilled and ensure the service is delivered effectively.

To provide management and leadership to the home birth & normality team. Work collaboratively with the ADoM and Matron to maintain safe staffing for homebirth services.

Promote service improvement and ensure appropriate use of available resources.

As the expert lead, provide support and organisation ensuring a caseloading model of care for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies wishing to give birth at Home.

To provide all aspect of clinical midwifery care including individual plan of care in partnership with the women and the multidisciplinary team as required.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Stella Nwogu Job title: Matron for Low Risk, Screening & Immunisation. Email address: [e-mail]