Lead Midwife- Triage

Esneft; Colchester; Hybride; GBP 45 000 - 60 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

ESNEFT is seeking an experienced Midwife to join our Maternity Triage team, working full time across Colchester and Ipswich Hospital sites. This leadership role focuses on clinical excellence, service development and improving the experience of women and birthing people accessing maternity services.

You will provide visible clinical leadership, drive standards, patient flow and quality improvement, and empower colleagues to deliver outstanding care.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in maternity care preferred.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience in QA and service development preferred.

Responsabilités

• Provide visible clinical leadership to Maternity Triage teams across Colchester and Ipswich Hospital sites.
• Drive clinical standards, patient flow, risk management and quality improvement.
• Develop and evaluate programmes of care; support staff development and workforce planning.
• Liaise with partner agencies to ensure safe staffing and high-quality care.

Description du poste

We are seeking an experienced, motivated and dynamic Midwife to join our Maternity Triage team, working full time across our two hospital sites.

This is an exciting leadership opportunity for an experienced midwife with a passion for clinical excellence, service development and improving the experience of women and birthing people accessing maternity services.

You will provide visible clinical leadership and professional support to the Maternity Triage teams, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and responsive care. You will lead on clinical standards, patient flow, risk management, quality improvement and the development of the service, while supporting and empowering colleagues to deliver outstanding care.

The postholder will lead and support the delivery of Maternity Triage in line with BSOTS (Birmingham Symptom-specific Obstetric Triage System) standards, ensuring consistent, timely and evidence-based assessment, prioritisation and escalation of care across both hospital sites

We are looking for an inspirational leader with excellent clinical decision-making, communication and organisational skills, who can drive improvements, support staff development and promote a positive culture across both sites.

If you are passionate about leading high-quality maternity triage services and making a real difference to women, families and colleagues, we would love to hear from you!

The postholder will be responsible for the day to day running of the Maternity Triage service at both Colchester and Ipswich Hospital. The postholder has continuing responsibility for the assessment, implementation and evaluation of programs of care, ensuring that safe standards of care are maintained and for the smooth day to day running of the ward within the allocated resources. The role encompasses liaison with other agencies and the management, teaching, support and empowerment of junior and newly qualified midwives and healthcare assistants. The postholder will take ‘Bleep Holding’ responsibility on a rotational basis with other colleagues where the service requires to ensure safe staffing and safe standards of care within allocated resources.

Working at ESNEFT

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Sponsorship Eligibility

To comply with UK Government regulations on sponsorship we are unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold. Full guidance on sponsorship can be found Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK

Notes

Please note that where response levels are exceptional we may close the post before the specified date, therefore early application is recommended.

In line with AfC Terms and Conditions new entrants to NHS will commence on the entry level of the salary