Home Birth Team Leader

Barts Health Nhs Trust; Walthamstow; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking an experienced midwife to lead and support the Homebirth team, providing expert midwifery care for healthy women choosing home birth. This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week) with caseload coordination and MDT collaboration to ensure safe, high-quality care.

You will work with the ADOM and Matron to maintain safe staffing and drive service improvement, upholding our WeCare values in east London and beyond.

Job description

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.