Labour Ward Manager

Scarborough Teaching Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Harrogate; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

27 days holiday rising to 33 days

Relocation package up to 30% of salary

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

NHS Car Lease & Cycle to Work

Job summary

Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced midwife to lead the Labour Ward. You will provide visible leadership, support operational management, and drive safe, compassionate intrapartum care for women, birthing people and families.

You will work with the Labour Ward Manager in a job-share arrangement, targeting staff development, governance, and continuous service improvement while promoting a positive safety culture across the maternity service.

Qualifications

• Experience leading maternity/ Labour Ward teams.
• Strong leadership skills and commitment to staff development.
• Experience in governance, safety and quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible leadership and operational management of the Labour Ward.
• Contribute to workforce development and safe staffing.
• Support governance, risk management and quality improvement activity.
• Collaborate with obstetric, anaesthetic, neonatal and governance colleagues.

Skills

Leadership

Intrapartum care

Staff development

Education

Band 6/7 midwife

Job description

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced midwife passionate about delivering safe, high-quality intrapartum care and supporting staff to provide outstanding experiences for women, birthing people and their families. Working collaboratively with the existing Labour Ward Manager, you will provide visible leadership and support the effective day-to-day operational management of the Labour Ward and wider maternity service. You will contribute to workforce development, promote a culture of safety, learning and continuous improvement, and ensure women and families receive personalised, compassionate and evidence-based care. As part of our maternity leadership team, you will help drive innovation, staff wellbeing and service improvement. Working in partnership with the existing Labour Ward Manager, you will provide leadership, operational management and strategic oversight of the Labour Ward service. You will support the multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, effective and compassionate intrapartum care, ensuring the safe management of staffing, patient flow, acuity, capacity and resources. The postholder will promote a positive safety culture through governance, risk management, incident review and quality improvement activity, while supporting the recruitment, retention, development and wellbeing of staff. Working collaboratively with obstetric, anaesthetic, neonatal and governance colleagues, you will contribute to service improvement initiatives, implement local and national maternity priorities, and use quality indicators, patient feedback and performance data to drive continuous improvement. As a visible and approachable leader, you will role model Trust values and professional standards, supporting our culture and improvement plans by listening to women, birthing people and families, developing our workforce, promoting continuous learning, and helping the service meet national standards while shaping the future of maternity care., As part of seeking to become more inclusive, we will consider requests for flexible working from the start of your employment. It may not be suitable for every role, but we will try and be supportive where we can. We would encourage you to speak to the recruiting manager named within this advert to discuss any requirements you may have.

We are seeking an experienced, motivated and compassionate midwifery leader to join our Labour Ward leadership team at Scarborough Hospital as a Labour Ward Managerin a job share arrangement., This role is ideal for an experienced Band 6 or Band 7 midwife with strong leadership skills, a passion for intrapartum care and a commitment to developing teams and improving services within a supportive job share arrangement.

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Our benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)
• A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully. If you would like to discuss a potential relocation package, please speak to the recruiting department/manager.
• A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave
• Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
• NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
• An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers

For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages. To find out more about our Maternity department please visit the following link: https://yorkhospitals.pagetiger.com/dpfhpfi/1

This is an exciting time to join our maternity teams across York and Scarborough. Following our recent CQC inspection, maternity services at both York and Scarborough were rated Goodacross all five domains-Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led. This achievement reflects the dedication, compassion and professionalism of our workforce, and our commitment to listening to women, families and colleagues to continually improve the care we provide. You will be joining a service that has made significant progress and is proud of what has been achieved, while recognising there is still more to do.

We are committed to continuous learning, innovation and improvement, building on strong foundations to shape the future of maternity care across our Trust. This is an opportunity to be part of that journey-joining a forward-looking team that values collaboration, ambition and the voices of women, families and staff as we continue to develop and strengthen our services for the future.

A full description of the role is available in the attachment: job description.

Working for the Trust Across our organisation, people are guided by values that were co-developed with staff: we are kind; we are open; and we pursue excellence.