Labour Ward Manager

National health service; Thirsk; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

National health service in Scarborough is seeking an experienced Labour Ward Manager to join the Labour Ward leadership team in a job-share arrangement. The role focuses on delivering safe, high-quality intrapartum care and supporting staff to provide compassionate experiences for women and families.

You will work with the existing Labour Ward Manager to provide visible leadership, oversee day-to-day operations, workforce development and drive service improvements across maternity services.

Qualifications

• Essential leadership and management experience in maternity services.
• Strong communication across levels within the Trust.
• Ability to analyse complex problems and implement practical solutions.
• Proven leadership and influencing skills to enthuse teams.
• Good organisational skills and resource management.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, operational management and strategic oversight of the Labour Ward service.
• Support multidisciplinary team to deliver safe intrapartum care and optimal staffing, flow, acuity and resources.
• Promote governance, risk management and quality improvement activity.
• Contribute to workforce development and staff wellbeing.
• Drive service improvement initiatives and implement maternity priorities using performance data.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Organisation

Resource management

Education

Registered midwife

Practice Supervisor/Assessor

Leadership qualification

Job description

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced, motivated and compassionate midwifery leader to join our Labour Ward leadership team at Scarborough Hospital as a Labour Ward Manager in a job share arrangement.

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

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.

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 Good across 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 journeyjoining 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.

Our values play into our ambition to develop a more diverse workforce, truly representative of our communities. We welcome applications from everyone, while working with our Staff Networks - including our Race Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability and Carers Networks - to increase the number of applications we receive from different backgrounds. If there is anything we can do to make our application process more accessible to you, please contact:

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.

Armed Forces Friendly Employer

We are holders of the Gold Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britains Reservists and Employers. This means that we have made a statement of intent to support all Defence personnel, including with applications for employment.

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.

Person Specification

Experience and Knowledge Required

• Essential Substantial experience in a leadership, management or senior coordinating role within maternity services.
• Experience of leading change and implementing service developments within multidisciplinary teams.
• Recent experience of audit
• Experience of leading clinical teams within a busy and changing environment.

Desirable

• Experience of managing complaints
• Experience of managing sickness and absence
• Experience of participation in areas of clinical governance and risk assessments

Education, Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Registered midwife
• Practice Supervisor and/or Practice Assessor qualification or equivalent.

Desirable

• Leadership qualification
• Examination of the Newborn qualification
• Masters degree

Skills & Attributes

Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels across the Department, Division and Trust
• Proven ability to analyse complex problems and to develop and successfully implement practical and workable solutions to address them
• Evidence of effective leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust and your performance expectations
• Good organisational skills, including ability to prioritise workload
• Effective management of all resources

UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

About us

To find out more about what it is like to work for our Trust please visit the following link:

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.