Homebirth Team Leader

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Integrated Care System is seeking an experienced midwife to join their homebirth team in London. This full-time role includes caring for a diverse caseload of women, supporting midwives, and ensuring patient safety during home births. Candidates should demonstrate strong leadership and excellent communication skills, and have relevant experience in homebirth or a birth centre environment. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from £53,751 to £60,651 per year, coupled with opportunities for professional development and flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership presence and effective communication.
• Ability to perform clinical midwifery procedures and manage obstetric emergencies.
• Basic computer literacy and ability to handle sensitive data.

Responsibilities

• Care for a caseload of 18+ women per year for antenatal and postnatal care.
• Co-ordinate the overall caseload and provide support for other midwives.
• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based midwifery care across all settings.

Skills

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Empathetic communication

Organisational skills

Education

Relevant experience in Homebirth or Birth Centre Environment

Practice Supervisor/ Assessor qualification

Job description

A great opportunity for an experienced midwife to come and support the homebirth team and increase leadership skills and midwifery expertise.The role is full time and includes 8-10 overnight on calls per month. Car driver is desired but not essential.

The candidate will be expected to:

o Care for a caseload of 18+ women per year for antenatal and postnatal care and be able to provide senior intrapartum skills in the home environment.o Co-ordinate the overall caseload of the team, and provide comprehensive support for the band 6 Midwives, where needed.o Have strong leadership presence and be able to communicate within the MDT effectively.o Be able to facilitate care for women seeking to birth outside of guidelines and to ensure patient safety is upheld.o To ensure the operational aspect of the team is fulfilled and ensure the service is delivered effectively.

Main duties of the job

To give high quality, safe , evidence based, holistic midwifery care to women in all maternity care settings including antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care as well as parent education. To provide continuity of care and carer in partnership with the women and the multidisciplinary team as required. To ensure midwifery care and support provided is personalised to meet the individual needs of the woman.

About us

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

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

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.

Job responsibilities

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Relevant experience in a Homebirth or Birth Centre Environment
• Practice Supervisor/ Assessor
• Examination of the newborn
• Skills in alternative therapies to support women such as aromatherapy.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels across the Department and Directorate
• The ability to communicate with patients in an empathetic manner regarding their treatment and procedures.
• Can demonstrate an enthusiastic, approachable and friendly manner
• Ability communicate effectively, both written and oral
• Ability to demonstrate enthusiasm towards teaching and sharing knowledge
• Ability to demonstrate enthusiasm towards teaching and sharing knowledge
• Ability to self reflect, carry out tasks of own job and identify what s/he needs to learn to able to do current job better
• Ability to take an active role in agreed learning activities and keeps a record of them
• Good organisational skills; able to work effectively under pressure and to identified and work successfully towards deadlines

Health, safety and security

• Acts in a way that is consistent with legislation, policies and procedures and abide by the Trust Health and Safety policies
• Ability to support others in maintaining health, safety and security
• Ability to identify and assess the potential risks involved in work activities and processes for self and others

Quality

• Ability to work within set timeframes working to priorities and deadlines
• Able to recognise own limits and work within those limits of competence
• Ability to monitor the quality of own work
• Ability to use and maintain resources efficiently and effectively and encourage others to do so
• Experience of clinical governance activities within maternity services

Enablement to address health and wellbeing needs

• Ability to carry out essential and appropriate Midwifery care and procedures including dealing with obstetric emergencies and suturing
• Able to use basic Adult and neonatal resuscitation skills

Information, collection and analysis

• Can prove a basic computer literacy in Windows and IT systems
• Ability to store data/ information safely and correctly

Specific requirements

• Ability to work flexible hours to meet service requirements including on call commitments

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£53,751 to £60,651 a yearper annum inc (pay reward pending)