Labour ward Coordinator/flow Coordinator

Whittington Health NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in London is seeking a midwife to provide clinical leadership and manage a team of midwives and support workers. The role requires creating a positive learning environment and ensuring high-quality, evidence-based care for women and babies across all maternity practices. The midwife will work autonomously, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to meet individual needs and achieve national maternity targets.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical leadership within maternity care.
• Ability to work autonomously within professional guidelines.
• Skills to liaise with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and management of a midwifery team.
• Create and maintain a positive learning environment.
• Ensure safe, high-quality service in maternity practices.

Job description

The post holder will provide clinical leadership, facilitate professional development and carry continuing overall responsibility for the management and co-ordination of a team of midwives, students and support workers of a designated clinical area. The midwife will work as part of the multidisciplinary team, liaising with professionals who impact on the care and management of clients, creating and maintaining a positive learning environment in order to maximise the full potential of staff and help achieve the national targets for maternity. To provide women and babies with a high quality, safe service in a variety of practice settings within the Maternity Unit, throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods that is effectively and efficiently within available resources, as well as contribute to the delivery of the organisation's objectives. The care will be evidence based and holistic in meeting women and birthing people's individual needs and the midwife will be expected to work autonomously within the guidelines and sphere of professional practice. The post holder is to ensure the provision of a consistently high level of clinical leadership across the maternity unit 24/7 and promote a unit-wide multidisciplinary team working philosophy.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

Safeguarding Children and Adults

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct.