Labour Ward Coordinator

North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A health organization in the UK is seeking a Labour Ward Coordinator to lead clinical maternity services in Tees Valley. The role involves managing the Delivery Suite, ensuring high standards of maternity care, and providing leadership and expertise in Intrapartum care. The ideal candidate will be a committed senior midwife with strong leadership skills and a focus on delivering quality patient care. Competitive salary offered ranging from £47,810 to £54,710 pro rata annually.

Benefits

Inclusive workplace initiatives

Opportunities for professional development

Staff recognition programs

Qualifications

• Registered practising Midwife NMC registered.
• NLS trained or willing to work towards.
• Demonstrate clinical credibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical maternity services on Delivery Suite.
• Ensure high safe standards are maintained.
• Demonstrate expertise in Intrapartum care.

Skills

Midwifery experience

Leadership

Communication

Education

Degree in Midwifery

Masters in related subject

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

*Advert may close early if sufficient volume of applications is reached*

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Labour Ward Coordinator on Delivery Suite to lead clinical maternity services here at North Tee's. We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed senior midwife with strong leadership skills to join our team. The role involves having continuing responsibility for the shift management and provision of maternity care within the Delivery Suite, ensuring high safe standards are maintained at all times. Show expertise and leadership in Intrapartum care, continuing to develop and manage practice and actively participate in achieving the Maternity Services and Trust's objectives.

Main duties of the job

The role involves having continuing responsibility for the shift management and provision of maternity care within the Delivery Suite and across the maternity service, ensuring high safe standards are maintained at all times. Show expertise and leadership in Intrapartum care, continuing to develop and manage practice and actively participate in achieving the Maternity Services and Trust's objectives. To ensure that safe competent services are provided on a continuous basis with particular focus on leadership and expertise for each shift, communication effectively with the Delivery Suite Matron, Antenatal/Postnatal Matron, MAU Matron, Community Midwifery Matron and Senior Clinical Matron to ensure that resources utilised are effective and efficient, providing strong leadership at all-times. Demonstrate clinical expertise and leadership at all times, through shift responsibility for the management of intrapartum care in Delivery Suite/ Birthing Centre. Provide midwifery expertise, advice, skills, leadership and support at a senior level to all midwives within the Maternity Services.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust now form University Hospitals Tees and as such you may be required to work at any site across both Trusts.

At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition - a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.

We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

We recruit for values and "Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool"

Job responsibilities

Please see attached detailed Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the Labour Ward Coordinator role.

Person Specification

Experience

• In depth experience in midwifery practise.
• Experience dealing with patient concerns or complaints

Qualifications

• Registered practising Midwife NMC registered
• Degree in Midwifery
• NLS trained or be willing to work towards
• Masters in related subject
• Leadership and management experience/ qualification.

Knowledge

• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Demonstrate clinical credibility
• Effective analytical and reflective skills
• Microsoft office/ Internet/ Teams
• Child protection. policies and procedures
• Government initiatives and public health agenda

Skills and Attributes

• Non-judgemental style Motivated and proactive.
• Willing to take ownership and accountability.
• Team player but also able to work autonomously and prioritise own workload.
• Flexible to the needs of the service
• Committed to woman centred approach.
• Able to deal with sensitivity to difficult conversations and situations.
• Assertive and able to escalate concerns within department.

Management/ Supervision

• Managerial experience

Communication

• Ability to work independently and as part of a wider MDT team.

Finance and Physical resources

• Effective time management
• Must be flexible and adaptable to meet the needs of the service.

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.

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearpro rata per annum