Labour ward Coordinator/flow Coordinator/bleep holder

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Greater London is seeking a Labour Ward Coordinator to lead a team of midwives and support staff. The successful candidate will ensure high-quality care for women and babies, promote teamwork, and foster professional development within the Maternity Unit. Candidates should have substantial midwifery experience, leadership skills, and a strong understanding of current maternity practices. A competitive salary is offered with additional benefits.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife on the live NMC Register.
• Must have experience leading and managing a team.
• Autonomous practice in acute and primary care settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality, safe services in the Maternity Unit.
• Ensure clinical leadership across the maternity unit.
• Act as a host to service users and raise the profile of the Trust.

Skills

Leadership

Change management

Evidence-based practice promotion

IT skills

Team collaboration

Education

Registered Midwife

Diploma/Degree in Midwifery

Professional Midwifery Advocate

Specialist clinical training

Master or working towards

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Labour ward Coordinator/flow Coordinator/bleep holder

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 maintain a positive learning environment in order to maximise the full potential of staff and help achieve the national targets for maternity.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. 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. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification

It is anticipated that the post holder will have effective visionary leadership and efficient experience as would be necessary to underpin changing practice. The post holder will be expected to rotate throughout the Maternity Unit and including night duty and on calls as deemed necessary to provide an integrated maternity service and ensure competence in all areas of midwifery practice.

The post holder will act as a host to women, birthing people and their families using the service and raise positively the profile of Whittington Health

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• Registered Midwife on the live NMC Register.
• Diploma/Degree in Midwifery
• Diploma/Degree in Midwifery
• Professional Midwifery Advocate
• Evidence of professional accountability via professional portfolio
• Specialist clinical training
• Master or Working towards

Skills & Abilities

• Experience and evidence to be able to lead, manage and supervise staff, delegating work appropriately and develop a team and act as a role model
• Experience and evidence to demonstrate ability to influence and manage change, including the promotion of evidence-based practice
• Evidence and experience in setting and monitoring standards of care on a labour ward
• Must be able to practice in all areas in accordance with the Midwives rules and code of conduct
• Be able to practice as an autonomous midwife in the acute and primary care setting Able to prioritize workload appropriately
• Excellent IT skills and a knowledge of Microsoft word, email, excel and PowerPoint

Knowledge & Experience

• Significant experience at a senior management/ clinical level 5 years
• Experience in working in areas of all midwifery practice. Champion for midwifery led care .
• Provide evidence of continuous personal and professional development .
• Have sound knowledge of changing trends within Maternity Services
• Be conversant with current professional issues in relation to midwifery and Key performance indicators
• Comprehension of current midwifery practice Can demonstrate application and implementation of theory to practice . Experience of participating in clinical governance initiatives
• Experience of change management
• Experience of working with service users Experience of undertaking CQC inspections

Personal Qualities

• Commitment to the organisation
• Demonstrate effective interpersonal and communication skills within difficult or challenging circumstances and able to deal with difficult people and management of HR issues
• Demonstrate ability to work effectively and collaboratively as part of a multi -disciplinary team
• Demonstrates a sensitive approach to the needs of the women and their families
• Demonstrates an understanding of the dynamics of working with a team
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, innovative, assertive
• Problem solver, analytical approach

Other

• Willing to work in all areas
• 24 hour rotation including participating in on call Rota
• Good sickness and absence records

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.

£56,276 to £63,176 a yearPer Annum Including HCAS